IT, telecoms and media

Alina Szilaghi advises public and private entities on electronic communications, IT and media. We assist companies with authorisation and licensing and with a wide range of commercial transactions in this sector, and represent clients’ interests before the competent national and European authorities.

Alina Szilaghi offers a full range of legal services in communications, IT and media:

• assisting companies in proceedings of any kind before the competent authorities, including the National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications (ANCOM), the ministry responsible for communications and the information society, the National Audiovisual Council (CNA), the National Supervisory Authority for Personal Data Processing (ANSPDCP), the Competition Council and the European Commission;
• assisting companies in obtaining licences and authorisations for electronic communications, including the general authorisation procedure and licences to use radio frequencies and numbering resources from ANCOM;
• assisting companies in drafting and negotiating a wide range of contracts, including building, buying, selling and leasing networks, supply of equipment and services, access and interconnection agreements, rights-of-way agreements for network installation, subscriber contracts and licence assignments;
• assisting companies and authorities on regulatory and competition issues in communications, including identifying and preventing anticompetitive practices, applying in commercial negotiations the obligations imposed by the regulator on companies with significant market power (transparency, non-discrimination, price control and so on), and making the case for or against specific regulation in public or bilateral consultations;
• assisting companies on IT regulation, including advice on e-commerce rules and on unsolicited commercial communications;
• assisting companies with licences, authorisations and regulatory matters in the audiovisual sector, including the audiovisual licence and retransmission authorisation from CNA, the broadcasting licence from ANCOM, and rules on audiovisual commercial communications, protection of minors and the right of reply.