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The Monitoring Tariff in Communications – 0 Value for the Second Consecutive Year

14.09.2011

 

“In the context in which, in 2010, the operators’ revenues continued to decrease under pressure from the difficult current economic conditions experienced by our country, ANCOM decided not to charge the monitoring tariff owed by the operators for 2011 either. This measure, as well as the decision to cut the radio spectrum usage tariff by 15%, allow ANCOM to support the communications providers facing revenue decrease for a second consecutive year”, declared Catalin Marinescu, president of ANCOM.
During 2010, the electronic communications and postal services market reached 3.98 billion euro (16.76 billion RON), according to the data processed by the National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications based upon the statistic data reported by the providers (revenues obtained from providing electronic communications networks and services and postal services). According to the reported data, the electronic communications market reached in 2010 the value of 3.63 billion euro (15.30 billion RON), showing a decrease by 6.6% compared to the 2009 value, while the postal services market reached 0.35 billion euro (1.45 billion RON), with a 2.3% decreased as compared to 2009.
Out of the total 15.3 billion RON – revenues collected from electronic communications networks and services, the largest decrease was registered by the revenues from the provision of telephone services at fixed locations (-12.4%), followed by those obtained from the provision of electronic communications services offered through mobile terrestrial public networks (-11.4%) and those obtained from the provision of leased lines (-10.7%). Negative fluctuations of the revenues were registered in the internet access services segment (-5.6%) and in the data transmission segment (-2.3%). At the same time, the revenues obtained from providing services of re-transmission of audiovisual programs increased by 0.9% and those from providing fixed public networks (revenues form interconnection and access to the local loop) increased by 9.7%.
During 2010, revenues obtained from providing fixed telephony networks and services reached 2.61 billion RON, those from mobile telephony networks and services reached 8.63 billion RON, those from providing internet access services – 1.32 billion RON, and those from services of re-transmission of audiovisual programs – 1.59 billion RON.
More than half (50.7%) of the total revenues obtained in 2010 from fixed telephony networks and services come from supplying natural persons with telephone services at fixed locations, the revenues resulting from the provision of telephone services at fixed locations to legal persons amounted to 25.6%, and the remaining 23.6% was obtained from providing fixed public networks (at a wholesale level).
As well, in the mobile telephony segment, revenues resulted from services provided to natural persons based upon subscriptions held the highest percentage (30.6%), followed by the revenues from services offered to legal persons based upon subscriptions (25.1%), by the revenues from providing mobile terrestrial public networks (at a wholesale level, 23%) and by those from providing services by means of prepaid cards (21.3%).
The annual monitoring tariff is owed to ANCOM by all the authorised providers of electronic communications networks and services and of postal services, whose turnover or revenues resulted exclusively from these activities exceed the amount of 100,000 euro per year.
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