 Hello, you, my name is Marco, I will be IT technician. Just a couple of short notices since I see the old, most of the participants that were here yesterday are here today as well. So for this meeting is provided simultaneous interpretation. So by choosing the interpretation icon in your menu and choosing the language that you wanna listen, you will be able to listen to the interpretation the whole time. And, of course, one important notice, please, do not turn on your mics unless you want to speak because we can hear all the background noises around you. Thank you very much. Good morning, everyone, my name is Marco, I will be your technical support today. For today's meeting, as yesterday evening, we will provide simultaneous interpretation. So on the interpretation icon, by clicking on it, you can choose the language that you want to listen to. I also ask you not to turn on your mics unless you want to speak because we will hear all the sounds in your background. Thank you very much. Mr. Ponder, back to you. Great, thank you very much, Marco. Thank you very much. Good morning, everyone, my name is Marco. Welcome on behalf of the organizers of the ITU, of this event, meaning ITU and ECHIP. And welcome to this exciting day, which will be constituted by the two sessions, one focusing on the 5G implementation strategies, policies, and regulation, accelerating deployment of mobile connectivity. And the second one, which will be focusing on the mapping of the infrastructure. And so from market analysis to market visualization, enabling environment for evidence-based regulation. Ladies and gentlemen, this session, which is in front of us, will take a holistic approach for 5G implementation, focusing on the outcomes and strategic next steps following spectrum options, including best practices from consultation process, innovation, ecosystem development, and use cases and business models for market development. It's my great pleasure to hand over the floor and to Mr. Boris Yevrich, Chief Deputy Executive Director, Head of Radical Communication Department at the Agency of Electronic Communications and Postal Services, I keep in Montenegro to moderate this session. Boris, I'm handing over and to you. Thank you, Mr. Ponder. Distinguished panelists and participants, as you know, European Electronic Communication Code sets following general objectives, promoting connectivity and access to very high capacity networks, including fixed mobile and wireless networks, promoting competition and efficient investment, contributing to the development of the internal market and promoting the interests of EU citizens. Promoting full connectivity will remain strategic priorities in the coming years, in line with the focus on promoting very high capacity networks. This means prioritizing work that improves the general conditions for the expansion and take up of secure, competitive and reliable high capacity networks, both fixed and wireless across Europe while ensuring the smooth transition from legacy infrastructures. The requirements concerning the capabilities of electronic communication networks are constantly increasing and the response towards the demand is to bring optical fiber to closer and closer to the user. But in parallel with these requirements, we have opportunities to develop mobile and wireless networks, especially importance for our economies and lives of 5G networks and services. During this session, we will talk about 5G implementation, strategies, policies and regulation, accelerating deployment of mobile connectivity. The topic is very important and I hope that it will be inspiring for a quality discussion of all of us who are currently present at this virtual meeting. 5G mobile networks will bring very high capacity connectivity to mobile users. These networks are set to play little role in laying the basis for the digital and green transformation in areas like transport, energy, health, agriculture and so on. More information about deployment of 5G networks across the European Union will present Mr. Anastas Icopoulos who come from Radio Spectrum Policy Unit, digital connect from European Commission. Mr. Icopoulos, the floor is yours. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Zewritz for your introduction. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. I hope you can hear me and see me as well. Okay, I guess this is positive. So, well, firstly, I would like to thank both the ITU and the competent authority of Montenegro, the ECHIP, if I pronounce it well, for having me. My name is Anastas Icopoulos, working in the Radio Spectrum Policy Area in the Commission. And I am delighted to be here to speak about mobile connectivity basically from the EU policy angle. So, I plan to go through a short presentation. I don't know if you are able to project it or would you like me to do so? It should be coming in a moment. Just ask for Marco to confirm. I have served with you, so I guess there will be no problem. That's great. So, next slide, please. So, in the context of the implementation of the 5G Action Plan, the well-known strategic initiative to make 5G a reality across the EU, the Commission took some important, has taken some important initiatives. With this initiative, actually the Commission aims to provide the appropriate support to Member States for deploying 5G networks, including by setting clear objectives and deadlines and funding 5G related projects, of course. And in this context, Member States are taking appropriate steps to achieve these respective milestones of 5G deployment. Speaking of the European Electronic Communications Code which came into effect on the 21st of December last year, which is a huge milestone for the European Union, it actually puts in place one of the essential building blocks for a digital single market in the Union. This directive marks, I have to say, a significant revision of the old regulatory framework dating back to 2009 and is designed to reflect the reality of today's electronic communications market. The code actually aims to promote connectivity and encourages more investment in support of both the Gigabit and 5G targets. And here I would like to highlight the pivotal role of the RSPG of the Radio Spectrum Policy Group in the policymaking. As you know, the group is a high level advisory group that assists the Commission in the development of radio spectrum policy. The RSPG adopts many important deliverables, opinions, position papers, reports, and also it issues a statement which all are aimed at assisting in this respect. And not to mention that quite recently the group came up with adoption of a bunch of very, very useful opinions. A few examples are on additional spectrum needs on the targeted consultation on the digital compass for which my director, Rida Vesembeg, spoke about it yesterday and of course on spectrum sharing, which is really important. It is worth mentioning at this point also that the code on the Commission to define the necessary physical characteristics for small cells to be exempted from individual prior permits across the EU, to pave the way literally for timely 5G rollout delivering high capacity and throughput. Such small cells should be deployed in big numbers when it comes to the identification of a network without restrictive administrative barriers. And to accelerate 5G network installations in the key area of denser cell deployment, the Commission released in July last year in July 2020, it's implementing regulation on smaller wireless access points, the so-called small cells. So the pandemic crisis, as you all know, highlighted very clearly the need for nation and EU-wide very high capacity connectivity and more importantly, the need for continued investments in digital infrastructure with a view to contributing to the EU 2025 gigabit connectivity objectives. And here comes the connectivity toolbox, which I will take you through in more detail later on. In the context of the EU recovery and resilience facility, which offers a great opportunity to speed up the recovery in Europe and reinforce the commitment to the twin transition, the Commission strongly encourage member states to include in their national recovery and the zillion plans that have very simply been submitted investments in reforms in a limited number of like Siberia, such as the green investments and the digitalization. And the Commission will be monitoring the implementation of the plans, I mean, to ensure in particular that at least 20% goes to digitalization. Along with the green investments, which reaches at least, let's say 37 funding. According to the RRP, which as I mentioned, I have already been submitted, the majority of member states have linked between, this is our view at the moment, between 20 and 25 of their total national RRP budget to digital, which is a common trend for your information across member states with different levels of digitalization at the moment. So moving with our recent communication on the 2030 digital compass of March, 2021, a huge milestone as well. Actually the digital strategy of January 2020, if you recall is being updated in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The compass sets additional concrete connectivity targets for the following decade, for the current decade, focusing on four cardinal points, including digital infrastructure together with a monitoring approach, in particular with relation to the digital infrastructure, new 5G targets in addition to the 2025 intermediate ones, namely all populated areas covered, hopefully by 5G and gigabit connectivity by 2030. So as a next step and with a view to attaining those targets, the commission very recently, to which a goal actually developed a proposal for the path to the digital decade, which actually constitutes a robust governance framework to ensure in close cooperation, of course, with member states and private stakeholders, that every policy decision, every legislation and every funding decision is assessed against its contribution to the digital decade targets. It introduces a governance framework based on an animal cooperation mechanism with member states to discuss collective progress, take joint and targeted actions and invest in large-scale projects with other public and private stakeholders. Both the connectivity toolbox and the review legislative instrument of broadband cost reduction directive, which is ongoing, will contribute to the ambition of the digital decade by facilitating network deployment and providing for more simple and for simpler and harmonized procedures across the EU. Speaking of the digital decade, so let's take a look at a couple of figures before we move on. So next slide, please. Next slide, please. So take your time, see that these figures, so actually where we currently stand and where we envisage being by the end of this digital decade. So by leading up to these expectations, these objectives, the EU will be in a leading position with regard to both gigabit and 5G networks. You can see that with relation to 5G coverage, we now have 14% which of course needs to be improved. The Council of the European Union and the European Parliament will negotiate in the coming months the proposed path to the digital decade and agree on the final version of the legal text. So next slide, please. Next slide, please. So coming back to the connectivity toolbox, just to give you very briefly the political background that preceded the connectivity toolbox which is really interesting. Back in the beginning of last year when this pandemic broke out, followed by very, very strict confinement rules, we all realized that connectivity was critical for continuing working from home, for schooling, for business as well as for entertaining and interacting with each other. And very, very quickly this was escalated to the political leaders who realized that digital connectivity is key for Europe's recovery and also for allowing advanced digitization of the economy and the society as a whole. This would render us capable of enabling, let's say actually innovative services but also to support the twin transition which is also very important. I mean, green growth and digital transformation which go hand in hand. And then already in June 2020, the telecoms council calls on the commission and the member states to take measures in this regard and actually to improve the investment conditions by ensuring the timely availability of 5G spectrum and by taking measures to accelerate the deployment of fiber of very high capacity networks. A bit later in September 2020 when the then newly elected commission president underline made her first state of the union. She also was very, very clear highlighting that it was unacceptable. The situation regarding what we call the digital divide and she mentioned the next generation EU as an opportunity actually to focus on investments into secure connectivity. So with this background, we looked into where the measures missing and where we had to focus on and take action urgently to boost investment in these two pillars. The resulted commission recommendation of September 2020 actually calls on member states to agree on common union toolbox of best practices on connectivity focusing on both fiber and 5G. So next slide, please. Member states in cooperation with the commission within a dedicated special group developed and agreed on the connectivity toolbox on the 25th of March 2021, setting out clear measures on reducing the cost of deploying a very high capacity networks and on ready spectrum management for accelerating investment in 5G networks, pursuant of course to the respective recommendation. The special group was co-chaired by the German and Portuguese presidencies and the commission as well. And now as the process