The Parliament of Georgia has already approved amendments to be made in the Georgian Law “on Electronic Communications” to ensure the liberalization-harmonization process in the radio frequency spectrum at first hearing. After providing amendments in the Georgian Law “on Electronic Communications” to ensure the liberalization of radio frequency spectrum, GNCC will be entitled to issue new licenses in order to implement new (LTE) mobile broadband technologies. These ...

Today, on July 17, 2014, preparatory session of radio broadcasting contest in Rustavi has been held at the Georgian National Communications Commission. Only one company Newcom Ltd participates in the contest. At today’s session the sealed documentation of the contestant was opened publicly. In accordance with the Law of Georgia on Broadcasting the documentation submitted by the company was not complete. The Commission determined additional five-day period to complete the ...

The Georgian National Communications Commission by the decision of July 3 extended the term for submission of documents of participants in the contest announced for issuance of private general radio broadcasting license in Rustavi for one week, till July 14, 2014, 17:00. The basis for extension of the term became the technical inaccuracy detected in the decision (June 5, 2014) on announcement of contest for issuance of private general radio broadcasting license in Rustavi. It follows from that ...

Today, on July 1, the Georgian National Communications Commission has extended the term of license N B54 of Europe Plus Tbilisi Ltd (brand name radio Vinyl) for a ten-year period. The company carries out private general broadcasting in Tbilisi on FM 99.7. By the Commission’s decision the company has to pay the license fee in the amount of 10,692.00 GEL to the Central State budget of Georgia within one year according to the schedule determined in advance.  For the complete version of ...

Today, on July 1, Stereo+ Ltd has become a winner on B+2 lot at the contest announced at the Georgian National Communications Commission to provide digital broadcasting. The company became a holder of three licenses. Within the MUX-B license Stereo+ Ltd will be able to distribute national TV broadcasting free-to-air, within MUX-C and MUX-D licenses - to distribute free-to-air broadcasting signal, as well as in closed so-called encoded format for commercial purposes (Pay TV).  The ...

Today, on June 30, public hearing of contest announced for obtaining licenses for the use of radio frequency spectrum in order to provide digital broadcasting has been held at the Georgian National Communications Commission Two companies Mux Ltd and Stereo+ Ltd participated in the contest. Mux Ltd filed a request for one lot (□ A+0), though today, at the session, a representative of the company retracted request because of financing problems. The second company Stereo+ filed a request for two ...

  Public Administrative Proceedings for Studying Number Porting Tariff Ended Public administrative proceedings commenced for the purpose of studying and analyzing the tariff set for number porting service provided by Medaiapro Georgia Ltd ended at the Georgian National Communications Commission. Commencement of study was preceded by the Commission’s decision of February 13, 2014, by which public administrative proceedings commenced to change the system of payment for number ...

  According to the information spread in media, the Committee of Communications of so-called South Ossetia and the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media of Russia have signed an agreement. In accordance with the agreement, the dialing numbers of South Ossetia will begin with 7, fixed line code will be 850, and 998 for mobile codes. The signed agreement is to remain active until South Ossetia enters the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and gets its own international dialing ...

On December 30, 2013 MagtiCom will launch 3 new channels for the subscribers of MagtiSat. Magti Hit will provide the most popular movie hits of the 21st century in Georgian language. Magti Kino will represent the most popular and high-revenue films also in Georgian. Big budgets and big revenues, participation of movie stars and prominent film directors, prizes or nominations of prestigious film festivals (“Oscar”, “Globe”) – those were the criteria to choose the ...

The Georgian National Communications Commission (GNCC) elected unanimously Vakhtang Abashidze as Chairman of the Commission. Election of Chairman has been held today at the Georgian National Communications Commission publicly. Only one candidate - Vakhtang Abashidze participated in the election. We remind you that in accordance with amendments made to the Law of Georgia on Broadcasting in October 2013, Chairman of the Georgian National Communications Commission is elected by the Commission ...