National Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and Information Technology of the Republic of Moldova

The National Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and Information Technology (ANRCETI) revoked, through its decisions, the right to provide electronic communications networks and services from companies ALIT, MBI-COMREŢ and NECCOM GRUP, previously granted by general authorization, as they failed to remove the circumstances that led to the suspension of this right. Based on an ANRCETI decision, the court issued a ruling that revoked the right of company ALIT to provide electronic communications networks and services, while the other two decisions are pending in court.

According to the ANRCETI report on monitoring and control performed in the first half of 2015, the Agency specialists found that the three companies, for a significant timeframe, failed to pay the fees for the use of numbering resources, which is an obligation prescribed by legislation. Subsequently ANRCETI issued prescriptions requiring companies ALIT, MBI-COMREŢ and NECCOM GROUP to pay off the accumulated debts. Since these companies failed to meet the requirements ANRCETI had to issue decisions to suspend their rights to provide networks and services, the legality thereof being proven later by court.

The report also shows that in the timeframe concerned, ANRCETI issued prescriptions for two companies: NETWORK SOLUTIONS and OVATEL TDM, where ANRCETI found a number of violations. Those companies failed to publish in their commercial offices and on Web pages information on quality parameters, to ensure the compliance of standard contracts with the requirements of normative acts and to pay regulatory fees according to prescribed procedure and terms. Finally, as the authors of the report note, the two companies complied with the requirements and removed the violations recorded in the prescriptions.

During the first half of 2015, ANRCETI performed 55 inspections, of which 48 – planned and 7 – unplanned, less by more than 40% compared to the first half of 2014, when 98 inspections were performed, of which – 61 – planned, 36 – unplanned and one repeated. The reduction of the number of planned inspections was caused by the entry into force, on 23.01.2015, of the Methodology of Planning state control over business activity in electronic communications, approved by ANRCETI Administrative Board Decision no. 51 of 04/12/2014. This Methodology establishes the new rules for planning the inspections, performed by ANRCETI.

July 15, 2015