ComCom member Ekaterine Imedadze and the chief specialist of the IR Service Mzia Gogilashvili took part in the high-level World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) organised by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). During the event, the Communications Commission signed a memorandum of understanding with the communications regulatory authority of Bahrain (TRA) in order to enhance cooperation and exchange information. The agreement serves to encourage the activities carried out by ...

The 2023 Activity Report of the Communications Commission presents the activities of the Media School, which shows that the school has been actively working for more than four years to implement media standards and help media representatives and people interested in this industry to raise their qualifications. Last year, the Media School held 13 seminars for producers, as well as active and rookie journalists and cameramen.  In addition to the seminars, for more than two years the Media ...

According to the 2023 Activity Report of the Communications Commission, the Media Lab of the Cedia Academy actively supported startups in the field of media literacy and digital media in 2023. The Media Lab held more than 20 seminars and trained up to 450 startuppers last year.  In 2023, the Media Lab organised two editions of “Ideadrome” – a contest that aims to discover startup ideas, attract funding for potential startups and helping them bring their product to the ...

According to the 2023 Activity Report of the Communications Commission, ComCom has been implementing a variety of projects to raise public awareness about media literacy for a number of years. One of the most important among them was the project to integrate media literacy into formal education, which the Commission implemented with the support of UNICEF and the Ministry of Education, Science and Youth. The Commission carried out research on media literacy needs, devised an educational ...

The Communications Commission, together with UNICEF and the Ministry of Education, Science and Youth of Georgia, held an informational meeting with school principals in Rustavi on the topic of integrating media literacy into formal education and raising awareness about the subject among the school leadership. The meeting took place at the Rustavi Resource Centre, and was attended by 30 school principals.  Participants were addressed by the Head of ComCom Media Literacy Department Mariam ...

According to the 2023 Activity Report of the Communications Commission, the number of customers receiving transit broadcasting services in 2023 decreased by 9000 year-on-year to 745,000, which was due to the termination of Magtisat services. The customer density also decreased slightly: the usage of transit broadcasting services by customers amounted to 67.1%, which is 1% less than in 2022. It is worth noting that with the exception of 2023, the number of transit broadcasting users grew in each ...

According to the 2023 Activity Report of the Communications Commission, the communications sector contributed a total of GEL 499,573,882 to the state budget in 2023, which is GEL 65,274,127 more than in the previous year. Out of this amount, GEL 56,048,528 was contributed by broadcasters to the Georgian state budget in the form of taxes, while GEL 441,467,364 was contributed by authorised entities in accordance with the Law of Georgia on Electronic Communications. Licensing revenues accounted ...

According to the 2023 Activity Report of the Communications Commission, the fixed broadband penetration rate in Georgian households was 95.7%.  The highest penetration rate of fixed broadband among the regions of Georgia was in Adjara (137%), followed by Tbilisi (136%), Samtskhe-Javakheti (98%), Kvemo Kartli and Mtskheta-Mtianeti (85%), Shida Kartli (72%), Kakheti and Imereti (66%), Samegrelo-Zemo Svaneti (60%), Guria (58%), and Racha-Lechkhumi and Kvemo Svaneti (19%).  As of 2023, ...

According to the 2023 Activity Report of the Communications Commission, the 30 MB/sec package is the most popular fixed broadband package in Georgia, while only 10,000 customers (1% of all natural person customers) used the 100 MB/sec package. In comparison, 55% of households in Europe use a 100 MB/sec or faster package. This data echoes the results of the benchmarking study, based on which the use of high-speed fixed internet is limited for Georgian subscribers due to high prices. The report ...

The 2023 Activity Report of the Communications Commission includes the distribution of mobile devices by manufacturer. Samsung still accounts for the largest share of mobile devices in Georgia with 37.3%, which is 1.1% lower than in the previous year. Apple’s share increased by 1.8% year-on-year to 19.8%. Xiaomi’s share increased by 0.1% to 14.7%. Huawei’s share decreased by 1.1% to 4.1%. Microsoft/Nokia’s share increased by 2.6% to 6.6%. Lenovo’s share decreased ...