Nokia and Alcatel last week announced they would join Ericsson and Siemens in testing 3G mobile telephony in Romania, which proves that the largest European producers of telecommunications technology feel the Romanian market is fitted for the development of such services.
The third generation of mobile telephony enables broadband wireless communication, translating into high speed of data transmission, around the average of 384 kbps and at a maximum of 2 Mbps. This allows video-streaming (real time video transmission), the transfer of voluminous data packages, Internet access or access to advanced location services.
Within the first stage, Nokia, Alcatel, Ericsson and Siemens will test the infrastructure for voice and data transmission and, in the second stage - broadcasting movies or TV shows on mobile phones, as well as video-telephony services. The selected areas are Bucharest and the neighbouring region, Brasov, Craiova, Cluj-Napoca and the national road between Bucharest and Brasov.
"Experimental licences will be granted for free, being exempt from the payment of the tariff charged for the use of the frequency spectrum. Owners of such licences will not be allowed however to use them to commercial ends," the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology decided. Four 3G licences will be granted by tender by the end of this year. The minimal coverage will be for Bucharest and 10 Romanian cities, chosen by licence owners. Connex and Orange, the two large GSM operators on the domestic telecommunications market, have both voiced plans to win one of these licences.
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