Plaintiff
S.C. ROMTELECOM S.A.

Respondent
S.C. RCS & RDS S.A.

Date of filing the complaint 
November 13, 2006

Description

On November 13, 2006, S.C. Romtelecom S.A. filed a complaint with  the National Regulatory Authority for Communications (On December 29, 2006, following the dissolving of ANRC, the mission, objectives and attributions of this public institution were passed on to the National Regulatory Authority for Communications and Information Technology, as an universal legal heir, on grounds of the provisions of the Government Emergency Ordinance no. 134/2006 on the establishment of the National Regulatory Authority for Communications and Information Technology), against S.C. RCS & RDS S.A., thereby requiring that the respondent be obliged to charge, for the service of interconnection in view of terminating, on its own network, the calls originated on the Romtelecom network, differentiated tariffs, based on the network architecture, as well as that these tariffs be established based on the reciprocity principle. The petition was registered with ANRC under no. 6/208188/13.11.2006. For the settlement of this dispute, the plaintiff chose the contentious procedure.

On December 12, 2006, RCS & RDS submitted, by the message registered with ANRC under no. 6/323222/12.12.2006, an answer to the complaint, as well as a counter claim. In the counter claim, the respondent requested ANRC to establish that the plaintiff had billed services outside the scope of Romtelecom’s Reference Offer for Interconnection (hereinafter referred to as the RIO), to assess these services , to set out corresponding tariffs and to provide for the cancellation of invoice no. 8285952 of August 10, 2006, issued by Romtelecom.

ANRC Solution

ANRC President’s Decision no.244/2008