UPDATE: Ministry of Communications unifies three national centers into the Digital Romania Center

UPDATE:

Three national centers under the umbrella of the Ministry of Communications- The Digital Romania National Center, The National Center for Supercomputing and the National Center of Management for the Informational Society- will be unified into a single one called the Digital Romania Center, according to an announcement made by the Ministry of Communications.

The Digital Romania Center will be in charge with the administration of the Electronic System of Public Acquisitions, The National Electronic System of Tax Payments (Ghiseul.ro), the Electronic National System, the Service of Electronic Attribution of Transport Authorizations and The One Point Contact.

After the three centers are unified, 6 management positions will be eliminated and there will be only one president. Administrative expenses and staff costs will be reduced.

Radiocom lays off 450

State company Radiocom (National Society of Radio-communications) is in full restructuration process. By the end of the year, 450 employees will be made redundant, announced the Minister of Communications Valerian Vreme.

Radiocom posted a growth in the volume of sales in the first five months of this year compared to 2010. However, in order to make the company more efficient, expenses related to personnel, transport as well as bonuses will be reduced.

One of the main targets of Radiocom is to increase the quality of broadcasting services in order to allow the radio and TV broadcasting in digital T-DAB (Terrestrial Digital Audio Broadcasting) format and DVB-T (Terrestrial Digital Video Broadcasting) format.

Recently Radiocom launched two pilot projects for digital transmissions: one of them is for television broadcasting DVB-T (Digital Video Broadcasting-Terrestrial) and one for radio broadcasting T-DAB (Terrestrial-Digital Audio Broadcasting).