No decision has been made yet because the bill on electronic communications has not been passed by the Parliament, nor approved by the government, said Catalin Marinescu, chairman of the National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM). The electronic communications bill was submitted to the Parliament as early as February, but has not been passed and now the government wants to have it enacted by emergency ordinance. When will that be? No one knows.
Did anyone at least make a decision about how to extend the licenses and whether the operators should pay a fee or not, and if they do, how much it should be worth? No, says the regulator’s boss, because there is no law in place.
The annual revenue of Orange and Vodafone amounts to about EUR2 billion and the two operators have 19 million customers together. The two companies declined to comment.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)