Romania's telecommunications authority Ancom published its 2021 Action Plan for public consultation. One of the most important topics of the plan is the auction of 5G frequency bands in the second quarter of 2021. The auction should have taken place this year, but was postponed due to issues concerning US opposition to Chinese manufacturers supplying network equipment.
Other projects included in the consultation concern the transposition of the European Electronic Communications Code, projects related to the implementation of the Infrastructure Law and the revision of the legislative framework on telecoms and postal services.
Ancom said it will collaborate with all the institutions impacted by the expected changes, as well as industry stakeholders, in order to ensure the transparency of all its actions in the next year.
Following the transposition of the provisions of the Directive on the establishment of the European Electronic Communications Code into the primary legislation, the secondary legislation will need to be consequently updated.
In this regard, during 2021, Ancom intends to review the regulations on the general authorisation regime regarding the provision of electronic communications networks and services, the procedure for awarding radio frequency usage rights, the management and administration of numbering resources, the regulations regarding communications to the Single National Emergency Call System, as well as the setting of security measures to be taken by providers and the reporting of incidents with a significant impact on the electronic communications networks or services.
By the end of Q1 2021, the authority intends to adopt the decision on the organisation of the selection procedure for awarding usage rights for the spectrum resources available in the 700 MHz, 800 MHz, 1,500 MHz, 2,600 MHz and 3,400-3,800 MHz frequency bands for mobile services. This means setting the conditions for awarding the usage rights and the rules for conducting the selection procedure.
This action will be followed by the actual organisation of the selection procedure for awarding the frequency usage rights, which is scheduled to take place in Q2 2021.
To continue implementing the Infrastructure Law, in the first part of next year the authority plans to set indicative tariffs for access to the passive infrastructure of network operators. This is aimed at supporting the development of broadband networks and the physical infrastructure elements necessary to support them.
Ancom intends to build an inventory of public electronic communications networks and the associated physical infrastructure elements (ATLAS Project), which will rely mainly on data received from the network operators in Romania.
Moreover, Ancom will analyse the conditions for access to the physical infrastructure built with the participation or support of the central or local public administration authorities or financed, totally or partially, from public funds.
In addition to transposing the EECC into the secondary legislation, Ancom plans to review the wholesale market for high-quality access services provided at a fixed location to reassess the need forregulatory measures, as well as the decision on collecting statistical data in the field of electronic communications and its application.
The interested persons are invited to send their suggestions and comments by 04 January 2021 to the Ancom headquarters.
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