is still ongoing, these two German ships have been succeeded by the Slovenian and the French counterparts. The 39 connectivity toolbox best practices are based on the policy options, which is really important to mention that provided under the European Electronic Communication Code and the broadband cost reduction directive. Next slide, please. As regards the cost reduction measures, it sets out a number of critical measures. I won't stay long on this, on streamlining, permit granting procedures, improving transparency through the single information point, also expanding the right of access to existing physical infrastructure, dispute resolution mechanism. These are relevant in, as I said, in view of the ongoing parallel process of reviewing the broadband cost reduction directive. And their timely implementation is really, really important before new legislation comes into force within the next years. So next slide, please. Thank you. With regard to the access to 5G radio spectrum, the toolbox addresses appropriately the objectives of the recommendation of providing financial incentives for investment upon 5G spectrum auctions. For example, support of a payment of auction fees in installments or flexibility in authorizing millimeter web spectrum and also structuring the recurrent spectrum fees where it is necessary to incentivize rollout, as well as minimizing authorization delays, promoting regular review of the national spectrum plans and also the opportunity of infrastructure sharing, the combination of coverage obligations with financial incentives, using also financial aids as a complement to incentivize investment and structuring the process in a better and more efficient way. So with regard to the cross-border industrial use cases, here the toolbox falls a bit short of an ambitious toolset. We came up with four generic best practices, actually member states came up with four generic best practices in support of spectrum management for cross-border vertical use cases, relaying on advanced 5G wireless connectivity. It does not include a list of use cases with a cross-border dimension, yet it provides member states reasons for that. Albeit not part of the recommendation, another important issue which was not a part of the recommendation. However, the connectivity toolbox also includes best practices for increasing public transparency and trust in 5G deployment with view to addressing concerns as regards the electromagnetic impact, the EMF. So next slide, please. Thank you. While still a recommendation, the toolbox itself, it is a paramount that member states fully commit to the implementation of the toolbox. The agreement was based on a collective and consensual best effort exercise to stimulate its voluntary and coherent implementation by the member states. And by 30 of April, 2021, going now to the next milestones. And of course, this has already passed by 30 of April, 2021, each member states should have provided the commission with a roadmap for the implementation of the toolbox. This roadmap should present an initial assessment of the usefulness of each and every best practice according to the national situation to their national and specificities. Also, this roadmap should reflect the expected plan regarding the implementation of best practices, providing an indicative timing and potential stakeholders for implementation. And now by 30 of April, 2022, each member states should report on the implementation of the toolbox as you can imagine from the schedule I provided you with the process. Sorry for that. Sorry, sorry. The process of the implementation of the national roadmap is still ongoing. So as a general remark, I would say I would like to stress that for the commission connectivity remains the most fundamental building block of the digital transformation. So, okay. Sorry for that. My colleague insists. And as I was saying, it remains the building block of the digital transformation and we put a lot of effort into this. So next slide, please. So without my presentation comes to an end and I would like to thank you for your attention. So over to you, Mr. Erdavid. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Vikopoulos for your very interesting presentation. Now we will continue with two presentations from experts from National Regulatory Authority from Western Balkans countries. My colleague, Mr. Elvis Babicic, who is General Manager for Fixed and Mobile Radio Communications in Equip Montenegro, will have presentation with the topic Developing IG's X-System in Montenegro. Mr. Babicic, the floor is yours. Thank you, Boris. First of all, I would like to say that I'm very happy to see you all colleagues on this conference after two years. I will deliver my speech today in Montenegro language and I will now switch to Montenegro language. The topic of my presentation today is the activities that we, in Montenegro, before all the activities that the agency has done on building a free ambiance and regulatory authority for effective implementation and further development of mobile communication networks of the 5th generation. Here is the content of my presentation. I will switch to it because of a short time on specific things. So when we talk about the current status of development of mobile communication networks in Montenegro, we have implemented the network of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th generation, the LTM networks understand the 2 or 3-liter aggregation of the carrier, one of the characteristics of the company is that it is still not implemented by the voice of the LTE, and from the IoT technology, it is implemented in a few locations on the MBIOT. As for the coverage, the LTM network signal is quite solid, it is covered by about 98% of the status, while the coverage of the signal that allows the service to be transferred by data of 10 megabits per second to a link of about 97% of the population. The last measurements that we did in June of this year were only for one operator, but with regard to the total installation and number of users, we imagine that the results are similar to the urban areas where about 75% of Montenegro population lives. The average speed on the link was about 60 megabits per second, and in 90% of the average session, the average speed on the link was already 17 megabits per second. When we talk about 5G networks, that is, in Montenegro, 5G mobile networks are still not commercially available, which is more than just one operator for a few months, he worked on the first and only test of 5G technology. This is based on refarming of 2 GHz, testing only the service of data transfer of a certain number of gigabits per second. In the meantime, the agency has conducted several activities to speed up the implementation of the network. We have conducted general consultations around the strategy for the implementation of 5G mobile networks. We have also carried out all technical and regulatory conditions for the use of frequencies, the frequencies that have been identified as the best implementation of 5G networks at a regulatory level. We have also conducted general consultations related to the addition of 3 GHz to 5G networks. In addition, we have also conducted general consultations related to the addition of a spectrum for mobile networks. During the final phase of preparation for one auction, the next will be next year, and there will be more words later during the presentation. Also, in the phase of construction, the project for data, for one kind of structural knowledge, studies on measures for authorisation of 5G base stations, aspects affecting the electromagnetic radiation in the environment. In understanding that the implementation of 5G mobile networks is a very complex process where many activities are not directly related to the regulator and where the whole society has to give its contribution, the agency decided to secure the institution of a structural document which we called a study on the strategy for the implementation of 5G mobile networks in Montenegro. For the use of these studies, we conducted general consultations with all of the interesting subjects and we have also conducted general consultations with all of the interesting subjects. The experts that we have developed conducted over a hundred subjects from various fields, from mobile operators, companies in that sector, companies in other industrial sectors, public services, academic associations and we were asked to share our thoughts, views on which way it is best to implement 5G mobile networks in Montenegro in a sustainable way. We received a response of 27 subjects and in principle, in conclusion, we can discuss in the following way. The implementation of mobile operators in the entire company from the IT sector does not exist in a certain extent in terms of the potential of 5G networks and in the way that in the vertical industries 5G mobile networks can bring efficiency and a general increase in business. As for mobile operators, they are generally interested in developing 5G networks in Montenegro, but without some strict obligations in terms of coverage or quality of service to ensure access to the spectrum in terms of convenience, in terms of the longer period and to eventually keep subvention of the building infrastructure in areas where they have no commercial interest. In order for 5G technology to be introduced through a wide-ranging approach, i.e. transfer of data to the network of a few gigabytes per second, and for other types of 5G services to be introduced later, depending on the needs of the market. As the main obstacles of mobile operators are very complex, ineffective and long-term procedures to improve the construction of electronic communication and infrastructure. This is also thought of the construction of base stations and the establishment of optical connected paths. And also one of the important barriers were recognized as long-term and very long-term processes to get the land that is owned by the state. As for the risks of 5G technology to be introduced, in accordance with the requirements of the base station, cyber security and protection of the data. On the basis of the requirements of these operators that I previously talked about and on the basis of the analysis of the relevant data that the agency developed, the team of experts of the Electro-Technical Faculty in Podgorica increased with an expert from the Cyber Security region from the Warsaw University. They did a study on the strategy of implementation of mobile networks in Montenegro and the goal was to identify, among other things, technological, regulatory, security and structural challenges of this restriction and barriers for the development of mobile communication networks of the 5th generation, including 5G infrastructure and to offer responsible measures in which these barriers can be removed with the general goal that the agency set that 5G mobile services in Montenegro will be available until the end of 2022. The study is very extensive and structured as a whole document that offers 22 activities. It is set in an optional plan from 8 steps and presents the ideal basis for the development of the national 5G strategy that we hope will accelerate the future of the 10th generation. The activities identified are activities that need to be done on their own. Some of the tasks are not only related to what the agency is doing, even the Ministry of Resources, but also other ministries, the authorities and other institutions in the public sector. The general conclusion is that the complete activities should be carried out with some government level. The action and the plan 8 steps are to understand the harmonization of regulatory equipment with the EU equipment, first of all, the implementation of the code, the implementation of the directive to reduce the cost of putting the network on the ground, to ensure adequate frequency resources that have already been done in the best possible way, the implementation of the 5G pilot and the test project, something of that happened. Probably it would be useful to test and be with a little more variants than what happened. In addition to the spectrum of reforms in the legislation, in the area of building infrastructures and the construction of the network, there is a large increase in the awareness of the benefits that the 5G brings about the possibilities and adequate communication with the requirements. The implementation is not... Excuse me, please finalize the presentation because we have time for the other participants. Okay. Also, the study identifies the need to increase frame capacity in all the factors that are significant in this process and gives the suggestion of communication with cyber security and protection of the data. What the agency has done in the meantime is to ensure responsible spectral resources for implementation of the 5G mobile networks, so that the 5G pioneering sector is focused on the initial plan aimed at improving the system to achieve the corresponding channel range of technical conditions. It is very important here that, even in Montenegro, it is very much free of charge here of the 7G network, it cannot be used for 5G because of the interference of the digital TV producers from neighboring countries, Albania and Italy. We hope that this problem will be solved when the final year of the definition of the above-mentioned EU decision is solved. Also, the location and frequency of the 3G network is 3.6Ghz and 26Ghz. The agency has made a public consultation with the mobile operator and the mobile network sector. Basically, it is decided that all the location resources of the 2G network will be carried out in two steps. The first option, which will be in the starting phase of the preparation and will be launched in the