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ANNUAL REPORT 2010 ANNUAL REPORT 2010 2 Article 9 of the Rules of Organisation and Procedure of the National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications, approved by Decision no.357/22.05.2009, provides the following:: “Art.9. – (1) ANCOM shall publish on its own website, no later than the 30th of r April each year, a detailed report regarding its activity during the previous year.” r ANNUAL REPORT 2010 3 The National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications is the institution which establishes the rules for the Romanian communications market and watches their enforcement. Our mission is to arbitrate the communications market in order to ensure a sustainable competition, to the users’ benefit. In our activity we pursue the following major objectives: promote competition, protect the end-users’ interests, ensure the rational use of scarce resources, encourage effective investment in infrastructure and stimulate innovation. In our regulatory activity, we observe the following principles: necessity, opportunity, proportionality, obligatory character, technological neutrality, transparency, predictability, stability and efficient use of scarce resources. ANNUAL REPORT 2010 4 1 The Romanian regulatory authority for communications 1.1 Mission, vision, values 1.2 Objectives and priorities for 2010 1.3 Prospects for 2011 2 The regulatory activity – protecting the end-users while fostering market growth 3 Competition – the key to sustainable development 4 Enhancing competition through the efficient management of scarce resources 5 Ensuring the regulation efficiency by monitoring and controlling the market 6 Electronic communications and postal services market 7 Communication 8 International relations and projects financed from European funds 9 Management and Human Resources 10 Financial data 11 Abbreviations 12 List of the ANCOM President’s Decisions adopted in 2010 13 Contact 1 The Romanian regulatory authority for communications ANNUAL REPORT 2010 5 1 The Romanian regulatory authority for communications 1.1 Mission, vision, values 1.1 1.2 Objectives and priorities for 2010 Mission, vision, values 1.3 Prospects for 2011 2 The regulatory activity – protecting the end-users while The National Authority for Management and Regulation in acknowledging that their actions will effect over years upon tens of fostering market growth Communications (ANCOM) is the institution that protects the millions of users. The ANCOM employees are aware that untainted 3 Competition – the key to sustainable development interests of the communications users in Romania, by promoting integrity is the foundation of trust, they respect the values they have 4 Enhancing competition through the efficient management competition in the communications market, managing limited settled for and the mission entrusted to them. of scarce resources resources, encouraging efficient investment in infrastructure and 5 Ensuring the regulation efficiency by monitoring innovation. The Authority’s activities are meant to ensure that all the and controlling the market The principles guiding ANCOM in its regulatory activity are: necessity, inhabitants of Romania enjoy quality communications services, at opportunity, proportionality, obligatory character, technological 6 Electronic communications and postal services market fair prices, while the operators develop through innovation. neutrality, transparency, predictability, stability, and efficient use of 7 Communication resources. 8 International relations and projects financed The ANCOM employees cherish professionalism and are dedicated from European funds to accomplishing all their tasks in a professional manner, respectful 9 Management and Human Resources of their profession, knowledge and partners. They all act responsibly, 10 Financial data 11 Abbreviations 12 List of the ANCOM President’s Decisions adopted in 2010 1.2 13 Contact Objectives and priorities for 2010 In 2010, ANCOM issued a series of important decisions for the As well, the Authority amended the general authorisation regime with telecom market and took significant steps toward accomplishing a view for the better protection of the users. Hence, by the beginning a committed objective, i.e. encourage competition and broadband of 2011, more than 1,500 providers of electronic communications Internet access. Thus, during 2010, ANCOM adopted the decision networks and services underwent the re-authorisation procedure. allowing the operators to provide simultaneously third generation and In order to inform and support the providers in the re-authorisation second generation electronic communications services in the 900 process, ANCOM organised, on a national level, seven meetings in MHz and 1800 MHz bands, established new tariffs for the access to the territory with the operators. Within these meetings, the ANCOM the local loop and amended the porting tariffs. representatives also presented the Authority’s short-term and long- term objectives and priorities, the new regulations and legislative Furthermore, the Authority consulted the industry on the review amendments in the field, as well as the activities of market monitoring of the relevant markets for the services of access to infrastructure and control. elements, of the porting tariffs and of the regulation applicable to the numbering resources. The streamlines of the implementation of the Universal Service National Strategy were also established in 2010. ANNUAL REPORT 2010 6 1 The Romanian regulatory authority for communications 1.1 Mission, vision, values 1.3 1.2 Objectives and priorities for 2010 Prospects for 2011 1.3 Prospects for 2011 2 The regulatory activity – protecting the end-users while 2011 will mark the celebration of 20 years of radio frequency In order to promote the end-users’ interests, ANCOM will continue the fostering market growth spectrum management in Romania. ANCOM intends to launch then implementation of the regulations for the services within the scope 3 Competition – the key to sustainable development the first national strategy for radio spectrum management, amend of universal service in the electronic communications and postal 4 Enhancing competition through the efficient management the secondary legislation in the radio spectrum field by revising the sector, and will develop online applications enabling the comparison of scarce resources procedure on requesting and granting licences for the use of radio between various communications offers and the measurement of 5 Ensuring the regulation efficiency by monitoring frequencies and, depending on the Government’s strategy, implement the quality technical parameters for the Internet access services. and controlling the market the measures required by the digital switchover. As well, ANCOM will Moreover, ANCOM plans to identify in 2011 the most suitable 6 Electronic communications and postal services market elaborate the strategy paper on the introduction of broadband mobile solutions to ensure access to the electronic communications services 7 Communication systems. of the disabled end-users under equivalent conditions to those 8 International relations and projects financed offered to the other end-users. from European funds Two new particularly important laws for the electronic communications 9 Management and Human Resources sector will be adopted this year: the law on the access to infrastructure In order to protect the users, ANCOM means to define a series of 10 Financial data and the law transposing into the national legislation the new telecom quality parameters for the retransmission of the audio-visual media 11 Abbreviations package. programme services applicable in the relation with the end-users, 12 List of the ANCOM President’s Decisions adopted in 2010 and elaborate a guide on the minimum provisions which need to 13 Contact One of the most important projects intended for promoting be included in the contracts concluded between the providers of competition in the electronic communications field to be launched electronic communications services and the end-users. Further by ANCOM in 2011 concerns the modelling of the efficient costs for in 2011, ANCOM will monitor the providers’ compliance with the a number of regulated services, including those of call termination at obligation to adequately inform their users as to the communications fixed and mobile locations. services they provide. ANNUAL REPORT 2010 7 1 The Romanian regulatory authority for communications 2 The regulatory activity – protecting the end-users while fostering market growth 2.1 Establishment of the quality parameters for the provision of Internet access services 2.2 Number portability 2.3 The Single Emergency Call Number 112 2.4 Universal service 3 Competition – the key to sustainable development 4 Enhancing competition through the efficient management of scarce resources 5 Ensuring the regulation efficiency by monitoring and controlling the market 6 Electronic communications and postal services market 7 Communication 8 International relations and projects financed from European funds 9 Management and Human Resources 10 Financial data 11 Abbreviations 12 List of the ANCOM President’s Decisions adopted in 2010 13 Contact 2 The regulatory activity – protecting the end-users while fostering market growth ANNUAL REPORT 2010 8 1 The Romanian regulatory authority for communications 2 The regulatory activity – protecting 2.1 the end-users while fostering market Establishment of the quality parameters for the provision of Internet access