For airing political advertising in violation of the law, the Communications Commission fined Mtavari Arkhi GEL 2500 and issued a written caution to PosTV. The Commission carried out media monitoring and found that in July of this year, the broadcasters aired video clips containing political advertising, namely:  The political video clips aired by Mtavari Arkhi presented the Law of Georgia on Transparency of Foreign Influence in a negative context, describing it as a “Russian...

To integrate media literacy into formal education, the Communications Commission used the media literacy teaching module to train 80 teachers, who will be able to choose the subject from the new academic year. The meetings were led by media literacy scholar and textbook author Natalia Ingorokva, who informed the participants in detail about the media literacy educational standard and the “Media Literacy Lessons” textbook. The trained teachers will teach 10th, 11th and...

The Communications Commission has announced a second auction for the implementation of 5G mobile internet. As it is vitally important for the Commission to facilitate the implementation of new technologies, it took the request of operators into account and allowed them to participate in an auction for the implementation of 5G. The first such auction took place a year ago, with only Cellfie Mobile taking part. The auction will be announced for 17 lots that include 700, 3410-3710 and 2600 MHz...

The Communications Commission has issued TV Alt-Info with a written caution for airing political advertising in violation of the law. The Commission carried out media monitoring and found that in July of this year, the broadcaster aired a video clip that falls in the category of political advertising.   In the video clip in question, an Alt-Info representative states that despite the unlawful moves by Georgian Dream to ban their political parties, they will be taking part in the...

“The decision taken by the Communications Commission is a step towards creating a more competitive market,” according to the head of the EU expert group involved in the comprehensive study of the fixed broadband market commissioned by ComCom, Domagoj Jurjevic.  According to Mr. Jurjevic, although the research was carried out in accordance with the EU market analysis methodology and best practices, all findings were based on the data obtained from the Georgian telecom market....

To facilitate integration of media literacy into formal education, ComCom trained 70 teachers using the learning module developed as part of the project. The trained teachers will teach media literacy as an optional subject to 10th, 11th and 12th grade pupils. Students who choose the subject will learn media and information language, information processing, types of disinformation, as well as methods of detecting fake news and determining the truth using a variety of...

The Communications Commission has issued Mtavari Arkhi with a written caution for airing political advertising in violation of the law. In July of this year, the station aired video clips showing members of parliament who supported the Law on Transparency of Foreign Influence and depicting them in a negative context. The Commission found that the video clips served to hinder the election of political unions and their representatives who will potentially be participating in the parliamentary...

ComCom member Ekaterine Imedadze, Head of IR Service Nino Grdzelishvili, and Head of the Department of Telecommunications, Information and Modern Technologies Eka Kubusidze took part in a EU Council working group meeting. Within the framework of the Hungarian presidency of the Council of the European Union, on the initiative of the presiding country and by special invitation, the event was attended not only by representatives of the European Commission and EU member states, but also by...

The MediaLab of the Communications Commission has identified the winning startup teams of the “Ideadrome” contest, whose goal is to discover startups in the field of digital media, improve their products, develop them, and facilitate their establishment on the market. The winners were awarded cash prizes of GEL 5000 and GEL 1000 each. The first place went to STAMO.AI, which is a web browser extension that helps bloggers turn their blog into a short animated video or GIF file, and...

According to the public opinion poll commissioned by ComCom, the majority (58%) of respondents identify general radio as the most popular type of radio broadcasting that requires additional programmes, while 22% believe that additional programmes are needed on specialised radio. Furthermore, the vast majority (91%) believe that radio station ought to broadcast across the whole country, while only 6% prefer regional radio.  These results were revealed in the Communications...