Source HotNews.ro|author Adrian Vasilache|09.11.2014
The Bucharest City Hall cashed royalties of Ron 8,022,091 (over Eur 1.8 million) during 2009-2013 by leasing the NetCity underground optic fiber network for 49 years. The municipality should receive annually 12% of the revenues afferent to the lease of the network built and managed by a company specially established for this purpose – NetCity Telecom, part of UTI Grup, managed by businessman Tiberiu Urdăreanu. Forced by the law to lower their aerial cables for fees accused of being abusive by the telecommunications market arbitrator (ANCOM), small and medium Internet suppliers say the City Hall is receiving too little in comparison to the total revenues of Urdăreanu’s company – a major pillar of UNPR (Vice Mayor Gabriel Oprea’s party). NetCity defends itself by saying that everything is legal.