Marinescu also said he expects the number of mobile internet users will increase next year.
ANCOM announced at the beginning of November it will reduce the interconnection charges in mobile telephony by up to 30%, to EUR0.0405 per minute as of January 1, 2012, and to EUR0.0307 per minute as of September 1, 2012.
The last time ANCOM reduced the mobile interconnection charges was on January 1, 2009 for operators Vodafone Romania and Orange Romania, and on July 1, 2010 for Cosmote Romania, RDS&RCS and Telemobil.
The charges will be reduced by 19-30% in the first stage, down to similar levels across all mobile operators, and by 24% in the second stage, starting on September 1, ANCOM said.
According to ANCOM, the Romanian telecom market fell 6.6% in 2010 to EUR3.6 billion (15.3 billion lei).