| NOTAS: | "There is no doubt that 2003 represents the most important year in the recent history of the Romanian communications – the year of the liberalisation of the electronic communications market. To a novice, liberalisation may seem a punctual event that can be dated precisely in time, no more or less than the end of a monopoly, once the last page of the previous year’s calendar was turned. However, for the people that are involved in this process, market players and regulatory authority alike, things get a completely different meaning. For us, what may seem to others as an accomplished task is just the beginning. Free market does not mean only the disappearance of privileges or a mere change in the abstract field of laws and regulations. As far as it concerns us, liberalisation takes the shape of a process, that of transition from monopoly to competition, defined by the creation of a regulatory framework able to put in place the mechanisms of a competitive market, for which the event of January 1st, 2003 is only the birth certificate. Free competition is more like a tree that needs to be nurtured and grown, than ‘a reality’ placed in our custody at one time or another. …" |