next few weeks, will be re-introduced to the frequency that is related to free frequency of 2.6Ghz. Mobile operators were not ready to introduce this year because of the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on their business. The agency accepted this argument and decided that next year, during the year 2022, free frequency of 7.6Ghz and 3.6Ghz will be introduced for the existing interest and to offer the frequency of the remaining 1.500Ghz, 2.6Ghz and 26Ghz for which the operators said that they were not interested in using them in the middle of the period. Just a minute more, if I may, it is clear that the implementation of 5Ghz mobile operators will be gradual in the first phase to be supported only in the upcoming mobile broadband service and the rest of the services will be included later so that the network based on LTE technology will remain dominant for at least the next 5 years. Many are reasons for the fact that there will be a need for their further improvement, including the implementation of some technologies that are standardized and the engagement of additional spectral resources. It is also possible that this technology that exists at the same time that increases the operational complexity and the costs. It is also clear from our studies and from all our researchers that there is no single access to implementation of 5Ghz and their sustainable development and that 5Ghz ecosystem and its construction is a long-term process that must be included in any society and that is the key synergy of the mobile IT industry on the one hand and the vertical industries on the other hand. As I said before, 5Ghz services will be available in Montenegro by the end of 2022. We hope that the national 5Ghz strategy will be adopted as part of the spectrum of this year for mobile operators to implement 5Ghz services that are not recognized as a pioneer 5Ghz on the basis of farming and next year we will add a frequency of pioneer 5Ghz and mobile operators will have the opportunity to implement 5Ghz services that will be available by the end of 2022. Thank you, Alice for your detailed information about our situation and our plans during this and next year. Now our next speaker is Mr Jani Akimovski who is head of radio communication sector in the agency for electronic communication and he will present their activities in this field. Mr Akimovski, take the floor. Please. Thank you Boris. I will try to be short as possible and keep the time frame of 10 minutes. So I will skip the context so in our country we started 5G implementation in the beginning of 2020 year. Then we have public consultation for issuing frequency authorization for 5G we ask the stakeholders about the frequency which they are interested and the way how they will use it. On that public consultation we received the comments from 15 operators Makinovski Telecom and A1 Macedonia from Neotel and from Intercom Telecom and AOO summary of the public consultation was that there is no operator who is interested for all offered frequency bands there was no interest for earhards band and operators ask for possible inclusion in the auction of 2.1 earhards band. Also operators propose the longer duration of the licenses in our proposal we propose 15 plus 5 years they ask for longer duration of the licenses and operators agree with the synchronization of networks and there was also from call to stop the 5G procedure from the citizens due to the fake news from the net. So there are the frequency bands assigned to our operators unfortunately we have only 2 operators 2 mobile network operators from Macedonian market and with the changes of national frequency allocation plan and national assignment plan we allow operators to use the existing bands for 5G but currently there is no there is still no commercial 5G network launched in the already assigned bands for the new bands for the 700 megahertz band all of you know the framework agreement from Godolo after that agreement we start with clearing the 700 megahertz band we propose the we have a lot of meetings with dvbt operators A1 and public enterprise national broadcasting we prepare the migration plan and it's execution finished in february 2020 so that band in Macedonia is clear and ready for use the band 3.x there we had one Pimax operator now they are using the LTE technology the Macedonian company Neotel they was in the middle but we removed them from the beginning of the band in order to avoid the interference between the 5G and LTE network because we we are planning to use to be the synchronization of the network obligatory for the operators and to use the 5G frame from the ECC recommendation so we have three frequency parts with band lit of 2 megahertz for the national coverage the band 26 gigahertz is used by the fixed service in Macedonia and we have a lot of fixed links there but they are not in the whole band but only in the parts so for the beginning we found 1.8 gigahertz 3 band which is ready for use to operator and when we assign all that band we are planning to move the links away from this band to be whole band available for the mobile services in June this year we according to our law we announced our intention to conduct a public tender provision and we stated that we offer to the operators 2 times 30 megahertz 300 megahertz in 3.5 and 800 megahertz in the 26 gigahertz band during the public hearing lasted until July this year only three letters of interested operators were received there was bitstream mobile new entrant possible new entrant from the market and A1 Macedonia and Mackiansky telecom the existing operators so we do the benchmark analysis and propose to the government one time fee for the licenses so according to our calculations we take all the citizens the purchasing parity of the Macedonian citizens and other factors and found that the one time fee should be around 6 million euros for 700 megahertz band and 3 million euros for 3 gigahertz band also because we are only country with only 2 network operators we want to have 3 operators and 2 for that reason we propose for the 2 licenses 1 in 700 band and 1 in 3 gigahertz band to be reserved for the new entrant on the market and the one time fee to be for one time fee to have this count of 50% license duration will be 20 years as I mentioned previously the coverage obligations will be according to the national operational broader plan that is the plan which ministry adopted I think it was before 3 years there is a part about the action plan what should the agency do in order to execute the plan so there are the coverage obligations they are not the same as it is in Europe action plan but the ministry decided that we will be a little bit late from the Europe action plan so what are the future activities we are now is the procedure in the government to give a consent to the proposed one time fee or the proposed the order one time fees after that when we get it we will publish a tender and we will have a bidding and after that we after the results of the auction we will issue the frequency licenses so as the summary we still have our operators are testing 5G networks but we don't have commercial lunch still not we are expecting during the next year to have a commercial lunch of the 5G network in Macedonia I hope so that I keep the 10 minutes slot and what explorer is yours Thank you Mr. Yakimovsky for your inspirative and detailed presentation for us from western Balkans countries are very important experiences from our neighbour countries who are members of European Union but most of us know that National Regulatory Authority of the Republic of Croatia and the Republic of Slovenia finalised the 5G auction process in the previous months next speaker is Mr. Kreshnir Mazur who is senior expert in spectrum management department in Croatian regulatory authority for network industries Mr. Mazur, the floor is yours Hello once again to everyone thank you Boris for introduction I will now hopefully share my presentation second so I hope everybody can see the presentation ok so let's start so I will give you a short overview of the process of 5G auction in Croatia that we just finished in August so I will skip the content to keep the time general introduction so geographically Croatia has difficulties to provide quality service in all parts of Croatia but we so far have a quality service so we have more than 1,000 islands total land area above 56,000 square kilometres and the population is around 4 million people DESI index in 2020 we were ranked on 20 position so short market overview we have three mobile national stakeholders Croatia telecom which is in Deutsche Telekom Group A1 Croatia and Telemach it was Tele2 until March 2020 market players in fixed network so we have Croatia Telekom Group A1 Croatia we have around 40 other regional and national operators and in general market share of HD Group and A1 in fixed market in 2020 is shown in the end of the slide next so what was the situation before the auction so national licences until 2024 so A1 and HD have the majority of the spectrum below 1 GHz something more different is above 1 GHz Telemach was third operator so they didn't gain on time the spectrum below 1 GHz regional licence in northern part of Croatia in two counties is licensed to Otelekomunikacie until 2023 and they have 70 MHz of spectrum in the band 3.42 3.47 GHz so here is just the graphical view of the licence spectrum before the auction so we can see that big difference in the licence spectrum below 1 GHz to Telemach in comparison to A1 and HD so now let's start with our plans before the auction so we the idea was to have four separate SMRA auctions for each band so we had 700 MHz band in auction 3.6 on national level 3.6 on regional level and 26 GHz band so in 3.6 GHz on national level we we had 320 MHz and 80 MHz for the regional operators and we have in 26 GHz 1 GHz of spectrum in the upper part of the band national licenses are not allowed to compete for the regional 3.6 spectrum the qualification for the auction was defined as a percent of reserve price for the maximum amount of the spectrum for which each operator plans to bid and the auction was planned in two stages so the main auction stage where bidder competes for generic blocks and the second stage is allocation stage in the single round sealed bid location of the blocks in the band so in 700 MHz we had 3 blocks of 2x10 MHz with reserve price per block 6 million euros and the spectrum cap for each operator was defined 1 block of 2x10 MHz in total 20 3.6 GHz frequency band so as I said we had 32 blocks of 10 MHz on the national level and 8 blocks of 10 MHz on regional or county level reserve prices for 1 block of 10 MHz on the national level was 700 700,000 euros and for 1 block of 10 MHz on the regional level it was between 1.8 8,000 to 37,000 euros depending on the population of the county spectrum cap on the national level was 12 blocks per operator so in total it makes 120 MHz and on the regional level there were not spectrum cap for frequencies but for counties so each operator could get 4 counties on regional level with the maximum of 8 blocks so in total 320 MHz per operator so at the regional level bidding was conducted for 7 blocks from 3,410 to 3,480 MHz and the first block of 10 MHz was awarded to the winner of the first upper block in 26 GHz we had 5 blocks of 200 MHz with reserve price for a block of 2 million euros spectrum cap was 2 blocks of so 2 times 200 MHz or in total 400 MHz per operator and the club use was allowed to double of awarded spectrum if other operator in the same area don't use it so obligations for the winners of spectrum 700 MHz 5G coverage obligations we wanted to be in line with our national strategy for broadband networks so mostly till the end of 2025 winners of 700 MHz should cover majority of population urban areas there are 2 steps so in first step till the end of 2025 they have to cover 25% of total rural areas and until the end of 2027 50% of total rural areas they have also obligation to cover traffic traffic network so obligation is until the end of 2025 to cover 99% of the total length of the highways and 95% of total length of selected railways there was also defined 4G or 5G coverage obligation so they have obligation to cover until the end of 2024 25% of population in 60 selected underserved settlements so how we get the 60 selected underserved settlements so we received complaints from the users in some areas and we did some internal calculations of the coverage and that is how we came to 60 settlements in the first three years operatives have to cover 80% of total area of 20 selected underserved municipalities of special interest so special interest is in these municipalities because for the services as medical police and problem military so these are the border areas and also these municipalities cover areas that we had earthquake last year with the big damage underserved settlements and municipalities were divided into three groups of obligations which are linked to each of the two times 10 megahertz block in 700 megahertz signal quality requirement was defined at least minus 110 dbm of reference signal received power so just please take in mind about time for your presentation and if you could finalize in the next minute. I'm sorry just a graphical overview of the urban and rural areas of the transport routes and of the groups of obligations that are linked to blocks in 700 megahertz they had also obligation in 3.6 gigahertz not so strict obligations so one base station until 2022 and to the end of 10.25 200 base station on the regional level we have one base station until 2022 and by the end of 10.24 in the northern part of Croatia where we have already licenses infrastructure sharing obligations so