Hakom - Croatian Post and Electronic Communications Agency

 
ZAGREB, April 11 2016 - A two-day ITU - EC Regional Conference for Europe on the topic "Broadband Services and Infrastructure Mapping", organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the European Commission in cooperation with the Office of Electronic Communications of the Republic of Poland (Urząd Komunikacji Electronicznej - UKE).
 
The conference which was organized within the framework of the Regional Initiative for Europe on Broadband, approved by the Conference on the development of global telecommunications 2014 (WTDC-14), provides an opportunity for high-level dialogue between the Institute for the Development of Telecommunications ITU, the European Commission,  the ITU Member States and sector members with a special emphasis on national, regional and international initiatives of mapping broadband services and infrastructure. During the opening ceremony, the keynote speaker Mr. Mario Weber, Executive Director of the Croatian Regulatory Authority for Network Industries (HAKOM) stressed out the achievements of the Republic of Croatia and HAKOM in the area of mapping and the broadband services development.
 
At the conference, HAKOM's experts Mladen Sikirica and Vesna Gašpar held a presentation on "Broadband mapping - Croatian experience" presenting the interactive HAKOM’s GIS portal as an example of a national mapping initiative of the availability and use of broadband services.

ABOUT HAKOM: HAKOM (www.hakom.hr) - Croatian Regulatory Authority for Network Industries – ensures preconditions for a fair market competition, stable growth and environment for innovations in the electronic communications and postal services market. HAKOM protects users’ interests and the possibility of choice among various communications and postal services at affordable prices, defines sustainable competitive conditions for operators and service providers under fair conditions for return on investment, and provides support to economic growth, public services and the quality of life in the Republic of Croatia by using modern technologies. HAKOM’ strategic goals are: to promote regulation of the electronic communications and postal services market, to support growth of investments and innovations in the electronic communications and postal services market, to provide efficient use of limited resources, to accelerate the growth of broadband products and services, to provide affordable offers of communications and postal services, to provide protection and informing of users, to build an efficient and comprehensive information system, to define and implement efficient processes, and to acquire multi-disciplinary competencies in market regulation.