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

The Administrative Board of the National Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and Information Technology (ANRCETI – www.anrceti.md) has placed on its website, for public consultations, the draft (doc. in state language) Administrative Board decision regarding the procedure for organizing and conducting a tender to select the administrator of the centralized data base for the implementation of number portability in the Republic of Moldova. The consultations are scheduled for December 8, 2011, this being the deadline for submitting recommendations.

In the nine months of 2011, the total number of subscribers to broadband Internet access services at fixed and mobile locations (mobile Internet in 3G networks) increased over the same timeframe of 2010, by over 33% and exceeded 482,9 thousand, show the data available with the National Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and Information Technology (ANRCETI - www.anrceti.md) about the development of this market segment.

The Administrative Board of the National Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and Information Technology (ANRCETI – www.anrceti.md) is inviting stakeholders to a public session, scheduled for Thursday, December 1, 2011, at 14.00, to review and adopt the draft (doc. in state language) Regulations on Number Portability. The session will take place at ANRCETI office, 5th floor, Conference Room, (134, Stefan cel Mare).

As per September 30, 2011 the number of mobile users exceeded 3 million 427,3 thousand, whereas the penetration rate per 100 residents increased to 96,3%, as shown in the data available with the National Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and Information Technology (ANRCETI) with reference to the evolution of market segment in 9 months of 2011.

The National Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and Information Technology (ANRCETI – www.anrceti.md) has placed on its Web page, for public consultations, draft administrative Board Decisions on imposing special ex-ante obligations on JSC “Moldtelecom” in connection with SMP on two other wholesale markets: the market for the provision of terminal segments (market 6) and the market for the provision of leased line trunk segments (market 8), regardless of the technology used to make available leased or reserved capacity (docs in state language). The consultations are scheduled to last through December 1, 2011, the deadline by which stakeholders are required to present their recommendations and comments.

The Administrative Board of the National Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and Information Technology (ANRCETI – www.anrceti.md) is inviting stakeholders to a public session, scheduled for Thursday, November 17, at 14.00, to review and adopt the draft (doc. in state language) ANRCETI Administrative Board approving the standard statistical report forms for providers of electronic communications networks and/or services. The session will take place at ANRCETI office, 5th floor, Conference Room, (134, Stefan cel Mare).

The National Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and Information Technology (ANRCETI – www.anrceti.md) established a number of special ex-ante obligations for JSC „Moldtelecom” as the company has significant market power on two relevant markets: the market for call origination at fixed locations (translation in progress) in the fixed telephone network (market no.2) and market for traffic transit (translation in progress) in fixed telephone networks (market no.9). ANRCETI Administrative Board Decisions to this effect entered in force on the date they were adopted - 01.11.2011 - and will be published in the Official Gazette.

Holders of personal mobile analog and digital radio equipment (PMR-446) under emission power up to 500 mW are entitled to use certain frequencies without a license or technical permit for that effect. This is a provision of the Administrative Board Decision of the National Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and Information Technology (ANRCETI) No. 29 of 02.11.2011 (doc. in state language), issued to complete Decision 126 of 02.06.2009 on radio frequency categories the use of which is not subject to general authorization regime and is allowed without priorly obtaining a license or a technical permit.

The Administrative Board of the National Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and Information Technology (ANRCETI - www.anrceti.md) established, through a Decision, the amount of the regulatory and monitoring fee for 2012, as 0,26% of the revenue generated from electronic communications activities performed by electronic communications networks/service providers. The Decision was published in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Moldova on October 28, 2011.

Providers of public fixed and mobile telephone services shall ensure, free of charge, the access of callers from public telephone networks to numbers of 116(xxx) format, assigned for harmonized services of social nature. This is a requirement stipulated by ANRCETI (www.anrceti.md) Administrative Board Decision on regulating the access to national short numbers of 116(xxx) format, used for the provision of services of social character, harmonized at European level. The Decision was published in the Official Gazette of the Republic of Moldova on October 21 and shall become effective on February 1, 2012.