passive infrastructure sharing is also already prescribed by applicable regulation and legal acts and they have obligation to share active infrastructure and national roaming and NVNO whole sale access so all the licenses are issued for 15 years with the possibility of extension for maximum 5 years so we had two payment options one off payment and payment in 10 installments so the auction results in 700 megahertz we all three national operators gained the same amount of the spectrum so here is the graphical overview of the blocks with the obligations they they got in 3.6 gigahertz also all three national operators had gained the spectrum Croatia telecom gained 20 megahertz more than the other two in 26 gigahertz we have a new player Eolo from Italy so all four operators so three operators gained 200 megahertz and Croatia telecom get 400 megahertz we are really happy with the results of the regional auction so this is the graphical overview of the counties that were operators gained their spectrum so only six counties left without license spectrum so overall results we are very happy with overall results because our intention was not to squeeze all the financials from the operators but to provide and ensure positive investment positive investment positive investment positive investment for the operators so to keep money in developing of their network so this is this is for me I'm sorry for the time you are welcome and thank you Mr. Mazzo thank you my analyst is Ms. Janja Varshek head of radio frequencies management department in agency for communication networks and services of the Republic of Slovenia I would like to stress that before four days Akos celebrated 20th anniversary on behalf of the agency and myself I would like to congratulate management and all colleagues Akos this significant Mr. Varshek the floor is yours thank you Boris and also congratulations for your 20 years thank you let me share my screen dear participants of this session good morning I would like I would also like to thank the organizers and ITU to invite me to this very interesting event I will give you a quick overview about Slovenian multi-band auction here is timeline of our procedure we started procedure in May 2020 when we started to discuss information memorandum with our consultant information memorandum was published at the beginning of August and it was finished at the end of October after that we started to prepare a tender documentation we published it at the end of year deadline for application was in the middle of February and auction itself was held on April 7th and 16th April then we issued licenses in June this year here is 4G coverage in Slovenia A1 has more than 99% of population 93% of the territory Telecom Slovenia more than 99% of population 96.9% of the territory and Telemach more than 98% of population and 90% of territory here is also here are also spectrum holdings before the auction Telecom Slovenia had 240MHz A1 had 235 Telemach 90MHz and T2 photo operator only 35MHz of spectrum this was included in this spectrum is included also 2.1MHz gear care spectrum which was offered in this new auction so we subject of this tender was 700 700 supplementary downlink 1.5G 2.1G part of 2.3G part of 3.6G and part of 26GHz here is also everything on the picture the red spectrum is for expected for local usage for next tender according to the spectrum holdings we set also spectrum caps we set spectrum cap 2x 35MHz of FDD spectrum below 1GHz then we plan to have 190MHz of spectrum in 2.3G and 3.6G and during the public consultation of information memorandum we then decided only for 160MHz in 3.6GHz spectrum we set the cap 800MHz in 26GHz and we also put overall cap 425MHz in all FD spectrum we set also some since the coverage in Slovenia was set very severe very severe obligation were set during the last auction we set only general coverage obligation in one year they should start using frequencies so they offer frequencies they offer services in at least one major city in Slovenia after five years they should offer services to end users using all these frequencies and used services they should start use them in at least one major city we put additional coverage obligation for 700MHz FD band in this band should license holders cover 99% of inhabitants of Republic of Slovenia 99% of motorhousing highways more than 60% of main roads and regional roads Category 1 and 2 and more than 60% of the active railways with passenger traffic where in-train coverage is not included we set also some coverage obligation with 5G action plan for Europe all license holders which will which won 700 2.1, 2.3 or 3.6 should support 5G technology which means release 15 or newer specification and after three months after licenses they should start offer commercial 5G services in at least one of these acquired frequency bands in at least one major city and until end of 25 they should provide commercial services in all major cities and apply to one more than 70 megahertz of contingent spectrum they should provide as well EMBB and support massive IoT so all three major operators gain more than 70 megahertz so they all should meet this obligation we also promote sharing sharing of passive and active infrastructure or as spectrum pooling business arrangement or national roaming job deployment of infrastructure active sharing and frequency pooling around are allowed within a framework that does not limit infrastructure competition and sharing, frequency sharing is allowed in some challenging areas and Trigger National Park critical road section border and so on we also put some synchronization demand and they synchronization should be in frame B until end of 2025 and after that the license holders could propose synchronization system since the security is a big concern they should meet all relevant national and European legislation and international recognized standard best practices and they should introduce and maintain adequate and non-proportional organization technical measures for managing risk to the security and safety of information let me say something about our auction format with our consultants we decided for enhanced SMRA auction this auction is simple but effective and allows Bidder to choose the optimal set of frequency from different frequency bands this format has a mechanism that bidders in each round determine the demand in each load category number of flows they would like to acquire at the current price of each round they can always keep their bit from previous rent or they can decrease or increase demand there are some risks and weaknesses of this auction format format has there could be exposure risk in each category so we said bidders had number they were able to select a minimal viable acceptable amount of slots for each category so they there was also exposure risk between a lot categories so we put condition and that if they didn't win a lot in one category they could drop the demand in other category there is also there was also risk of unsolved spectrum so we we envisioned an additional auction for unsolved spectrum there could be also strategic strategic bidding this is difficult to prevent completely so we we had limited information for bidders during the auction and there was also possible additional bidding restriction but there could be also possible additional bidding restriction but it would be it would be on account of complexity of the auction here is a stream of our auction there was main auction there could be resale auction and then assignment stage which for each frequency event let's say something about auction itself as I told you before it was held during between 7th and 16th of April we had four bidders we had 41 rounds of main auction we sold all the spectrum so there was no need for resale auction and we had six assignment rounds for band 7 700 FDD 1.5 MHz 2.1 MHz 3.6 and 26 GHz so we acquired 164 MHz a little bit more than 164 MHz and administrative costs of our auction were 678,000 EUR please finalize your I have only a few slides more I will be very brief here are a combination of achieved prices you see 700 MHz all bands were under average except 2.1 which was renewal of the bands here are bands acquired by each operator here are the picture of the spectrum before and after the auction and spectrum all together there is some mistakes sorry and maybe I have to add that our food operator he too challenged all our decisions before the auction after the auction and also challenged all the licenses we have a lot of work to answering all these legal procedures thank you miss Vasek for your useful and interesting presentation dear panelists thank you for your presentations and I believe that experiences and plans regarding 5G will be and useful for our future activities and will encourage all of us to accelerate deployment of 5G network services as we heard today the development of 5G will not happen at once but will evolve gradually each phase of the gradual introduction of 5G will have its own progress that may need our attention so I believe that this topic will be actual for the more years and probably we will continue discussion about our results and achievements of deployment of 5G network services during the regional regulatory forum which will be organized I hope in Budva during the end of September of 2022 due to the fact that time for this session has almost expired or expired if you have any question please send them via chat and the respective panelists will give you answers you can also leave your email if the panelists cannot respond by the end of today's meeting at the end on behalf of the Agency for Electronic Communications and Postal Services of Montenegro I would like to take this opportunity to thank the speakers and all of you for your participation and contribution during these two days of the regional regulatory forum Mr. Ponder, the floor is yours Thank you very much Mr. Javic Thank you very much also our panelists and participants but we are working very hard for the last two hours so that's why we would propose still to make a quick break if we could propose just five minutes to refill the cups of coffee to do the necessary and catch up with the calls so let's meet back at 11.30 and to try to start on time so thank you very much for the time being and see you very very soon thank you very much and the next session will be focusing on the mapping systems so thank you and see you very soon ladies and gentlemen and welcome after this very executive coffee break and we are very pleased to kick off the next session let me double check still if everybody is still connected or is connecting reconnecting just now I think that everybody is already connected so let's start ladies and gentlemen it's my great pleasure to welcome you at this third session from market analysis to market visualization enabling environments for evidence based regulation today we have a great pleasure to be joined by speakers who are making the real change at the regional level and real practitioners of those who are building the national systems on the daily basis and making sure that the systems are effectively used as the tool to improve the regulatory proceedings but also being used as the source of the information for reducing the information asymmetry for the end users so ladies and gentlemen this evidence based decision making is more and more at the heart of the regulatory policies providing insights into the status of networks and informing decisions and this session will investigate how NRAs are using or planning to use problem mapping and other tools to support the achievement of the policy objectives at the country level we have with us today the representative of Albania of France of Poland and Bosnia and Herzegovina and the beginning I would like to invite each of you to make the presentation and the statement of 8 to 10 minutes in order to leave some space for the open discussion and to for any kind of the questions which could come so I encourage also all stakeholders to put the questions in the Q&A I think this is the normal practice or reach out directly already to the speakers who are at your disposal to respond to any questions which could come up so first let me introduce and invite Mr. Kondor first of all I would like to thank you very much for this invitation to take part in this event it's a great pleasure to be here today and thank you Mr. Kondor thank you Mr. Kondor first of all I would thank you very much for this invitation to take part it's a great pleasure to be here to share my presentation for mapping infrastructure system and also to learn about for the other experience from the other countries congratulations for this event in those two days and a key for the contribution for this event now let's start with my presentations share it or okay now let's start with my presentations I kept based on the law on the electronic communication in the Republic of Albania amended and the law 120 for development electronic communication network has built their atlas system centralized information system for the electronic communication network is the GIS portal for electronic communications infrastructure administered by the ACEP which provides electronic publications and updating information for infrastructure and warranty access for all operator to this information centralized information system is based in principle of transparency reciprocity and proportionality the system is open for the access for the information for the electronic communication operators and the other interested entities according to the rules adopted to the operation of the system the impact of the global pandemic for the operators in the electronic communications was felt in the throat of Albania society in the both public