Preliminary assessment of the third payment request of Romania (2024)

 iii.   Link to the results of the spectrum auction published on the website of ANCOM, on 15
        November 2022: https://www.ancom.ro/licitatia-de-spectru-din-acest-an-s-a-finalizat_6706
 iv.    ANCOM Decision No. 644/2022 on the selection procedure for awarding spectrum usage
        rights in the 700 MHz, 1500 MHz, 2600 MHz and 3400-3800 MHz bands published on 15
        September 2022.
Analysis:

The justification and substantiating evidence provided by the Romanian authorities cover all constitutive elements of the milestone.

The “5G” radio frequency licences shall be assigned

The evidence provided by the Romanian authorities demonstrates that ANCOM assigned the rights of use of spectrum in the 700 MHz, 1500MHz and 3,4 – 3,8GHz bands for the deployment of 5G.

As published on the ANCOM website on 15 November 2022 (document iii), three bidders were awarded “5G” radio frequency licences. Specifically:

• • ORANGE ROMANIA S.A. was awarded 2 blocks of 2x5 MHz each in the 700 MHz FDD band,

all 8 blocks of 5 MHz available in the 1500 MHz band and 16 blocks of 10 MHz each in the 3400-3800 MHz band, for the amount of 264,607,669 euros representing license fee.

• • VODAFONE ROMANIA S.A. was awarded 1 block of 2x5 MHz in the 700 MHz FDD band and

10 blocks of 10 MHz each in the 3400-3800 MHz band,and will pay the amount of 122,503,374 euros as license fee.

• • RCS & RDS S.A. has won the 4 blocks of 2x5 MHz available in the 2600 MHz FDD band and 5

blocks of 10 MHz each in the 3400-3800 MHz band, for which it will pay the amount of 45,500,000 euros as license fee.

based on the results of the competitive selection procedure /auction in milestone 147.

• • Milestone #147 requires the publication and organisation of a competitive selection

procedure to grant the “5G licences” in the 700 MHz, 1500 MHz, 2600 MHz and 3400-3800 MHz by ANCOM. This milestone was assessed as satisfactorily fulfilled under the second payment request submitted by Romania under the Romanian recovery and resilience plan; The results of the selection procedure for awards in the 700 MHz, 1500 MHz, 2600 MHz and 3400-3800 MHz conducted under milestone #147 were published on 15 November 2022. As indicated above, these results assign 5G licenses to the three winning bidders, namely ORANGE ROMANIA S.A., VODAFONE ROMANIA S.A. and RCS & RDS S.A. Commission Preliminary Assessment: Satisfactorily fulfilled

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