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Communication Technological Units at
the line ministry and subordinate institutions”;
DCM No. 778, dated 7.11.2012, “On the
Approval of General, Minimal Standards
of the ICTU Personnel for the Structural
Organization of ICT”;
DCM No. 710, dated 21.8.2013, “On
the Estabishment and Functioning of
Systems for the Safeguarding of Information, Continuity of Work and Service
Level Agreements”;
DCM No. 734, dated 28.8.2013, “On the
Establishment of the Unique System of
Registration, Authentication and Identification of Users in Retriving Public
Services from Electronic Systems”.
Directive No. 1, dated 31.12.2012, “On
the verification of the copy letter of the
electronic document in public institutions”;
Directive No. 2, dated 2.9.2013, “On
Standartization of Drafting the TORs for
the ICT projects in public administration”.
Currently, there is a rich legal framework
that directly and indirectly regulates ICT
and information society. However, the
ammendment and improvement of ICT,
e-governance and information society legislation is necessary in order to respond to
the dynamic development of this field and
the establishment of a single digital market
integrated with that of the EU and beyond;
Development of ICT
infrastructure
and the Internet
With the liberalization of the telecommunications market and after the privatization
of the state owned companies, the development of ICT infrastructure was seen as
closely related to private investments and
stimulation of policies for private investments. The adoption of Law No. 9918, dated 19.05.2008, “On the Electronic Communications in the Republic of Albania”, marked
an important step toward the full liberalization of telecommunications market. The law
specifically eliminated the entry barriers in
the market for the entrepreneurs, as well as
it facilitated:
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the right of each entrepreneur to deliver electronic communication networks
and services, on the basis of a general
authorization as well as individual ones
in the case of utilization of limited resources (frequences and numbers);
a suitable regulatory environment,
which respects the principle of technological impartiality;
transferral of rights to utilize the limited
resources through transparent, non-discriminatory and proportional procedures.
Competition in the electronic communications market has increased and in 2014
there were four mobile telephony operators
in the electronic communications market,
79 alternative fixed telephony operators and
131 providers of internet services, ISP. Three
operators of the mobile telephony provided
broadband mobile services based on the 3G
technology.
In the first half of 2014, published data by
AEPC related to the market indicated the
following figures: 3,473,361 active users of
mobile telephony; 1,058,354 users of broadband internet from the mobile phones,
while the number of fixed telephony customers decreased by reaching 255,358 from
281200 at the end of 2013. The number of
fixed broadband services was 188,668.
The scale uf utilization of electronic communications, such as the mobile telephony, internet, etc has increased annually. Different observations indicate that utilization
of the smart, tablets and other equipment
has increased. Utilization of the social networks in the country is wider. There is also
an increasing trend in relation to the traffic
of data communications and a decrease of
the telephone traffic (voice). This is a global
tendency which is also reflected in our country.
Internet penetration according to the pub13