and private sector since the first weeks of the March 2020 the entire electronic communications sector and postal services as well as deeply impacted from the perspective of the organization operation integrity and consistent to their network and services in regard to to support the capacity to guarantee the series of fundamental public and services ACEP adopted to all the restriction users to rigorously enforce in official real situations and protocol and never interrupting its regulatory and coordination mission and the recommendation with the cooperation resulting from international organization in the European Union in these situations lets us to need to develop a strategy that would not ensure network for the electronic communication integrity in this time of crisis but also fundamental user for principles and rights as a result of the first week for the lockdown ACEP ensured with cooperation of the Ministry of International Affairs Interrupted maintenance for primary network infrastructure to ensure the services for communication warranty free movement for a lot of a lot of team of technical to guarantee the network for the electronic communications a lot of a lot of technician were able to move freely from the field but only to ensure the network maintenance but also to assist users for their another during the impact the pandemic period ACEP staff has contributed to the draft roadmap for reducing roaming tariffs in western Balkans the objective of the roadmap roadmap are defined by the statement to support the digital agenda for the Balkans the roadmap is to establish the direct correlation between reducing EU and western Balkans roaming charges and efficiency improvement of investment environment for digital infrastructure strategic objective in the five years roadmap is to reduction retail roaming charges between the EU and western Balkans in the level to close the whole network domestic checks element for the roadmap on the western Balkans and the EU roaming charges reducing to endorse by western Balkan economies and to support his four pillars crucial for the implementation of the full field increase the transparency monitoring alignment with the EU and improving the business by implementing the the western Balkan economies in three years period will remove the administrative streamline and the this this is for to regarding for the atlas facilitate access the physical infrastructure suitable for development high capacity networks in these points the atlas systems is his importance in order to have a more accurate presentations in the development of the high capacity networks ensure timely to invest friendly access to use the 5G radio spectrum atlas mapping system atlas GIS is currently available and it was built for shared infrastructure use of electronic communication networks this platform consists in data about the fixed communication networks both in optical fiber co-operate cable infrastructure and wireless radio networks mobile and satellite infrastructure and passive infrastructure the data for the fixed and mobile network comes in the form in shapefiles which includes metadata for for the next operator methodology types dimension materials all electronic communication operator in this platform for registering their in atlas system all the information in the system is recorded regarding fixed communication network both in fiber and co-operate cable and system region based in extensive mapping in existing backbone infrastructure including existing docs in other in other elements for passive and passive infrastructure the GIS is currently used only for shared infrastructure for all the electronic communication operators currently atlas system does not include information about the end user for the end user infrastructure last mile in public and private building AKEP has a new project for this years in 2020 the council of ministers has adopted highly important legislation and acts regarding the sustainable broadband development national program and spectrum policy the council of ministers adopted adoption for the 2020 2025 national plan for sustainable development construction development provides the task for AKEP to improve the broadband atlas the ministry of infrastructure and energy is the responsible ministry for the communication for the broadband development is responsible for the implementation of the national broadband plan and development policies and programs in the electronic communication sector AKEP is the regulatory body for the electronic communication market in Albania in low 99.80 AKEP in cooperation with me has applied at western Balkan investment framework the project for development for broadband atlas in Albania this project the proposal is to support Albania for the development of the atlas system in order to include information for last-minute connectivity for infrastructure mapping service mapping demand investment mapping based on international based practice and model this project is approved by the western Balkan secretariat and in this cooperation near AKEP consultant and the lead finance institution we have prepared a theme for reference for the technical assistance required for preparation for the previously studied for development of the broadband atlas atlas for Albania innovation for the new system that AKEP has applied with cooperation of me there are coverage situation for the broadband will be the coverage situation in Albania the atlas system will show the coverage system for the network in Albania maps will provide information both in optical fiber and network and the state of the mobile communication networks regarding the coverage of chaos the project will enable the identification of the broadband infrastructure to the end user in the last minute of broadband infrastructure to the public and the private building this project will increase transparency in the exchange information for the broadband public and private improve the policies policy making for and planning in the digital sector to increase the efficiency of the broadband investment and the user investment network by public this process will help to generate reports on the strategic development of the broadband infrastructure this will help to identify investment needs finance requirements and service mapping that last system should provide information analytical capability transparency for fixed mobile and fixed and mobile network availability what bandwidth is possible in the residential area information network provider are active and available in the residential area information about the active and passive infrastructure detail of operators offering broadband internet within the selected area number of subscribers with broadband access from the fixed residential network in given area number of subscribers with broadband access from fixed networks selecting broadband network speed for user which is more than 1 megabit or 100 megabit and technology fixed and mobile in residential area broadband internet coverage with technology, DSL cable, FTTT and download bandwidth speed the color displayed for availability for white bandwidth in the mapping and appearance for the white area for market needs at that last system should enable the generation of statistical reports on broadband internet internet usage like a number of users technology user can provide and services internet services by levels and the possibility to generate such a statistical information through that last system will enable more period panorama for the provision the internet service in the country after this implementation the GIA system will offer the opportunity to generate reports for the use of broadband internet in Albania bandwidth available white spots network provide download bandwidth and mobile coverage this will help provision universal services obligation and addressing broadband access and digital gap by identification of white zones and investment demands that last mapping system is currently available but was built only for shared infrastructure of public electronic electronic communication networks this platform consists of data about fixed telecommunication network both optical fiber and copper cable infrastructure and wireless radio system was built as multi-user system which offer the possibility to manage different roles for every user there are three of services one for public management and one for the operators mapping system offer the possibility to all operators and administrative unit to update and create their own communication maps in that at last system are registered more than 240 operators that have the obligation to register their network in accordance with applicable laws and regulations there are three mobile operators data collection from the network operator are based to the unique model which are defined attributes all operators have two ways to register their network and system one with import from the cap with defined data model and another way to update their network on that last system all operators regularly update their network in that last system at least two times for a year and within 30 days to reflect the new installation on the system internet broadband infrastructure broadband services and provided through a variety network communication there are cable network like a fiber fiber networks and the radio networks like GSM, MTC and its network radio infrastructure there is a map for the coverage of the radio networks that are registered for the from the operators in the Albania like and GSM there is coverage of the fiber optics in Albania I kept with cooperation with all the operators is better in all the necessary information for the nation backbone actually we have a collaboration with ITWolf to update all the necessary information with ITU interactive transmission maps we have collected all the information for this map this request there is network infrastructure map the main reason for this obligation is to optimize the infrastructure development avoid cost to setting up the new networks for sharing the possible construction better planning and cost sharing and total low total ownership cost in the ATLAS system is created the mobile choice monitoring the ATLAS system for each operators are published the choice indicators for each technology years below silent monitoring for 2G silent monitoring for 3G silent monitoring for 4G and data down down 3G for each operators this is my presentation thank you very much for your attention thank you very much thank you very much for a very exhaustive and detailed presentation of the system is really great to see these developments and the further plans which you are going to implement shortly and thanks a lot for great collaboration also with the ITU in this context and this brings us to our next speaker and now let's move to the west of Europe to France and it's my great pleasure to invite Antonin Borknon deputy head of the Coverage and Trollouts Unit at the electronic communications postal and print media distribution at the regulatory authority ARCEP of France so the floor is yours now your muted so possibly we would like to invite you to our mute and also just last call to keep the time frame we try to avoid interrupting the intervention but so 8 to 10 minutes thank you is it better now? absolutely perfect so thank you for inviting ARCEP to this panel I am Antonin Borknon deputy head of the Coverage and Trollouts Unit at ARCEP my unit is responsible for the broadband data on maps I will speak today about the data we collect, share, and use for studies that oriented regulation and I will firstly present you our maps and then free case studies that are using this data for regulation related studies so let's do first a tour of our maps we arrived here at a map that displays the maximum reception speed excluding satellite with a precision up to the address level so for instance if I zoom to the municipality of Re-sur-Hauti in the Pas-de-Calais we can see with a very granular level of information what maximum speed is available so here it's dark blue it means that we have more than one gigabyte of maximum download speed and in the neighboring municipality of Don Pierre-sur-Hauti the situation is more diverse with even some areas in yellow and red where maximum download speed is less than 10 megabytes per second in this map if we zoom you can go up to the address level and for each address you have operators that provide services by technology so here for Fiber we have this list of operators that are providing Fiber and we have a reception on uploading speed of internet so in this address we have Fiber, DSL fixed 4G on satellite with this level of granularity we can do the statistics by municipalities so here I will change the map and we can see here the access of 30 megabytes on over for instance if I click on the municipality I see that in Re-sur-Hauti 96% of premises have access to 30 megabytes on more and in Don Pierre-sur-Hauti the neighboring municipality the figure is only 32% that can access to 30 megabytes on more so this is our first map I will come back later with studies that use this kind of data and I will show you now our map that is dedicated to FTTH rollouts and I take another example here so let's go to Lavineuse it's in Sonnais-Lois in another department and so in Lavineuse I will take we have six different maps of FTTH rollouts and the one I wanted to show you today is the one of mutualization points so each of the areas here are deployed I mean are dependent on one mutualization point of FTTH so we can see with the coloration the advancement of the deployment of each area so blue means like over 95% and in Lavineuse or case study it's white so it's not deployed yet okay at the fourth quarter of 2020 but if I switch