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On Wednesday, August 9, 2006, at the telecentre from Udupu village, Teleorman County, Romanian National Authority for Communication Regulation (ANRC) launched an information campaign regarding the telecentres for more than 40,000 inhabitants within 38 villages where the telecentres have already been installed. Present within the event, the ANRC President, Dan Georgescu and Vasile Voicu, Deputy Chief Operating Officer with Romtelecom, tested with the local people from Udupu village the telephony and Internet services the telecentre Romtelecom installed here are offered.

The telecentres have been installed on villages where no communication services existed and there are public spaces where the villagers can make or receive a phone call and faxes and they can use the computers with an Internet connection. They are installed based on national implementation program for universal service on which more than 600 isolated communities within the rural shall have access to telephony and Internet services.

"The telecentres appeared to settle the communication access issue for certain communities where a phone or an Internet line installation seemd an impossible matter until now. ANRC, on partnership with local administration and industry connected to the world the inhabitants of 38 villages, and telecentres installation continues because all citizens of Romania have the right for a minimum set of communication services. The information campaign ANRC is launched today under the purpose to communicate to the villages and communes inhabitants within the telecentres that today, nearby their houses a phone exists which they can call the emergency services in case of need and where they can talk to their relatives and friends at any time”, Dan Georgescu, ANRC President stated on this occasion.

“The telecentres are the sole modality of the inhabitants within such villages to be connected to reality and they can have equal information and education possibilities and opportunities. Romtelecom contributes, beside the other communication operators to the fond for universal services and made special efforts during time to extend the communication network, even for the areas which are technically difficult to cover, investing large amounts in a new infrastructure (access and transportation network) and in new technologies. Unfortunately, as else where within the world, in Romania there are such difficult areas too, where the operators individual efforts are not enough, as a national level coordinated intervention is necessary”, Vasile Voicu, Deputy Chief Operating Officer with Romtelecom declared.

Udupu village is among the 38 localities where a telecentre was installed after the auction ANRC installed in September 2005, as a part of national installation program for the communities with a limited access to telephony and Internet services. Udupu village has more than 1,700 inhabitants who shall have now the possibility to place phone calls, send faxes and navigate on the Internet.

Until the end of the year, other 170 isolated villages shall benefit of a telecenter each. ANRC shall finance the telecentres for three year, after this period, local public administrations shall transform them in independent business to be self sustained.

Romtelecom is the most important communication operator from Romania, which, for the past years, underwent successive transformations, from a former state owned monopoly to a competitive company, which enlarged its traditional business – fixed telephony and made a spectacular entrance on the data and Internet services market  in 2005. This year, it expanded its offer within the sophisticated IT services area too, launching the highest and secure data host center Romania, Cyber Host. For supplementary information on the company and services it offers, visit website www.romtelecom.ro

National Authority for Communication Regulation (ANRC) is the independent regulation institution within electronic communication and postal services area. Within its activity, ANRC has the following main tasks: promoting the competition, protecting the interests of end users and encouraging efficient investments within infrastructure.