The European Commission (EC) has unconditionally supported Romanian telecoms regulator ANCOM’s decision made in November to deregulate the wholesale market for local broadband access network services. After the EC acknowledged the decision without further comment, ANCOM’s ruling entered into force on 29 December 2015 upon its publication in Romania’s Official Gazette.
In making its decision, ANCOM rejected lobbying from Orange Romania and Vodafone Romania (chiefly mobile providers also offering fixed services), which unsuccessfully argued that wholesale broadband access obligations should be imposed on Romania’s fixed broadband market leader by retail subscribers, cableco/fibre operator RCS&RDS.
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