to the first quarter of 2021 you see that it became blue so if I click I have some details so for instance I know that the coverage is 96% in terms of fiber I can zoom even and get like this detail by address so when it's green it means it's deployed here in the village on the west it's yellow it's green but not deployed deployed in terms of FTTH we have also some forecasts in terms of FTTH so it's another map let me access it so this color means deployment is ongoing or finished and in the north of Vitrilec-Luni in this municipality it's green and this green means that the work of FTTH rollouts will start in 2022 so this was a quick turn for broadband maps they are used by a general audience that is generally checking what is available at their address and when FTTH will be available and it's used as well by local and national administrations to monitor the connectivity in their territories now let's switch back to a presentation to show you three case studies that we did in ASAP case study number one is following the engagements of operators for FTTH rollouts so in France in most areas only one network operator will deploy FTTH only in this map you see all the areas where they have a deadline to deploy FTTH on the areas that we are interested in today have a dark red on dark orange that are deployed by SFR on orange respectively it's 17 million premises on operators have to cover 92% by the end of 2020 so the deadline is gone on 100% of the area by the end of 2022 on ASAP has to follow these deadlines on the engagements of the operators so we have to set up the target so it means that we have to count the premises that needs to be deployed in the area it's a work since this target differs from the figures we get from the national institute of statistic in terms of number of premises because it's not exactly the same number one is a statistical one one is dedicated to FTTH rollouts so we have to set up a target and then we are counting the green dots that I show you in the area to make the figure on the curve so this is one example of usage of data and we have many studies that we use for instance FTTH rollouts to check the speed in a certain area to see if it's dynamic enough or not or we can check for areas that are not sufficiently covered in terms of broadband network in general we have as well to do prospective studies so this is the case study 2 and 3 about prospective studies so case study 2 so the government ask us to evaluate a future policy of universal series so we did a forecast of broadband access between 2020 and 2025 studying 2 thresholds so access to 8 MB per second and access to 30 MB per second so for this we have to combine some data and I show you the map so the data of the current situation is the first map I show you so we know at each address what is the connectivity data of the FTTH rollout forecast so to know when FTTH will be deployed by area and we had also to modellize the forecast of fixed wireless access site deployments and in particular sites that will do 4G technology and that can be used for fixed 4G with that we built a model in particular we had to evaluate the rollout forecast so we knew when the work will start in one area but we had to modellize the speed of this work with this model we could publish some figure about a forecast so it was expected that 2.2% of households will not have access to 8 MB per second except with satellites by the end of 2020 in reality the figure was 3% and this number is expected to drop to 0.5% by the end of 2023 so it might be a bit higher since the expectation versus reality we are a bit low in the figure we did the same work for the 30 MB per second access and we have this data at a very granular level so here is the aggregation at the national level but we can do any kind of aggregation since our model calculated some coverage at the address level so we for instance shared with departments this kind of data but at the department level on the case study number 3 uses this kind of data but at the address level so in terms of case study 3 we are asked again by the government about the pertinence of installing mobile sites to enhance fixed connectivity so there are 600 areas that are considered and we had to find a mean to evaluate the 600 areas so the one I'm showing you here now is on the south of the Lémon Lake so not far from Geneva and in this map you can see this is the expecting location of the site sometimes we had the location sometimes just the city center this is the round of 1 km or 2 km which is important because we used this round to calculate some figures, statistics and indicators and the dots are addresses on the map and the color are depending on their expected connectivity by the end of 2022 for instance white means it's expected that there will be a wired connectivity at this time that allows speed of more than 8 MB per second or red will not be except satellite connectivity that allows 8 MB per second so these maps we recreated at last 600 maps as well as indicators and it helped with some local knowledge of situation to prioritize the most interesting sites so in conclusion so I should use some maps some studies on here I remind you the resources you can find online so at ASAP it's important for us to share the maps but also some technical information about how we build the map it could be translated in English I guess with the online translator we have a map dedicated to mobile broadband it was not a subject today but it was interesting for you to check and we are always open for discussion so we contribute to some groups for instance a better group of guidelines of article 22 that was about broadband mapping and we also speak to regulators abroad to exchange about our experiences and we have also a twitter at ASAP I also tweet about the broadband mapping if you are interested interested thank you very much for your time Thank you very much for this intervention very interesting approach and very much detailed the analytics which you shown it's something what we love and all those who are playing the systems to extract the investment opportunities is something exciting to see happening and now let us move to our next speaker Misa Gnieszka Gwadesz director of department of strategy and analysis at the office of electronic communication in Poland and I invite you to deliver your presentation Gnieszka the floor is yours All the participants try to share my screen now do you see the presentation not yet is there some way we can help you can you follow these steps please Misa Ggadesz can you hear me I can hear you can you please open the presentation and then minimize it yes I did it then please open zoom application click on the green arrow that says share screen yes I did it and then you will have a window in the middle of the screen and then you will have option that says share your entire screen or below it you should be able to find your presentation in one of those windows can you see it do you see it now you have started sharing just a second please that's it just go on full screen mode and that's it thank you thanks a lot sorry for this technical issues at the beginning however usually I use the themes so I'm not so familiar with zoom but luckily we are fine with the presentation so today I want to share Gnieszka I'm very sorry for interrupting we can see your notes as well we would have the assistance to when you go in the presentation tab can you share it for me then just a second let me just check I believe I have your presentation just a second just a second I believe I don't have your presentation sorry you just in tab of your presentation when it says I will try it again okay please sorry just go in full screen mode please it's the same thing go to the view options not to you it's at the presentation and then presentation and then you need to uncheck the box that says use presenters view I'm not able to help you because I saw the menu but it's in Poland so I cannot understand where is precisely sorry where is that option it says in English it says slide show can I interrupt a little bit you can also click F5 button okay if you are okay with this option we are also okay to follow this is it okay now yeah let's go ahead okay sorry for this technical issue we don't visit Zoom let's don't prolong anymore and go to my presentation so I will share today Polish experience on broadband mapping we have already almost do it for 10 years and there could be different approaches actually to broadband mapping so it depends on your possibilities you can just focus on one approach but you can also use possible and adapt many elements of that perspective so you can choose between infrastructure mapping, service mapping demand mapping and investment mapping in Polish case we focus on infrastructure and service mapping and this information is reporting reported yearly by telecommunication operators by public utility companies and by local authorities and they are obliged to provide this information due to the legal circumstances majority of provided data is mandatory but the system also allows us to collect additional information mostly data which is connected to mobile services but Uke also can can ask or has legal law to request information at Hock so this information is not covered by the yearly report I think but we can ask on spot whenever we need some additional information and the platform which we use to collect all this information is the information system on broadband infrastructure it's ICT system which allows us to collect, to process present and share information on telecommunication infrastructure public telecommunication networks and buildings which enables colocation in order to obtain the best data because the quality of data is almost the most important topic when we talk about data collection but in order to obtain the best possible data there has to be very high level of coordination applied and in Poland the Broadband Act specifies in details which bodies obliged to collect data and in our case is the Polish regulator Uke which entities are obliged to report telecommunication data and what specific data has to be provided Uke coordinates the whole process managing the information system on broadband infrastructure and obtain data is processed to map telecommunication infrastructure and services which presents the situation in Poland the system also had to take into account various stakeholders what I mean data providers can supply different levels of data but on the other hand outcome data may be used for different purposes by different various users and this had to be considered when you design and plan data collection through widely applicable platform all the actions which we take here in Poland are in line with EU strategy and directive and it's applied locally to allow for infrastructure mapping and geographical representation of available services throughout the whole country this allows us for effective intervention and also for specific targeting of funds to improve existing infrastructure and also to minimize digital inequalities in the country there are five basic steps that allows to apply the best broadband mapping methodology and at the beginning may objectives have to be defined such as recognition of the existing infrastructure and classification of white spots then the authority which is in charge of the whole process has to be named as I mentioned at the beginning in Poland it's the Polish regulator UK data collection requirements have to be defined in case of Poland UK created the platform that defines what data and to what detail can be provided by the by the reporting entities and then a decision has to be made as to which of that data is mandatory to provide in Poland the broadband act specifies that in details and very last but not least confidentiality of data has to be considered as some of the sensitive data and publication cannot be fully disclosed to competition issues so however some levels of data aggregation may be considered some of the data is also published in our platform from our experience in broadband mapping we can identify seven minimal project requirements and this includes legal compliance which means that we should be in line with the national law or European law which is incorporated to the national legal framework be complete in regards of functionalities it means that the broadband mapping from at least from our experience proves that defining closed catalog of functionalities is never a finished process and it is strongly recommended to start with complete however minimal scope then reasonable cost of implementation and maintenance in the cost estimation process it should be taken into account the existing mapping in systems which already mapped the existing infrastructure and in particular using the data and tools provided by single information point may turn out to be a significant facilitation accessibility availability easy to use what is worth pointing out that by design the system implementation should not pose too many difficulties in regards of reporting and gaining information easy to use systems save great amount of money build confidence and also help to avoid mistakes and in fact fewer perturbations within their data collection then technology neutral approach we know it's important to have in mind that okay it's in innovation and efficiency in broadband mapping and I also want to mention that very important in the process of broadband mapping is to define at the beginning IT resources compliance with technical standards you have to also look what kind of registers are already present in your country and make use of them the process of broadband mapping it's worth mentioning that when you want to gather information from a big amount of entities it's