Romanian regulator to allow 3G across 2G bands
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The technical and administrative measures of the provision for deployment of 3G services using the 900MHz and 1800MHz frequency bands by the cellular operators has been completed by Romanian regulator the National Communications Authority (ANCOM).
The 3G coverage of Orange Romania, Vodafone Romania and Cosmote will now be improved across the entirety of their current footprint.
According to Catalin Marinescu, president of ANCOM, this measure is part of the authority’s stated intention to promote broadband development in Romania and along with the CDMA license awards in 2008 and the forthcoming review of local loop unbundling, the liberalization of spectrum in the 900MHz and 1800MHz bands will contribute to the increased penetration of mobile internet access.
Mobile phone operators’ traffic, 60 pc higher than landline operators’
Bucharest The average length of a call in landline phone network is approx 40 per cent higher than the mobile telephony, however the traffic of mobile phone operators is 60 per vent above the volume reported by landline phone companies, the trend going down on this last segment, yesterday announced in a press conference the National Communications Regulatory Authority (ANRC). According to ANRC, the length of the calls made by the clients of mobile phone operators totalled 6.5 billion minutes in H1, as compared to 4.11 billion minutes registered by landline phone operators. The preliminary data showed a decline in the number of minutes used in landline networks, from 4.24 billion minutes, at the end of June 2005, to 4.11 billion minutes four months ago,??? ANRC president Dan Georgescu (photo) mentioned. He added that in the case of mobile phone networks, the total length of calls increased approx 57 per cent, to 6.5 billion minutes. The average length of a call in landline networks is 2.27 minutes, as compared to 1.63 minutes in mobile networks. Following the intensification of competition in this field, the length of an international call is 3.13 minutes,??? Georgescu said. ANRC data also showed that mobile phone operators had, at the end of June, 14.86 million clients, more than 9.7 million using prepaid cards. The penetration rate of mobile telephony reaches 70 per cent. At the end of June 2005, GSM operators had a portfolio of 11.38 million clients. There are four mobile phone operators on the market, namely Orange Romania, Vodafone Romania, Cosmote Romania and Telemobil (Zapp). The first two operators hold approx 93 per cent of the number of clients.
Varujan Pambuccian: legislation in telecommunications field must be modified
ANRC must adapt the legislation to the new realities in the field and rethink the most relevant concepts of the market, stated the president of the Commission for IT&C within the Chamber of Deputies, Varujan Pambuccian. If we take into consideration RomTelecom case, it is obvious it can no longer be considered a dominant operator, as it was perceived in 2003. All regulations that targeted the national landline phone operator matched a reality that ended several months ago,??? said Pambuccian. These statements come as a response to the criticism launched on Sunday by juridical and PR manager of RomTelecom, Catalin Dima, regarding the legislation in the field of telecommunications, which allegedly created an imbalance in this activity sector and hindered the company in competing with mobile and TV cable operators on equal terms.
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