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) has announced an auction on four 3400-3600 MHz licenses to be awarded for the provision of public electronic communications terrestrial mobile broadband wireless access and fixed access services. Interested stakeholders are invited to submit applications to participate and accompanying documents to ANRCETI office, before 13 March 2015: 134 Stefan cel Mare bd, MD-2012, Chisinau.

On October 21-23, a group of experts from the National Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and Information Technology (ANRCETI) is taking part in a workshop for the electronic communications regulators from Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries - Accounting Separation and Regulatory Audit. The workshop is taking place in Yerevan, Armenia. It is one of the workshops within the EC technical assistance project ”Network of electronic communications regulators from EaP countries” and it is organized by the implementing company PricewaterHouse Coopers Slovacia.

The National Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and Information Technology (ANRCETI) has published on its official website www.anrceti.md, Users’ Page, additional information to raise consumer’s awareness about the services they are using and services they intend to choose. The information is placed in a new section of the Users’ Page - Theme Guides and Frequently Asked Questions complete the same page. This is one of the actions contained in the Action Plan for the Information Campaign "Know your rights as a consumer", launched in February by ANRCETI.

In April-June 2014, the total volume of revenues generated by electronic communications activities (mobile telephony, mobile broadband, fixed telephony, fixed broadband, broadcasting, other activities in this sector) increased over the same timeframe of last year by 14,8% up to 1 billion 742,7 million lei, as shown in the Report (doc. in state language) of the National Agency for Regulation of Electronic Communications and Information Technology (ANRCETI) about the evolution of the electronic communications market in second quarter of 2014, published on www.anrceti.md.

Statistical data on the evolution of the market for fixed and mobile broadband in the first half of 2014 published today by ANRCETI show continuously increasing number of subscribers and revenues. The number of subscribers to mobile broadband (via modems and data cards) grew more than 16,6 thousand (+6,4%) and exceeded 276,2 thousand; the number of fixed broadband subscribers - 18,7 thousand (+4%) up to about 486 thousand. The total number of subscribers to these services increased by 35,5 thousand (+4,9%) up to 762,2 thousand, the turnover of these services - by 93,5 million lei (+18.4% ) and exceeded 601,6 million lei.

The implementation, starting with November 6, of new licenses for the use of 800, 900 and 1800 MHz spectrum, recently granted to the three mobile providers, will start a new stage of development of the national radio communications sector and promote innovative mobile broadband services, which fact will facilitate the work and daily life of citizens. This was the message delivered by the Director of the National Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and Information Technology (ANRCETI), Grigore Varanita, during a press conference on Tuesday, Sept. 2, held at ANRCETI.

ANRCETI published the statistical data covering the evolution of the fixed market in the first half of 2014. The data show that the number of fixed subscribers kept the same level as last year (+0,03%), the fixed traffic dropped 11,8% (down to 1 billion 360,2 million minutes), the sales revenues dropped 9,2% down to 502,4 million lei.

In the first half of 2014, the total volume of mobile voice traffic grew over the same timeframe of last year by 11,2% and exceeded 2,9 billion de minutes, the monthly average traffic per mobile user was 206 minutes or three hours 26 minutes, which is 6,2% increase. These are the statistical data about the evolution of the mobile market in the first half of 2014, published by ANRCETI.

The Administrative Board of the National Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and Information Technology (ANRCETI) issued decisions to grant eight licenses for the right to use radio spectrum, available in the frequency bands 800 MHz, 900 MHz and 1800 MHz by the three mobile providers (JSC "Orange Moldova", JSC "Moldcell" and JSC "Moldtelecom"), for the provision of public terrestrial cell mobile services. These decisions were issued based on applications from the three providers, at the end of last week.

In April-June 2014, ANRCETI specialists made 36 planned inspections of the activity by providers of electronic communications networks and services, targeted at assessing their compliance with the relevant normative acts. The inspections were conducted under Law on State Control over Business Activity, in accordance with the schedule of inspections, as approved by ANRCETI Director and published on ANRCETI website.