Abusive use of the 112 emergency call number and prank calls alerting special intervention services will be fined RON500 to RON1,000, according to a recently approved government ordinance.
The ordinance also sets fines of RON5,000 to RON100,000 for telecom operators who fail to ensure priority transmission for emergency calls and fail to provide the system administrator with subscriber phone number and ID free of charge.
The new applicable fines take effect in ten days.
IT&C minister Borbely Karoly said last week that 33 million calls of 36 million to the single emergency number 112 in 2007 were false.