­Romania's telecoms regulator, Ancom has published a draft decision aimed at allowing the use of the 900 and 1800 MHz bands for 4G services. According to the draft decision, operators will be able to also offer 4G services in these frequencies by means of LTE or WiMAX technologies.

At present, the rights of use over these bands are held by three operators - Orange, Vodafone and Cosmote.

Upon the approval of this decision, the three operators currently using these bands to provide second generation services and, from 2010, third generation services will be able to use them in order to provide forth generation services as well. Furthermore, RCS&RDS, which won a share of spectrum in the 900 MHz band following the auction Ancom held this year, will be able to offer 4G services as soon as the licence obtained becomes effective.

The 4G technology may be also implemented in the 800 and 2600 MHz bands from 2014, as a result of the recently closed Romanian spectrum auction.

The providers will choose whether to implement new technologies in these frequencies, the implementation calendar and the time of the commercial launch of the 4G services.

The draft decision is subject to a public consultation before becoming effective.