good to have strict data formats and prepared validation in the system you can choose implementation models starting from in-house solution big solution and outsourced solution we have chosen outsourced solution however important part of however we were engaging the whole process and we have qualified team on our side which was able to define the requirements for the system and have very effective discussions with the outsourced company which implement the system project planning I think is the heart of the project life cycle and also tells everyone involved in the process what's your target and what you want to achieve at the end budget plan how to build estimate cost needed to complete a project of course with a specified period of time and the budget also should include label cost, material purchase cost and operating cost and important thing which I mentioned already is a team how to plan to have finally competitive team as we've chosen the external company which help us to implement the system however we also have a number of skilled staff on our side and the minimal group of experts that you have to think on your side should include project manager expert telco and at least one GIS expert and legal advisor and at the very end of my presentation I just want to invite you to visit our YouTube channel where we have many interesting materials last year we have produced a lot of webinar series concerning broadband mapping in Poland inventory of telecommunication infrastructure single information point also the process of identifying white spots and platform which represents attractiveness in the areas of white spots in Poland thank you that's all for my sign and thank you for your time your mic please please thank you very much for this I was saying such a nice thing but I will repeat so one more time thank you very much Agnieszka for all your presentation very much details with so much guidance and also for collaboration on the development of the of the mapping systems, which we hope to have be used in the future by many countries which are not that far with the establishment of the systems and updating them to make them state of art. But now let us move to our next speaker, Meliha Kovatshevich, head of licensing department at the communications regulatory authority of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Meliha, the floor is yours. Hello everyone, so please let me first share my presentation. Go to slideshow, and then from beginning, that's it, from beginning on the very far left. Yes. Yes. Thank you. That's it. Yes. Yes. So thank you for the invitation and for opportunity to speak thanks to ITU and our Montenegro hosts. I need to say that my pleasure would be even greater if we meet in person in Budva, but hopefully next year brings us back to life. So in my presentation, I would like to touch upon very positive ways of broadband mapping that could be some kind of wrap up of everything, what was said, then I would present briefly a current status of broadband mapping in Bosnia and Herzegovina and discuss some challenges and future activities. So we all agree that broadband mapping is seen as a cornerstone for any regulation. So in order to be able to adopt informed regulatory decisions, we as regulators need to have in depth knowledge of increasingly diverse network landscape with variety of different local, national and international stakeholders. So volume and quantity of data required is ever increasing and their sources are diversifying. Since the introduction of early measures, European Union continues to emphasize regulatory and technical aspects of broadband development, including broadband mapping. So we see that European electronic communication code and research articles directly underpin broadband mapping. So together with your guidelines of state aid for broadband and cost reduction directive, those articles create a regulatory framework of broadband mapping in European Union that is followed by accession countries and I would say other countries in Europe. So in Bosnia and Herzegovina, we do not have a specific regulation on broadband mapping. So various sets of data are available. Law and communications generally obliges operators to submit information on network and services to regulators request. So according to responsibilities of other authorities over network planning and installation, data and infrastructure are separately collected and recorded. So corresponding to our constitutional order in Bosnia and Herzegovina, we have two geoportals. Geoportals enable access to spatial data and in their work they are following inspire directive. So regarding infrastructure mapping, we have examples of digital maps of infrastructure established actually at local and municipal level. So as far as CRA, our agency activities on infrastructure mapping, we have established, for example, map of radio links that we have submitted to IT on interactive transmission map. So elements of service mapping are present in all reports and market analysis. What we do, we need to rely on data. For example, our service of ISP providers gives us numbers of subscribers per cities and regions. For example, within our market analysis documents, we presented geographical presence of networks of operators. So we have statistics on, let's say broadband connections via speed, via technology. Also we have collected some data on network development of the operators. We have records of network nodes and we are pleased to say that we have recently introduced powerful map tests that measures quality of broadband service and it gives us possibility to see the maps of conducted measures and results. But as we say, the data are collected and recorded, but we may say that elements of broadband mapping are scattered, but different applications of projects, the lack of cooperation with the stakeholders in the market, but it is poor correlation of data actually that exists. So our national broadband development strategies still need to be adopted that would define roles of different stakeholders. So we have recently applied for the technical assistance by the ITU. We are pleased that we shall be working with our colleagues from ACOS. We have launched a project under working title enabling environment for broadband mapping in Bosnia and Herzegovina. So we expect that this project would give us strong guidance on how to move further. We expect that countrywide assessment of existing data shall be done, some regulatory assessments, defining roles of responsible authorities, defining actual scope of broadband mapping services for structure investment mapping shall it be a single point or shall it be divided between different authorities. We expect to get a strong guidance on data format and proposals on technical solutions and use case of all those data in Bosnia and Herzegovina. So that would be all from me. Thank you very much, Menikha, for this overview of developments in the country. I think that we are getting better understanding. Also, thank you very much for the great collaboration in this field, within the framework of the ITU region initiative on the density infrastructure. So colleagues, this brings us to the end of the presentations, but not to the end of the session. We have still a few minutes to go and let's use this effectively. I encourage all stakeholders to put your questions in the chat room or in the Q&A. But in the meantime, let me ask the first question to our panelists. And I would like to ask what are the main challenges that you are facing currently in the strengthening the systems or establishing the new features. Will it be beneficial to have more international cooperation on this matter? How do you see those things? And let me start first, maybe with the speaker's order. So over to you. What should we start with, Antonin? So in terms of challenging, France is still facing. We have to industrialize the process of data collection on production, particularly about the quality control, since we have to do it over gigabytes of data. And also making more accessible our data and statistics to non-experts. Everything is in open data and we have some visualization, but we want to enrich what is published. So it's more subject of data visualization on software development rather than technical telecommunications subjects. In terms of international cooperation, I think broadband mapping is kind of a hot topic. Since it's very important. And I think there are many places where it's already a topic of discussion at the EU level, for instance. And I think it's good to continue these exchanges as well with ETU. Great, thank you very much for this. So let me move to Agnieszka. The same question. Yes, I think from our experience, the most important thing is quality data and collaboration with the whole telecommunications sector. In Poland, we have over 3,500 telco operators and going through the process of collection data with such a big amount of entities. It's a really challenging issue. And at the end, we need to have very high quality data, which we use in preparing and making very important decisions for the whole telco market. Thank you very much. Let me now move to Malihal. In case of Bosnia and Herzegovina, I would say that we are very much in need for strategic documents. We need a strategic document on developing broadband. So that would actually define roles of different responsible authorities as well as actually purpose of collection of data. So in Bosnia and Herzegovina, we do not have established any state aid mechanism, actually, that we'd support for the development of broadband mapping. So I think that it would really help us to have those strategies adopted at the national level. Thank you very much. And let us move to our other speaker from Albania. Fjeral, are you with us? Maybe technical difficulties because he's not with us at this moment, but we'll come back to him. Thank you very much. So I think we've heard quite interesting inputs, so open data, the quality of data, the cooperation with so many stakeholders and telco operators, management of the amount of the relationships at the ICT sector, but also putting the whole enabling environment. And this is something that we hope we'll be able also to address together with Bosnia very soon. And this is the last call to our colleagues for any questions from the public. But while waiting for those, I would like to move to our second question, maybe taking a look a bit in the future. So how do you see the role and use cases of broadband mapping expand over the next 10 to 10 years? Will it evolve? Will it diminish? Or will it remain in the center of the attention of all regulators, customers, policymakers, and others? And this time, let's start with Agnieszka, maybe. So let's move to Poland now. I believe that we don't collect data just to keep them in the databases. The main target to have this information, I think it's to use this information to make the telco market competitive. And from our point of view, we want to encourage operators to use this information for collaboration and for providing a better services for the Polish citizens. I think dark ducts and sharing the dark ducts, it's an important thing to provide better broadband services in Poland. Thank you very much for this. Let's move now to Bosnia. So the future of mapping. So I would just mention the role of ITU in all these activities. ITU serves us really as a point for exchange of interest of views and of good practices over the world. So for us, it was interesting to get experiences from EU countries as well as from non-European countries that have in practice maybe similar situation as we do. And certainly the importance of data is evident and it shall be certainly increasing. So really, as Agnieszka said, so the point at the end point is how do we use this data to support for the investment times to identify gaps in the market and to overcome problems. Thank you very much for this. And let's move to France to share these views. For France, data is also important. Like maybe one thing for France is now the FTCH relays are very fast, like 6 million premises per year are being covered. So one thing about our data is it might be not fresh enough for some use case to follow deployment. Like you see in the example I gave in one quarter, it's passed from zero to full deployed in one area. So to have new use case, sometimes we need to accelerate the data collection on its one of the problem. On things also, like in the next five, 10 years, we will not have very like in five years, let's say broadband coverage in terms of FTCH in France will be kind of completed or almost completed. So the map will be less interesting and it might be interesting to enhance the quality of service data. I mean, we have seen some example of a quality of service maps for fixed broadband today. And I think it's something that we can explore in France as well. OK, thank you very much for this. So we understand that there is a big future for the work focusing on the mapping systems. And a lot of efforts have to go. There are a lot of countries and we are just completing the study focusing on taking a look at the gaps at the global level where the mapping system exists, where still the work has to be done. And in fact, the data are quite surprising. There is a lot of work to be done. And I think that the European experience will be served as the one which can be used as the reference point. So that's therefore we are very grateful for your collaboration and supporting the efforts of the ITU in sharing these best practices and also supporting the countries in there and diverse. Dear ladies and gentlemen, this brings us to the end of this session. I would like to thank very much to all of the speakers for your