Hakom - Croatian Post and Electronic Communications Agency

ZAGREB, June 15, 2018 - HAKOM's representatives took part in this year's BEREC Plenary Meeting (Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications) which was held on June 14 and 15 in Gdansk- Sopot, Poland. The meeting’s topic was related to the BEREC document on common positions related to monitoring the mobile network coverage, the report on sharing the infrastructure among mobile network operators and the discussion on the importance and impact of data economy. The document on common positions on monitoring mobile network coverage has been approved for public discussion. The regulator’s obligation is monitor the coverage of mobile communications network signal and publish the coverage data. Publishing methods can be different; therefore the purpose of this document is to equalize the coverage. The report on sharing the infrastructure among mobile communications operators was approved for public announcement. This document is particularly important with regard to the development of 5G technology that will require a larger number of base stations than the current 4G technology.

The today’s data has a strong role in almost all branches of the economy including the electronic communications market. The electronic communications market is strongly connected to other areas, strongly related to the data economy (i.e. On-line Platform, Sensors for Data Collection, Audio Visual Content Providers). According to the afore-mentioned, a workshop was held on the importance and impact of data on today's economy (Data Economy the day before BEREC plenary sessions). The workshop was divided into three parts. The first part emphasized the importance of data on today's economy at various institutions while the third part gave perspectives by interested foreign associations of historical operators (ETNO), European Telecommunications Network. The practical examples were presented in the other part of presentation. For more information please contact the following links: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_kvIY72z4I.

Referring to the  workshop, held before the Plenary Sessions, the Plenary Session continued discussion of the importance of data in today's world economy and the impact of all this on the electronic communications market. BEREC plans to adopt a report on the importance of all data on the market next June at the next plenary session of electronic communications market.

For more information on meeting’s agenda regarding drafting documents i.e. public announcement, only for the usage by BEREC members, public discussions) please contact the following link https:https://berec.europa.eu/eng/events/berec_events_2018/167-35th-berec-plenary-meetings-in-gdansk-sopot-poland.

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For additional information please contact:
Croatian Regulatory Authority for Network Industries (HAKOM)
Roberta Frangeša Mihanovića 9
10110 Zagreb, Croatia
Tel. + 385 (0) 1 700 70 07
Fax + 385 (0)1 700 70 70

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