The regional telecoms carrier Interdnestrcom could be registered in Moldova’s jurisdiction and conditions for restoring the telephone connection between both sides of the Nistru will be thus created. The Cabinet approved the legislative initiative concerning the amendment of Article 97 of the Law on Electronic Communications, IPN reports.

“The law needs to be adjusted so as to implement the protocol decision regarding the measures for organizing interaction in the telecommunications sector that was signed on November 25, 2017. By this decision, conditions are created for advancing the negotiations on the registration of the regional telecoms carrier Interdnestrcom in the jurisdiction of the Republic of Moldova and for ensuring the telephonic interconnection between both sides. The Government could offer compensation to the operators Orange and Moldcell for the retrocession, in territorial limits, of the frequencies of the 800 MHz band, while the regulatory authority will register the operator from Tiraspol in accordance with Moldova’s legislation,” stated Minister of Economy and Infrastructure Kiril Gaburici.

As it is known, the process is mediated by the OSCE.

Kiril Gaburici also said the modification of the legislation will not have direct legal effects until the national operators voluntarily concede the frequencies. This decision is a clear signal that the Republic of Moldova takes the necessary steps to integrate the Transnistrian region in its legal camp.

The telephone connection between the two sides of the Nistru was interrupted in 2003.