interventions and your presentations. Your presentations will be published on the website. So please don't hesitate to check the website in order to still study and maybe ask and inquire kind of the questions to our distinguished speakers. But now thank you very much for being with us. And this brings us to the end of the session and we'll be moving with this now to the next and the last component of the ITU regional regulatory forum, ladies and gentlemen, which will be the closing. This is the time when we have to take a little bit of the stock of this, what we have done during the two last days during this forum jointly organized by the ITU and ACIP and yesterday we kicked off with an outstanding set of high level representatives from European NRAs and European Commission. I would like to thank national regulatory authorities for sharing their remarks, which enlightened us about the current developments and challenges and that they are facing every day on the ground as well as the wide range of priorities highlighted. There is a lot of progress in the region as well as a lot of work that still needs to be done in the coming years. I would like to also express particular thanks to the European Commission for providing a very comprehensive overview of the key policies and actions that are being implemented and will be implemented in the EU countries and beyond. This constitutes a reference point for many countries outside of the EU, particularly in the Western Balkans and South Eastern Europe. At the ITU, we witness and support the collaboration between EU and non-EU countries. Two recent examples are the twinning program between the national media and info communication authority of Hungary and electronic and postal communication authority of Albania as well as collaboration between agency for communication network and services of the Republic of Slovenia and CRC CRA and the communication regulatory authority of Bosnia Herzegovina. We hope this dialogue today has provided inspiration for further collaboration and also inspiration for those who would like to also offer their know-how knowledge and to the other countries. So please let us know in order to make sure that we can support each other and support also inter-regional and also inter-regional cooperation in this field. Today, we also heard from ITU. Yesterday, we heard also from the ITU, from my colleagues, Zulina Abdullah, who gave an inspiring presentation on how on the work of the ITU Telecommunication Development Bureau is doing on policy and regulation. I would invite you to go and browse this presentation on the event website along with the many other which will be uploaded shortly. In this regard, let me also comment my colleagues of Imadens and all speakers from session one who are really contributed for advancing the discussion on policy and regulatory incentives for affordable and robust connectivity, outlining best practice national experiences aimed at providing all citizens with high-speed connectivity, particularly in fixed broadband markets. And last but not least, from yesterday, I would like to remark the insightful intervention of Croatia focusing on the challenge of digital accessibility, which we keep close to our heart at the ITU. I invite all stakeholders to check our website for announcement regarding Accessible Europe, our flagship event and our flagship initiative currently done with the European Commission but being the unique multi-stakeholder platform for advancing accessibility, accessibility, digital accessibility in our region. And with the deadlines coming from the Accessibility European Accessibility Act, this topic becomes really, really of the, this what we should focus on. Today, we also heard a great discussion about the 5G implementation in session two and evidence-based regulation in session three. Thanks to all speakers for their excellent presentation and remarks. Let me highlight and the two pieces of work of the ITU Office for Europe will be delivering soon on these topics addressed today. And these are ITU report on the 5G implementation in non-EU countries, which builds upon research conducted between the end of 2020 and beginning of 2021. This is an amazing knowledge base which complements the work done at the EU level on the 5G observatory. The ITU guidelines on establishing broadband mapping system is the other deliverable which drove consistently on the European experiences and will be due by Q4 this year. And I'd like to thank very much of the public and other countries for joining the forces in order to make this happen. I invite you to stay tuned and to check our channels to know more about these publications. These two days have shown us the great work that public authorities are doing to address these challenges, what strategies and policies they can deploy, what regulatory incentives, what tools and methods they can use to ensure the broadband reaches all and everywhere. This will provide fresh insight into how to fill and the remaining gaps, reducing the many divides on the daily basis to achieve sustained development. Though through capacity building, knowledge development, technical assistance, exchange of the best practices, ad hoc projects. ITU is committed to continuous engagement with countries and stakeholders in the region and engagement will look forward to expand in the coming years to advance the implementation of the ITU regional initiatives for Europe as well as beyond. In particular, those who would like to engage in the inter-regional activities. I would like to thank the European Commission, BEREC, IPREC, CBT, RCC of Western Balkans and all stakeholders who are continuously supporting the implementation of ITU regional initiatives. Let me also thank once again all speakers and moderators that have been with us these two days and sharing their expertise. And thanks to you, dear participants, for joining us on these two days. I sincerely hope that you are enriched by these discussions also sincere thanks to my team, to Julian, to Jerry, and also the others who behind this scene have been with us elaborating and preparing and coaching and making sure that we have great experience during these two days. So thank you very much for this. And dear ladies and gentlemen, before I conclude, let me thank our partners in this conference, agency for electronic communications and postal services of Montenegro with whom we have been collaborating for many, many years and beyond thanking Mr. Kovjanić and Mr. Grubiović for their high level messages yesterday. I would like to thank also, in particular, Mr. Boris Yevrich and Pavle Miuskovic for their tireless work on this organization of this conference over the past months. This year, I keep turns 20 years old and exciting milestone for the organization and the country I would like to call for the virtual round of applause for this extensive work done by the ACIP for Montenegro. While thanking you once again, I now hand over to our friends, Darko, for closing remarks and bringing the event to the close. So Darko, I'm handing over now to you, saying thank you and thank you from ITU. Thank you, Jaroslav. Dear colleagues and colleagues, successfully led by great moderators, we have reached the end of the regulatory conference. As the previous year, the announcement of the development and availability of wide-angle infrastructure is now a universal connection for post-pandemic in digital Europe. As we could hear from our different panelists, the wide-angle infrastructure is developing and becoming accessible to all countries quickly. The number of switchbacks with optically attractive and all major mobile services of the 5th generation have begun to improve in large numbers of countries, while other countries have been preparing or preparing conditions for their introduction. The goal is for all of us to, through the construction, development and access to the wide-angle infrastructure in the units of the industry, local communities and the world in general, to create conditions for further progress and social development. From day to day, we are meeting with a large number of connected people and the authorities on the global network. We are meeting with new requests for faster and more widely accessible access in terms of safe communication, less interference, new access to the frequency with which resources. In order to successfully satisfy all these requests, we need a close and intensive cooperation between the creator of policy and the development of the regulatory, operator and industry. At the national level, the authorities and the regulators must and can help through understanding of national strategies and creating a preventive regulatory environment that will urgently act as an expected and a major investment in implementation in the 5G network, but also further development of fixed and wide-angle networks. The decisions that the authorities and the regulators are now making will have a long-term impact on further development. In order to achieve greater success and the development is faster and more intensive, it is necessary that we all work on a regional level and on a global level through cooperation and will participate in the work of a number of groups that work in the area of international telecommunications and other institutions. I believe that this annual regulatory conference that is together with the ITU and the team represents one of the models of successful cooperation. In addition, the practice shows that we have also believed these two days that there will be no exception in terms of implementation to the present wide-angle technologies and that it is now continuing to lead the fifth generation of mobile communication networks. Although they are both global measures, each country's strategy is developing a response to the national level and goals that it wants to achieve taking into account the specific characteristics of the local market. We have a very high level of investment in the sector of electronic communications for the last few years. As what colleague Pavle said yesterday, the previous five years of investment in the process was at a level of 40% of the total income of the sector. It was very high and it was shown on the field. The number of listed connections with optical shadows in the total number of active, wide-angle connections at a level of 41%. The number of connections with speeds of more than 100 megabits in a second at a total number of wide-angle connections at a level of 37%. How much is this great progress in the previous five years of investment in the sector and in the future in the previous five years? The best picture of the data is that in Montenegro such types of connections at the age of 17 were below one percent. For the previous five years the average speed of the internet access is almost eight times. With the full right, I can say that we have made a great progress in Montenegro. But taking into account the activities of the users who have left us to ensure a wide-angle access and for some of the remaining percentage of sustainability which is the most difficult and the most complex and by chance the experience of other countries I see that we are still waiting for a lot of work. In turn, we will use some solutions that you presented during these two days we will leave it to ourselves to some of the new questions and challenges for which we are inspired by your achievements. I am sure that this is the case with you. Through these conferences and services, through the exchange of experiences with international institutions and other regulators we offer new solutions and bring greater success in the work of all of us. This year, together with us, you organize and support this conference. We believe and we hope that you will continue to support it with the successful organization of the conference in the next few years. I thank you that you have recognized this conference in such great conditions which has already been recognized as the leading group of regulators in the field of electronic communication of Central and Eastern Europe. With your participation and presentations of experiences and discussions the quality of the conference will be again at a high level. In the name of the Gensien for Electronic Communication and the Poštansk share of Montenegro and in its personal name I thank Mr. Jaroslav Ponder and his associates from the International Telecommunications Union on the co-organization of the conference and the support they provide us. I thank all the participants moderators and panelists who have shared with us their experiences solutions and problems with which they meet. I thank the Congress for their exceptional technical support and at the end but very important for the members of the team who have been working on all aspects of the organization of this conference. The year after the day-to-day work I have called you to join us on the conference with Aliv Boke Kotorski. To recognize their reasons this year they can not do this year there is no meeting our viewers will not enjoy the beauty of the sea and high mountains we will continue to taste the delicious food and various national dishes. We can imagine how it looked last year and wish it to happen in the future. I wish to see you in the future in Montenegro and I wish you a happy health. I wish you and your best I wish you all the best I wish you all the best I wish you all the best I wish you all the best I wish you all the best Thank you very much Darko for this and I am still handing over to you to declare the event closed. Thank you very much for the words and over to you and for the conferencing. Thank you very much and greetings to all colleagues. Thank you. Thank you very much everyone Have a good day. Have a nice day.