WORLDWIDE MARKET RESEARCH REPORT - CISE

EC/IST FP6 Project No 026920
Work Package: 6
Type of document: Report
Date: 20.12.2007
File name: OP_WP6_D37_V1.0.doc Version: 1.0
Title: Worldwide Market Research Report 130 / 356
Romania was one of the first countries in Europe to adopt already in 2002, and on its own
initiative, national legislation that is based on the EU 2003 regulatory framework. Since then
the Romanian regulator has been carrying out an analysis of relevant markets as foreseen
by the EU framework, although without the requirement to notify its draft market analysis
decisions to the Commission and other NRAs under article 7 of the Framework Directive.
On September 13, 2006 the Romanian government adopted Government Emergency
Ordinance No.70 on "amendment and completion of certain normative acts in the field of
electronic communications and of postal services". The new ordinance creates a
mechanism, applicable once Romania joined the EU on January 1, 2007, for the notification
to the Commission and other NRAs of the market analysis decisions adopted by the
Romanian NRA. At this stage, however, it is not yet know when the Romanian NRA will start
notifying the results of the market analyses to the Commission and other NRAs under article
7 of the Framework Directive.
On January 30, 2007 the president of the Republic of Poland approved amendments to the
Telecommunications Act that were adopted by the Sejm (the lower house of the Parliament)
on December 8, 2006 and by the Senate (the upper house of the Parliament) on December
21, 2006. The amendments cover procedural matters regarding allocation of spectrum rights
and the fees for these rights under. In particular, the provisions are intended to clarify the
rules for assigning spectrum rights following a public tender procedure. Another set of
amendments to the Telecommunications Act is also currently under preparation. In
September 2006 the government announced that the process of inter-ministerial
consultations had begun.
In Bulgaria, on December 14, 2006 CRC adopted Resolution No 2247 granting five national
BWA licences to operate national point-to-multipoint networks in the 26 GHz band, valid for
15 years. Licences were issued to five operators that submitted bids on October 27, 2006:
the incumbent operator BTC, mobile operator Cosmo Bulgaria Mobile, as well as three
alternative operators Max Telecom, TransTelecom and Nexcom Bulgaria. Two of the
licensees, TransTelecom and Nexcom, already own BWA licences in the 3.5 GHz band.
Since the five bidders applied only for 20 duplex channels out of the total 25 channels