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Romania’s National Authority for Communications Administration and Regulation (ANCOM) announced Wednesday it will implement the last stage in the process to reduce the inter-connection fees charged by mobile operators Cosmote, Telemobil and RCS&RDS as of July 1.

The Romanian National Authority for Communications needs to align the interconnection fees applied by mobile telephony operators to EUR0.0503 / minute come April 1, due to a request issued Thursday by the European Commission, according to Vodafone Romania and Orange Romania.

Romania’s IT&C regulator on Monday said RomTelecom, the largest hard-line telephony operator on the local market, alongside 37 other relevant peer operators will apply interconnection fees of EUR1.16 per minute (VAT excluded) starting with September 1.

A number of 33 fixed telephony operators could apply, starting with the second quarter of 2008, an interconnection fee of 1.15 eurocents/minute, according to a draft decision of the National Authority for the Regulation of Communications and Information Technology (ANRCTI).