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At the invitation by the ITU, HAKOM’s experts presented the experiences of the Republic of Croatia in the switch-over to digital broadcasting of the TV signal and the allocation of the digital dividend at a regional seminar in Budapest, Hungary.

 

The electronic communications and postal services regulator, the Croatian Post and Electronic Communications Agency (HAKOM), has gathered the representatives of operators, postal services providers, public authorities, industry and the academic community at a conference dedicated to the situation and development of the market it regulates.
 

Following a successful completion of the three rounds where over HRK 33 million have been granted, the latest round of public tenders is announced for the granting of aid under the HAKOM’s Programme for the development of the Internet and broadband in the areas under special state concern, hilly and mountainous areas and islands.

 

12 offers for the development of “e-Police” application were received at public opening. The application is designed for police officers to provide them with access to the IT system of the Ministry of the Interior at all times.

The public and companies responded to the public tender for the submission of conceptual designs for software applications and services by providing a total of 54 ideas, 19 of which will be implemented through public tenders, following the development of the technical documentation.
 

HAKOM has presented a new ordinance on the payment of fees for the performance of its activities in 2014 for public consultation. The plan is to additionally unburden the economy in the electronic communications and postal services market next year. 
 

HAKOM has selected VIPnet’s offers for the granting of aid to connect target users – schools, health centres and others to broadband in four counties. After the first round of the competition, it only remains to connect the target users in Brodsko-posavska County.

 

HAKOM has announced the fifth public tender for the development of socially beneficial applications in the current year. The implementation of the remaining tenders will continue until the end of this year and in 2014.

A paper entitled “Experiences of HAKOM in the implementation of the Electronic Communications Act, based on the regulatory framework of the European Union from 2009”, was published in the leading expert-scientific magazine in the area of telecommunications in Serbia.

Deputy President of the Council of HAKOM, Domagoj Jurjević, has been elected as Vice-Chair of BEREC, the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications. 

Following the Croatian accession to the European Union, the traffic in roaming increased by more than 100 per cent when compared with the same period of the previous year.