OREANDA-NEWS. September 22, 2011. According to the decision of the National Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and Information Technology, Moldtelecom was designated as a supplier having significant market power of the market for the provision of terminating segments of leased lines (market no.6) and provision of trunk segments of leased lines (market no.8), regardless of the technology used for making leased or reserved capacity available.

According to the Agency’s analysis, Moldtelecom has a market share of over 99.6 percent on the market no.6 and 100% - on the market no.8. The Agency now intends to entrust the Moldtelecom with the main tasks: to provide the leased lines to all willing suppliers on non-discriminating conditions; to ensure transparency in terms of fees, conditions of provision, maintenance and quality of services, to render additional services and others; to orient the prices on the wholesale services of provision of terminating segments and trunk segments of leased lines.

The Agency submitted its decrees to the Moldtelecom and to the National Competition Protection Agency that is to include this supplier into the List of economic agents having significant market power on relevant markets in the electronic communications sector within 10 days. By now, the Agency has analyzed 9 relevant markets and has established that Moldtelecom JSC has significant market power on all these markets.