The Communications Commission has invited international partners to a working meeting dealing with draft changes to the Law of Georgia on Broadcasting concerning hate speech, war propaganda and harmful influence on underage persons. In accordance with the EU-Georgia Association Agreement, Georgia is committed to bringing its legislation in line with the 2010/13/EU Directive on Audiovisual Media Services. As part of the Association Agreement, Georgia must adopt changes to the Law on Broadcasting...

To further enhance effectiveness of the Media Academy’s activities, the Communications Commission invited the President of the Bavarian Regulatory Commission (BLM) Siegfried Schneider and other BLM representatives for a four-day visit to Georgia. The Communications Commission has worked closely with BLM to develop media literacy in Georgia. For the past year, the Media Academy has also been using the BLM model of organising seminars and workshops for journalists, focussing on multimedia...

The Communications Commission has issued a statement regarding the expiry of Magticom’s CDMA license on 17 June. After the expiry of the license, the company will no longer be able to provide customers with the Magtifix service. Over the last two months, the Commission has acted in the best interests of the subscribers by offering the company numerous concessions and various solutions for extending the license. However, Magticom has so far rejected all proposals presented by the...

The Communications Commission has published the second media monitoring report for the 2019 midterm parliamentary elections, midterm Assembly elections and extraordinary elections of mayors of municipalities, covering the period between 31 March and 19 May 2019. 21 broadcasting channels and radio broadcasters were monitored during the reporting period. During the monitoring process, the Commission election advertising, election debates, news and political programmes, as well as public opinion...

The Communications Commission has published the second media monitoring report for the 2019 midterm parliamentary elections, midterm Assembly elections and extraordinary elections of mayors of municipalities, covering the period between 31 March and 19 May 2019. 21 broadcasting channels and radio broadcasters were monitored during the reporting period. During the monitoring process, the Commission election advertising, election debates, news and political programmes, as well as public opinion...

To promote media literacy in Georgia, The European Council and the Georgian National Communications Commission organised a working meeting with representatives from state bodies, international organisations, NGOs and scientific circles. This is the first time that a meeting of such magnitude took place on the subject of media literacy in Georgia. The European Council invited media literacy expert and national coordinator for Media Literacy Ireland Martina Chapman to attend the meeting. Ms...

The Communications Commission has published its 2018 activity report. Apart from the significant projects implemented in 2018, the report also talks about the challenges and plans for the following year. 2018 was full of interesting challenges and successes for the telecommunications industry. Authorised entities from the electronic communications sector collected GEL 1,237 million in revenues, compared to GEL 1,220 million in 2017. The number of fixed internet users continues to grow. Internet...

Broadcasting revenues are stable and have not decreased as claimed by the Forbes magazine and the bm.ge agency in the article titled “Television Revenues Have Fallen.” The 2018 data about broadcasting revenues that was published by the Communications Commission was reproduced with errors by the aforementioned media sources. The Commission has contacted the media organisations and asked for the errors to be corrected, but this has not yet happened. We must therefore inform the public...

The number of Georgian families using fixed internet continues to grow. The fixed internet penetration figure for the first quarter of 2019 was 74%, which is 7% more than during the same period last year. Total revenues of mobile communication companies increased by 3% during the first quarter, which was conditioned by a 12% increase in revenues from legal entities. The revenue increase applies both to sound services and mobile internet services. According to the Q1 figures for 2019, the number...

The Communications Commission has completed its research on the mobile communication market, based on which it took several important decisions to protect consumer interests and develop the market. Thus, the Commission sharply reduced the wholesale price of global internet and imposed an upper tariff limit. From 1 July 2019, the price of 1 MB/sec will be GEL 9 instead of GEL 32. As for the retail service market segments, the study determined that this market is competitive and requires no...