Communications and information technology

Communications and information technology

1. Communications and information technology policy

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  Promoting and supporting an open and competition-oriented market for services of communications and IT, apt to provide good-quality services at convenient tariffs;
  
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  Narrowing down the technological gap and catching up with the European Community and world legislation, by developing new technologies and services, so that the consumers and operators should enjoy a homogenous, non-discriminatory treatment open to competition;
  
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  Developing the Internet platforms and technologies towards the building of a digital economy at a national level.
  
  
  

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  Citizens’ access to information and freedom of expression;
  
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  Access to communication services;
  
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  Free and non-discriminatory access to universal services of posts and telecommunications;
  
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  Citizens’ integration in the “information-oriented society”;
  
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  Free flow of information.
  
  
  

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  The drawing up and implementation of the programs of financial assistance from the European Union and of the government agreements in the field of communications and information technology;
  
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  Connecting through Internet and multimedia services the citizen - his or her home and job - the school, public services and administration, in order to consolidate and develop the social cohesion.
  
  
  

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  The institutional and legislative reform.
  
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  The building of the institutional framework required for the development of a modern economy, the securing of a strong and regulated competition-oriented market apt to ensure free competition, on the one hand, and the protection of the citizens’ investments and interests, on the other hand.
  

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  The setting up of the National Regulatory Authority on Communications, that should be a politically independent and technologically neutral body with responsibilities in the field of spectrum administration and numbering, regulations and standardisation, authorisation and licensing, control and monitoring;
  
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  The provision of the legislative and organisational framework required for the complete liberalisation of the telecommunications and postal services;
  
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  Getting ready the operators for the complete liberalisation of the communications services and the adjustment of the extant licences of the national operators;
  
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  The setting in place of the legal framework fit for ensuring the free flow of information and the definition of the legal statute of the electronic document, digital signature, electronic data base and electronic commerce;
  
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  The promotion and backing of an open and competition-oriented market for communications and IT services;
  
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  The definition of a coherent and realistic tariff policy, relying on costs at the level of the national operators;
  
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  The taking over by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology of the responsibility for the privatisation processes of the commercial companies in its field, as well as the speeding up of these processes;
  
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  The setting up of the “112” unified system of emergency calls - one of the necessary measures for enhancing the safety and protection of the citizen and his property;
  
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  The establishment of the legislative and institutional framework for fighting electronic frauds and unauthorised access to electronic information.
  

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  The faster development of the public telephone network;
  
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  The introduction of new technologies converging towards communications’ globalisation;
  
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  The provision of the universal telephone service by introducing telephone lines in localities with a population of more than 1,000 inhabitants, concomitant with improving the quality of the services;
  
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  The promotion of the multi-service technologies in the field of wide band communications, including modern technologies of access in local band;
  
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  The correlation of the use of the FM land radio broadcasting band, of the VHF television bands, the correlation of the radio-electric spectrum in Romania with the European Allocation Table;
  
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  The upgrading of the technologies of the postal services concomitant with the enhancement of the quality and safety of the mailing;
  
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  The encouragement of the domestic production of sub-assemblies and spare parts for communications for a limited period of time, through measures to encourage and develop the small and medium-sized enterprises (SMSE) in this field;
  
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  The involvement of a minimal percentage of domestic private capital in the process of privatisation and licensing.
  
  
  

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  Promoting the IT in the public administration by bettering the communications of data, classified lists and registers of public interest;
  
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  Upgrading the flow of information among ministries, central and local administration, in order to make it fit for e-government;
  
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  Increasing the degree of the public’s access to information of public interest like legislation, statistic indicators, population’s registration, cadastre, and commercial register by Internet and electronic pay desk. Setting up public units of access to Internet and Multi-media resources, even in the less advantaged areas;
  
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  Developing the e-commerce, by facilitating the supply of goods and services by Internet;
  
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  Endorsing and regulating technologies of protection and coding;
  
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  Promoting the smart cards to protect the electronic access with direct applicability in medical services, electronic payments, Internet mobile access, public transport services, pay phones;
  
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  Establishing the legislative and institutional framework for fighting electronic frauds and unauthorised access to electronic information;
  
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  Supporting and encouraging the providers of IT services;
  
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  Ensuring active partnership with the professional associations, employers’ organisations, trade unions and NGOs in this field;
  

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  Implementing the information-oriented society through educational system, seeing to the securing of the necessary conditions for the training of communications and IT specialists, the elimination of the barriers and discrepancies between the rural and urban milieus, on the one hand, and between Romania and the EU member-countries and the US, on the other hand.
  
  
  

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  Promotion of IT in education for the attainment of the long-term target: “at least one computer having access to Internet for every school by the year 2004”;
  
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  Development of support services and educational resources for Internet;
  
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  Providing the required conditions for the training of the teaching staff to use the Internet and multi-media resources;
  
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  Development of academic education and research by Internet;
  
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  Encouraging the creation of jobs for higher school graduates and diminishing the rate of specialists’ emigration in this field.
  

2. Present situation regarding telecommunication

In 1991, the operational functions of unitary telecommunication system were separated. Rom-Telecom was set up as a regie autonomous.

The agreement was concluded with RomTelecom and provides for the installation of at least 650,000 new telephone lines in Alcatel exchanges in the country. Alcatel has been present in Romania since 1991, during which time it has invested over US$ 40 million in the country’s telecommunication system.

Based on the survey undertaken by the consultancy company Dofrecom France, a long term Development Program was devised, with strategic objectives: the use of top world technology; expansion and improvement of the quality of services. Part of the Program has already been accomplished through the commissioning of digital transit telephone exchanges, local and international. There have been built over 10,000 Km of main communication lines through optic fibre cables.

The first partners with which this convention was concluded were AT&T and Sprint International from USA and Telecom from Canada.

The main activity of the company is the development, exploitation and marketing of the public network of data transmissions. Rompac is part of France Telecom Transpac Europe network.

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