Rebalancing act

Romania’s telecoms regulator the ANRC has approved Romtelecom’s request to rebalance retail telephony tariffs. Romtelecom proposed to increase monthly rental tariffs by an average of 25%, but lower call charges for local, long-distance and fixed-to-mobile calls, while also extending off-peak hours and increasing the free minutes included with monthly line rental. ANRC says the telco’s request was reasonable and comes at a time when alternative telcos are continuing to improve their market shares, so should have no significant impact on competition.