Monday, March 15, 2004 - 2048 companies notified ANRC in order to obtain the right to provide electronic communication networks and services. From these, 1710 companies have already received the authorisation. 183 companies were granted the right to provide telephony services, from which 179 will use fixed public networks, 74 terrestrial mobile networks, and 10 will provide telephony services through satellite. As regards the fixed telephony services, 137 companies intend to cover the local calls segment, 143 - long distance calls and 162 - international calls. Apart from telephone services, 552 companies can provide other types of services as data transmissions, Internet access, mobile professional radio communications, radio paging.

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Tuesday, March 16, 2004 - ANRC granted the licence for the use of numbering resources to Advanced Communications International S.R.L. from Bucharest. The company will use 10,000 numbers type 031 670 xxxx for the provision of fixed telephony services in Bucharest. Also, the company will provide various services through green numbers, prepaid cards and televoting services through 3,000 numbers within the 0Z=08 domain, as well as premium rate services from the categories of general entertainment, business and marketing information and entertainment for adults, for which 3,000 numbers within the 0Z=09 domain will be used. The company received the carrier selection code 1024.