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) identified the market for access of end-users, natural and legal persons, to fixed locations of the public telephone network (market 1) as susceptible to ex-ante regulation and designated JSC Moldtelecom as SMP provider on this market. This Administrative Board Decision (doc. in state language) was approved, in a public session, on October 24^th. It came into effect on the date of approval and will be published in the Official Gazette.

The Administrative Board of the National Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and Information Technology (ANRCETI) established, through a Decision (doc. in state language), the amount of the regulatory and monitoring fee for 2014, as 0,3% of the volume of revenue generated from electronic communications activities performed by electronic communications networks/services providers. The Decision was published in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Moldova on October 25, 2013.

On October 17-18, an ANRCETI Delegation, headed by Grigore Varanita, Director, is taking part, in the Plenary Assembly of the EaP Regulators Network, comprising the six countries EaP members (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, R. Moldova, Ukraine), hosted by the Regulator of Armenia, in Yerevan.

Yesterday, September 9, the Court issued a decision upholding the legality and validity of the application of the National Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and Information Technology (ANRCETI) on withdrawal of activity license of JV "Eventis Mobile" LLC for cell mobile telephony service provision, starting August 16, 2013, when the Administrative Board approved a decision in this regard.

Statistical data on the evolution of multi-channel TV service market (cable, satellite, IPTV and MMDS), published today by the National Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and Information Technology (ANRCETI), show that in the first half of 2013 there occurred a slight decrease in the number of subscribers to these services against a slight increase of revenues from sales of these services. The total number of subscribers reduced, compared to the end of 2012, by 1,3% (3,66 thousand) and constituted 281,2 thousand, whereas the revenues on this market segment increased over the corresponding timeframe of 2012 by 2,5% and totaled 82,7 mil. lei.

The National Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and Information Technology (ANRCETI) informs that JSC Orange Moldova and JSC Moldcell complied with the prescriptions issued by ANRCETI on July 30, 2013, by which the regulator required that they stop and afterwards admit no deviations from the requirements of regulatory documents in force as regards to number portability in R. Moldova.

Statistical data on subscribers and Internet access technologies published on the Web page of the National Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and Information Technology (ANRCETI) show that in the first half of 2013 the number of mobile broadband subscribers (via modems and data cards) increased more than three times faster than the number of fixed broadband subscribers. In this timeframe, the number of mobile broadband subscribers increased by 30,4 thousand (+17%) and accounted for over 208,8 thousand, whereas the number of fixed broadband subscribers – by 22,7 thousand (+5,5%) and reached 439,9 thousand.

Statistical data on the evolution of fixed telephone market, published by the National Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and Information Technology (ANRCETI) show that in the half-year of 2013, the trend of diminishing revenues from sales of fixed telephone services against the slight increase of the number of subscribers has become more prominent. The total volume of sales on this market segment dropped by 14% (- 108,7 mil. lei), as compared to the same timeframe of 2012 and made about 666,4 mil. lei, whereas the number of subscribers to fixed telephone services increased by 0,7% (8,9 thousand) in half-year, reaching 1 mil. 214,7 thousand.

In the first half of 2013, the number of mobile telephony users increased over the end of 2012 by over 215,5 thousand or by 5,28% and exceeded 4 mil. 295,6 thousand, whereas the penetration rate of these services per 100 inhabitants increased by over 6 percentage points (p.p.) and reached 120,7%, show the data available with the National Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and Information Technology (ANRCETI) on the evolution of the mobile telephony market in the first half of 2013.

The Administrative Board of the National Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and Information Technology (ANRCET) approved four decisions (no. 31, 32, 33 and 34 - docs in state language) by which established the interpretation of a number of provisions from the Annex to Decisions no. 60, 77, 78 and 79 (docs in state language) of 23.12.2010 regarding the special ex-ante obligations to be imposed on providers designated as having significant market power on the market for voice call termination in individual fixed and mobile telephone networks. These decisions are available on ANRCETI Internet page and have been sent to the providers concerned.