Transcript СИСТЕМА ТЕЛЕКОММУНИКАЦИИ В ГРУЗИИ

Telecommunications
Development in Georgia
 Experts
predict the breakthrough
in the Telecommunication sector
in the next two year based on the
NEXT GENERATION
NETWORK
 Therefore,
it is of great importance
to study the readiness of the
telecommunications sector of the
country for this development
The overall growth of the sector
The income of

US$40 million in 1996.
US$180 million in 2001
 More than US$200 million in 2002

Density of Communications
Density (number per 100 inhabitants), %
Telephone
 Mobile phone
 Internet-linked computers
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12
6,5
0.6
Local telephone
communications (PSTN)
 Georgian
Elkavshiri
600 thou users
(state-owned)
 Akhali Kselebi
100 thou users
(private)
 Tbilisi has a capacity of 26 telephones/100
inhabitants
Local telephone
communications (PSTN)

The present situation has been achieved as a
result of the installation of electronic
exchange stations (70% of total capacity)
carried out by Turkish, Israeli, Korean and
other foreign companies.
International and trunk
telephone communications

800 digital satellite lines connect Georgian
operators to the networks of companies:

Sprint,

AT & T

MCI
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SCOTTCO

Deutsche Telecom
International and trunk telephone
communications
Fiber-optic lines
Total length of them is 446 km (10% of all
trunk lines)
 This is mainly Georgian segment of
TransAsia-Europe fiber-optic line
under construction:
 Poti-Rize (Turkey) and Poti-Varna
(Bulgaria);
 the line passing along ArmeniaAzerbaijan-Georgia Railways
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Mobile (cellular) telephony
Fig. 9.3. Cellular communications growth (number of subscribers, thou)
Mobile (cellular) telephony
The largest companies
MAGTI
210 thou users
 Geocell
80 thou users
 Megacom
5 thou users
Two operators use GSM 900/1800 technology
and one uses AMPS 800
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The Internet
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11 commercial providers

4 non-commercial providers
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The number of users is estimated at
approximately 40 thou.

number of Internet-linked computers
amounts to 12 thou
The Internet
Fig. 9.5. Number of Internet-linked computers
The Internet
Sanet Network Asymmetric Digital
Subscriber Line (ADSL) service
via ordinary (copper) telephone lines
speed of downloads from Internet
up to 8Mbps;
speed of uploads - up to 768Kbps
The Internet
Sanet Network ADSL service
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(Monthly Fee includes 500 Mb of received
information by an User and one
free POP3 type e-mail account)
$55.00/month
Each additional Megabyte of
(received) information
$ 0.07/Mb
ADSL Modem/Router
$ 110
Regulatory environment
State policy in the telecommunications
sector is being elaborated and pursued by:
 Ministry of Transport and Communications
 Regulatory Commission
 Coordinating Council for the Development
of Information and Communication
Technologies
 State Department of Informatization
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Regulatory environment
Georgian Laws concerning
Telecommunications sector

The Law on Communications and Post, dated 23
June, 1999;

The Law on the Press and other Mass Information
Media, dated 10 August 1991;

Georgian Law No. 686, dated 13 December 2000,
"concerning amendments and supplements to
certain legal acts of Georgia” (including licensing
in the field of communication).