THE RELATIONS BETWEEN ROMANIAN STATE AND STATE-OWNED COMMUNICATIONS
THE RELATIONS BETWEEN ROMANIAN STATE AND STATE-OWNED COMMUNICATIONS

Summary/Abstract: The Romanian society is nowadays subject to deep political, economic, social and cultural transformations, and this set of transformations obviously influences the everyday life. The alteration of a social organization by means of changing political regime, i.e. the transition from a type of society ruled, coordinated and supervised in a totalitarian way, to one essentially based on self-government, freedom of speech and democratic organization, where the state, having a well-integrated separation of powers, has nothing but a coordinating and political role, the only means to intervene being its own coercion power which is to be applied in clearly-cut and defined situations, was a major social evolution process that did not occur all at once, as human society first had to learn how to apply the new ‘rules of the game’, i. e. new concepts, fundamentals and ideas. According to its development level, objectives and difficulties of transition from a type of social organization to another, Romania has been focusing all this time on the essence of concerted reforms aimed at improving its stability, reform stage, and integration level required by the latest political, economic and social trends at international level. At the same time, the inherent transformations of a society undergoing transition process have overlapped the structural changes in vision, regarding the way people communicate among themselves. Nowadays we can therefore talk about the so-called ‘Information Science Society’ which is a knowledge-based one. In order to particularize Romania’s case within the current context, this type of society will definitely depend upon the country’s performances in terms of its critical infrastructures, such as its electric power production, transportation and distribution systems, telecommunication systems, banking system, its airline, naval, railway and road systems, that will be more and more available to wide access both within and outside national borders, and will also have a paramount role in redefining Romania’s national security doctrine. The telecommunications area has been lying within these evolutions, this field being determined by an unprecedented development rhythm in Romania, with the fastest growth represented by IT. At present, the two concepts are in a clear interdependence and complementary stage, (in certain sub-domains the two are even about to overlap), as they have been created to cover one of our society’s fundamental needs: the need for communication. In this respect, state-owned communications hold an important role and a particular one - due to the concept developed.

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