NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR THE STATE REGULATION OF COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATIZATION ANNUAL REPORT OF THE NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR THE STATE REGULATION OF COMMUNICATIONS AND InFORMATIZATION FOR 2012 KYIV 2013 NATIONAL COMMISSION FOR THE STATE REGULATION OF COMMUNICATIONS AND INFORMATIZATION ANNUAL REPORT OF the National Commission for the State Regulation OF Communications and Informatization for 2012 KYIV 2013 Content Chairman’s message ........................................................................................................................4 National Commission for the State Regulation of Communications and Informatization ...................................................................................5 1. Situation in the area of communications and informatization ....................... 6 1.1. Overall situation in the area of communication and informatization of Ukraine ...... 7 1.2. Situation in the telecommunications and postal services markets ................................ 8 1.2.1. Overall situation and tendencies................................................................................................................................8 1.2.2. Situation in the market of fixed telephony ..........................................................................................................10 1.2.3. Situation in the market of mobile communication ...........................................................................................11 1.2.4. Situation in the broadband market..........................................................................................................................12 1.2.5. Situation in postal services market .........................................................................................................................15 1.3. Developments in information society and informatization area....................................16 1.3.1. General tendencies of the information society development as a priority trend of the state policy ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������16 1.3.2. Key indicators of information society and informatization development ...............................................17 1.3.3. Main challenges for information society and informatization area and possible solutions ways to overcome them ...........................................25 1.3.4. NCCIR initiatives in the informatization sector area ........................................................................................26 2 ANNUAL REPORT of the National Commission for the State Regulation of Communications and Informatization for 2012 2. NCCIR principal activity .................................................................................... 28 2.1. NCCIR regulatory activity ............................................................................................................29 2.1.1. NCCIR legislative initiatives .......................................................................................................................................31 2.1.2. Development and improvement of regulatory acts in the telecommunications area ........................33 2.1.3. Preparation of the draft legislative and regulatory acts in the informatization area �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������37 2.2. Approximation of the legislation of Ukraine in the area of communications and informatization to the legislation of the European Union .......................................38 2.2.1. Extension of the NCCIR powers ................................................................................................................................38 2.2.2. Analysis of the telecommunications services markets ...................................................................................39 2.2.3. Twinning Project .............................................................................................................................................................39 2.3. Registration and licensing ............................................................................................................41 2.4. Radio frequency resource usage ...............................................................................................43 2.5. Numbering resource usage ..........................................................................................................45 2.6. Telecommunications networks interconnection ..................................................................46 2.7. Tariff regulation and mutual settlements ...............................................................................47 2.8. Public consultations ........................................................................................................................50 2.9. Consumer rights protection .........................................................................................................53 2.10. State supervision in the area of communications ...............................................................55 2.11. International cooperation and European integration .........................................................59 3. Work support ..................................................................................................... 62 3.1. Organization structure ...................................................................................................................63 3.2. Staffing the state regulation in the communications and informatization area ......64 3.3. Documentary support and executive discipline control ..................................................66 3.4. Operational expenses and budget revenues .........................................................................67 4. Performance of the Public Enterprise “The Ukrainian State Centre of Radio Frequencies” ...................................... 68 4.1. Performance of radio frequency assignment and issuance of the permissions for radio electronic facilities operation ...................................................................................70 4.2. Import of radio electronic facilities and radiating devices...............................................72 4.3. Radio frequency monitoring ........................................................................................................73 4.4. Realization of technical control of telecommunications networks ............................... 74 5. Priority tasks of the NCCIR for 2013 ............................................................... 76 ANNUAL REPORT of the National Commission for the State Regulation of Communications and Informatization for 2012 3 Dear Ledies and Gentlemen! THE MOST CONVINCING ATTRIBUTE OF THE MODERN WORLD IS REPRESENTED BY A HURRICANE OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS THAT FORMS A NEW WORLD VIEW OF SOCIETY AND A NEW LEVEL OF ITS EXISTENCE. NOW WE ARE UNDER QUITE DIFFERENT CONDITIONS COMPARED TO THOSE WE WERE UNDER TEN OR EVEN FIVE YEARS AGO. BY THIS TIME WE HAVE A SOCIETY THAT DEMANDS A DIFFERENT LEVEL OF SERVICES AND QUALITY OF POSSIBILITIES FROM THE INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS SECTOR Under present conditions communica- programmes, that will give a new im- tions appear to be a basic communica- pulse to the process of national econ- tor of a person with a person and with omy development and further transfer the outer world; it is a vital element to a new level of state management for ensuring his basic needs in health and building an innovation-based protection, security, well-being etc. economic system. The processes that take place in the sector are of global social phenom- To give an impulse to the develop- ena nature. More often the process ments in the area of communications of interaction between the state and and informatization in Ukraine NCCIR Petro Yatsuk, the citizen is ensured by means of ICT began implementing a number of Chairman of the NCCIR intermediation, and civil harmony in strategic initiatives aimed at providing the country and creation of precondi- the legal framework for the devel- tions for sustained economic growth opments in this area, infrastructure depends exactly on the stability of deployment, introduction of innova- functioning of the above and the tion services and new nation-wide development of the sector. projects implementation. NCCIR prin- cipal duty is to further the interests Today the Ukrainian market of in- of the Ukrainian people in relation to formation and communications that information and communications ser- had been formed within limited time vices of high quality by setting unified period is developed and dynamic rules, unified conditions for activity of enough to meet essential needs of all business entities in the market, as the country. However, its rapid growth well as formation of the competitive requires a continuous adjustment of market in which it is the consumer the current regulatory framework and who is a barometer of quality. efficient decisions that will assure for- mation of the competitive conditions Our aim is to create conditions under favorable for further development which by 2020 each citizen of Ukraine with due account for citizens and in any population center will be guar- country’s interests. anteed to have secure access of high quality to a wide range of services Performance outcomes of 2012 give supplied by means of up-to-date infor- evidence of the