On June 8, 2016, GNCC has launched monitoring of pre-electoral period of the Georgian Parliamentary Elections of October 8, 2016, and will carry out the monitoring of 53 TV companies 24/7 during the period of four months. All general broadcasters fell under the subject of monitoring, including Public Broadcaster and the Public Broadcaster of Adjara. Subjects of Commission’s observations during the monitoring process are: a) Pre-election advertising; b) Pre-election debates; c) News and ...

GNCC reminds broadcasters and electronic media outlets, that in accordance with the Paragraph 5 of Arti8cle 50 of the Organic Law of Georgia “on Elections” It is prohibited to publish public opinion poll results with regard to elections, except for the possible number of voters in elections and the number of voters participating in elections on polling day, within 48 hours before polling day and until 20:00 of that day. From the day of calling elections until the publication of ...

GNCC has drawn a protocol of administrative offenses related to the violations of the rules of publication of public opinion polls on 11 TV Companies and has transferred the document to the City Court for the further response. It concerns publication of election public opinion poll results commissioned by TV Company “Rustavi2” by „GFK“(23.08.2016) and by TV Company “Imedi” by „GMP.“ These TV Companies are: Broadcasting company ...

The coverage of digital terrestrial Free-to-Air network area in Georgia is still in progress. The owner of national TV network “TV-Radio Center” Ltd has installed a new radio-relay link in Tusheti, in particular, on Abanos Qedi range. Also, new digital terrestrial Free-to-Air TV station has been installed in the Omalo village which shall operate using solar energy. Omalo residents have an opportunity to receive following Georgian channels: 1st Channel (HD quality), 2nd Channel and ...

On September 26, 2016, an election subject “David Tarkhan-Mouravi, Irma Inasvili United Opposition of Alliance of Patriots of Georgia” has submitted a claim to the GNCC against TV Company “Rustavi2.” The subject of dispute was an issue regarding cancellation of pre-electoral free political advertisement of “David Tarkhan-Mouravi, Irma Inasvili United Opposition of Alliance of Patriots of Georgia”  from the broadcasting net of TV Company “Rustavi ...

On June 8, 2016, GNCC has launched monitoring of pre-electoral period of the Georgian Parliamentary Elections of October 8, 2016, and will carry out the monitoring of 53 TV companies 24/7 during the period of four months.   All general broadcasters fell under the subject of monitoring, Public Broadcaster and the Public Broadcaster of Adjara. Subjects of Commission’s observations during the monitoring process are:   a) Pre-election advertising;   b) Pre-election ...

Scientific-research publication of the head of the Commission’s Radio Frequency Management Department – Mr. Sergo Shavgulidze, has been published in the American journal “„IEEE Transactions on Communications.“ In Mr. Sergo Shavgulidze’s next article (attached) is presented a new decoding algorithm of generalized concatenated codes, which can be efficiently used both – during data transmission through communication channels, as well as, for encoding of ...

The Chairman of the Georgian National Communications Commission – Vakhtang Abashidze, and the Chairman of the Communications Regulatory Authority of Lithuania - Feliksas Dobrovolskis have signed the memorandum of mutual agreement in regard to the international roaming service between Georgia and Lithuania. The ceremony of the document signage has been held on September 20, 2016, at 12 pm at GNCC. The readiness for co-operation between Georgia and Lithuania within the scope of the ...

In accordance with the Paragraph 2 of Article 95 of the “General Administrative Code of Georgia” and Paragraph 14 of Article 36 of “Rules of Regulations of Activities of the Georgian National Communications Commission” and of sub-paragraph b) of Paragraph I of Article 191 of the Georgian law “on Electronic Communications” we notify you, that on September 23, 2016, at 3 pm, public hearing session to be held at the Georgian National Communications Commission ...

The Commission has studied a joint statement Of September 8, 2016, disseminated by “GYLA,” “International Transparency Georgia” and “International Society for Fair Elections and Democracy” as well as the statement of September 9, 2016, of “International Transparency Georgia” in relation to the program “Meetings with Regional Media” placed through the broadcasting net of “GDS” Ltd, whose respondent is a former Prime Minister ...