CEE Regional Working Group - a cooperation project in our region Dr. Nicolae OACĂ Strategy Adviser to ANCOM President Sub-Regional Workshop on Transition.

CEE Regional Working Group- a cooperation project in our region

Dr. Nicolae OACĂStrategy 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

proposal on a regional approach on the digital

dividend usage

“ Digital Dividend –Challenges and Opportunities in the Region”,

Bucharest, March 2010

“South-East Europe Ministerial Summit on Digital Dividend” ,

Belgrade, June 2010

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 regulatorANCOM offered to create and

operate the portal and assist the working group

In 2011 spring, ANCOM invited regulatory bodies in

our region to join the project. 12 regulatory bodies from 11 countries joined the

project “Radio spectrum strategies”Bucharest, May 12th 2011 Kick-off of RWG meeting

agreeing on cooperation rules, portal content, portal

functionalities

“The achieved level of regulation and analysis of electronic communications market”, INFOFEST, Budva, 28 Sept

2009

ANCOM proposed a regional meeting dedicated to the digital

dividend

2. Working group members (1)

ANCOM

CNFR

ANRCETI

NMHH

RATEL

HAKOMAPEK

AEC

RAK

EKIP

ICTAAKEP

2. Working group members (2)

• 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, Romania• 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

3. Project - CEERegionalWorkingGroup.net-the main tool

- information on telecoms issues in each country- calendar of switchover, tenders, events etc.- relevant documents: legislation, decisions, studies, reports etc.- RSS feed

Objective

Target group

Content

- one-stop shop for information/regional overview on the telecommunications and regulation in Central and Eastern Europe

- industry/investors- consultants- international organisations (ITU, GSA, ..)- EU bodies- end-users

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:

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 cooperationstrengthening 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, [email protected]