CEE Regional Working Group
- a cooperation project in our region
Dr. Nicolae OACĂ
Strategy Adviser to ANCOM President
Sub-Regional Workshop on Transition to Digital Broadcasting and
Digital Dividend, 6-7 October 2011, Belgrade, Serbia
Content
1. Starting points
2. CEE Regional Working Group members
3. Regional project
4. www.CEERegionalWorkingGroup.net
5. Next steps
1. Starting points
 The switchover process generated the need for closer cooperation
between countries in the field of spectrum management
 A history of good cooperation between South East European regulators
 Our region has simmilarities
 Cooperation in the telecommunication sector - a regular topic on the
agenda of many regulators in the region
 The need to address key issues that will influence our region in the future
 Always important: exchange ideas and share best practices for the
development of the telecommunication sector
 Opportunity = a regional online platform where the stakeholders
(investors, consultants, international organizations) could have easy access
to centralized information
1. Starting points
“The achieved level of regulation and
analysis of electronic communications
market”, INFOFEST, Budva, 28 Sept 2009
“ Digital Dividend –Challenges and
Opportunities in the Region”,
Bucharest, March 2010
“South-East Europe Ministerial
Summit on Digital Dividend” ,
Belgrade, June 2010
ANCOM offered to create and operate the
portal and assist the working group
“Radio spectrum strategies”
Bucharest, May 12th 2011
ANCOM proposed a regional meeting
dedicated to the digital dividend
proposal on a regional approach
on the digital dividend usage
One agreed on the idea to create a
portal dedicated to digital dividend
in our region, as well as a working
group, consisting of at least one
decision-making representative
from each country’s regulator
In 2011 spring, ANCOM invited
regulatory bodies in our region
to join the project. 12 regulatory
bodies from 11 countries joined
the project
Kick-off of RWG meeting agreeing
on cooperation rules, portal
content, portal functionalities
2. Working group members (1)
CNFR
ANRCETI
NMHH
APEK
ANCOM
HAKOM
RAK
RATEL
EKIP
AEC
AKEP
ICTA
2. Working group members (2)
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AKEP - Electronic and Postal Communications Authority, Albania
RAK - Communications Regulatory Agency, Bosnia and Herzegovina
HAKOM - Post and Electronic Communications Agency, Croatia
NMHH - National Media and Infocommunication Authority, Hungary
AEC - Agency for Electronic Communications, Macedonia
CNFR – National Center for Radio Frequencies, Republic of Moldova
ANRCETI – National Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and
Information Technology, Republic of Moldova
EKIP - Agency for Electronic Communciations and Postal Services, Montenegro
ANCOM – National Authority for Management and Regulation in Communications,
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RATEL - Republic Agency for Electronic Communications, Republic of Serbia
AKEP - Post and Electronic Communications Agency, Republic of Slovenia
ICTA - Information and Communication Technologies Authority, Turkey
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Romania
3. Project - CEERegionalWorkingGroup.netthe main tool
Objective
Target group
Content
- one-stop shop for information/regional
overview on the telecommunications and
regulation in Central and Eastern Europe
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industry/investors
consultants
international organisations (ITU, GSA, ..)
EU bodies
end-users
- information on telecoms issues in each country
- calendar of switchover, tenders, events etc.
- relevant documents: legislation, decisions, studies,
reports etc.
- RSS feed
3. Project - the working group
• Make decison on the portal
• Provide national relevant information to be uploaded on portal
• Represent a platform/opportunity of know-how sharing and
cooperation between the NRAs
• Faster/emmergency communications channel among members
• Debate topics of interest for the region and, if necessary, agree on
such: ….
• Cooperate with other similar regional groups or international bodies,
for the of the region
• Mutually agree to add new topics to the portal, other than digital
dividend …
• Could coagulate a common regional approach on ....
4. www.CEERegionalWorkingGroup.net
Steps taken
 Kick-off meeting: agreement on portal content and portal functionalities, as well as
cooperation rules - 12 May 2011
 Portal name www.CEERegionalWorkingGroup.net established after on-line consultation
- June 2011
 Portal name www.CEERegionalWorkingGroup.net reserved and acquired - July 2011
 Developing an in-house version* of the portal based on RWG agreement of 12 May June-September 2011
* In-house version allows experiments for preparing portal final version
 Uploading first documents on the portal at the end of July 2011:
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Serbia - ASO process, Digital Tv progress, Digital Dividend, National Statistics
Montenegro – Digital Tv progress, National Statistics
Romania - National Statistics
Croatia - ASO process, Digital Tv progress, Digital Dividend, National Statistics
Slovenia - Digital Tv progress
Macedonia - ASO, Digital Tv progress, Digital Dividend
4. www.CEERegionalWorkingGroup.net
Homepage
4. www.CEERegionalWorkingGroup.net
Digital Dividend
4. www.CEERegionalWorkingGroup.net
Events
4. www.CEERegionalWorkingGroup.net
CEE Regional Working Group
4. www.CEERegionalWorkingGroup.net
European Union
4. www.CEERegionalWorkingGroup.net
Other topics
4. www.CEERegionalWorkingGroup.net
Member Authorities/Countries
5. What next?
Portal
 Upload relevant info on the portal
- upload relevant information on in-house version of the portal – July 20111 - …..
- CEE RWG members: news, events, country relevant information ( , , , , )
- relevant entities - ITU, GSM Association, EU, CEPT, EBU, etc.
- transfer on the new portal - March 2012
Until the creation and launch of the new portal by the hired company, CEE RWG will use the existing in-house
portal
to upload relevant information, to make experiments, field trials, ...
 Road show to promote the Regional Project - make our project visible
- started - May 2011, ITU event, Gyor, Hungary
- continuing road show this autumn:
- ITU-D Study Group 2, Geneva, Switzerland, 13 September 2011
- SoftCOM 2011, Hvar, Croatia, 16 September 2011
- Infofest 2011, Budva, Montenegro,
- Sub-Regional Workshop on Transition to Digital Broadcasting and Digital Dividend 6-7 October 2011,
Belgrade, Serbia…..
 Public acquisition procedure for portal development:
Contest documents – ready in September 2011
Tender:
Launch – October 2011
Hiring portal developer – December 2011
Portal development – 1st quarter 2012
5. What next?
CEE Regional Working Group
 Actions for:
 coagulating our CEE Regional Working Group,
accelerate work and cooperation
strengthening relations and team esprit
Road show to coagulate the Group
 usefull for our region
actions useful: …..
Thank you for your time and attention!
Nicolae Oacă, PhD, MBA,
nicolae.oaca@ancom.org.ro