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 Communications Commission has declared Magticom an operator with significant market power on the fixed internet market and imposed several specific obligations on the company in order to rectify the current uncompetitive environment and open the market. The Commission took this decision based on the results of the comprehensive study of the fixed internet market and the recommendations of the EU experts involved in the study.  One such obligation is providing other operators with...

The Communications Commission has declared Magticom an operator with significant market power on the fixed internet market and established that the company holds a dominant position on the said market in terms of customer numbers, revenues and infrastructure alike. The Commission took this decision based on the results of the comprehensive study of the fixed internet market, which it carried out together with EU experts.  ComCom’s decision to deem Magticom an operator with...

The Communications Commission has declared Magticom an operator with significant power on the fixed internet market. The decision was based on the comprehensive study of the fixed internet market commissioned by ComCom, within the framework of which the EU experts involved in the study deemed the Georgian fixed internet market to be uncompetitive and found that without ex-ante regulation, the restrictive competitive environment will not change.  When making the decision, the Communications...

“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...

In order to eliminate product placement violations in the Georgian television space and protect user rights, ComCom member Ivane Makharadze and Head of Media Services Regulation Department, Kote Koridze, met with representatives of TV company BMG. The workshop served as a detailed discussion of the legal framework on product placement violations and the existing product placement guidelines developed by ComCom.  During the meeting ComCom representatives and BMG employees discussed examples...