The National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM) hopes to organize the bid for 5G in September – October, stated Vlad Stoica, chairman of the institution, during the Cybersecurity Forum, organized by Financial Intelligence.‘As you know, we are having discussion for the organisation of the 5G bid. We hope to have it in September – October. We cannot organize it without the Code of communications, which, unfortunately, is now at the Constitutional Court. We hope that at the beginning of May a decision may be taken and we go further’ he said.After the finalisation of the Code of communications ANCOM needs 5 or 6 months to organize the bid in transparency, so that all conditions of opportunity and efficiency be met.‘So, everybody will be satisfied, both operators and citizens’ said the ANCOM official.Asked if there are higher risks as regards the security of the communications networks, in the context of the war in Ukraine, he said:’ there are not more than before. We don’t have vulnerabilities at the present moment in the domain of communications, I am referring to the network strictly’.
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Cluj-Napoca carried out multiple searches on Tuesday, July 1, at the Sibiu International Airport and the Sibiu County Council as part of an investigation into suspected fraud involving a EUR 54 million EU-funded infrastructure project. A total of 24 locations were searched across Bucharest, Brașov, and Sibiu county, […]
A Romanian taxi driver who scammed 90-year-old Nigerian Nobel Prize laureate Wole Soyinka was detained by police on Sunday, June 29, according to media reports. On Friday, June 27, the venerable Nigerian arrived at Bucharest's Otopeni Airport. He got into a taxi and asked to be taken to a hotel downtown. At the destination, the […]
Costin Șerban, a Romanian entrepreneur, is digitalizing the construction sector in the United Kingdom with an ERP (enterprise resource planning) solution developed over 12 years and an investment of GBP 1.6 million (EUR 1.86 million). Șerban’s cloud-based ERP platform is called Abilo, was developed by the Romanian IT company Obi Systems, and is dedicated to […]
Border checks between Bulgaria and Romania have officially been lifted on July 1, as part of the implementation of the Schengen Agreement. The lifting marks the end of the transitional period of heightened control at the internal border, which had remained in place for six months following their accession to the Schengen area by land […]
Remus Vulpescu became CEO of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) on Tuesday, July 1, taking over from Adrian Tănase as the stock exchange grapples with a market dominated by government bonds. Vulpescu, 53, is a graduate in political and legal sciences from the University of Bucharest and holder of an EMBA obtained in 2017. He […]
The government has officially included green belts in its 2025-2028 governing program, marking a significant step forward in the country's environmental policies, the Împreună pentru Centura Verde/Together for the Green Belt civic platform announced, further stressing the need for real progress. Its representatives have been advocating for the national adoption of green belts as a […]
