It is anticipated that enterprises that hold the relevant authorisations to perform activities connected with the construction and/or operation of public electronic communications networks and which operate or want to begin operating in the area in question will primarily participate in the public consultations. The public consultation will, inter alia, also be available to the local government of the municipalities in question, however it is important to emphasise that these consultations are by their nature open to anybody. It is understood that the results of the public consultation may change the maps that were the subject of that public consultation. Within the framework of the overall preparation of this document, there is also public consultation to fix whole maps of the Czech Republic that will then be the subject of smaller public consultations relating to the individual areas of intervention. These smaller consultations will be announced for the area in which the subsidy competition will take place. The area of intervention will be created according to the rules for the creation of areas of intervention, and enterprises will have the possibility to comment in more detail on the individual facts both at the present time and also for the three-year outlook. The mapping of areas of intervention will take place in cycles, while the first round of calls will be focused only on white areas. 4.2 The development of NGNs in the Czech Republic and abroad If we look at the market share in terms of the number of accesses by individual technological solutions, the situation on the retail market for high-speed Internet access changed only minimally in 201533; with only a slight growth in market share for access through optical networks from 11% in 2014 to 12% for 2015. Wireless networks in free bands (labelled as “WiFi” in the graph below) and xDSL access remained the most widespread technological solutions for access to the Internet, with market shares of 26.8% and 24.1% of all networks. Graph No 2 below provides the shares of the individual technologies within the framework of fixed electronic communications networks. 33 See the Annual Report of the Czech Telecommunication Office for 2015, and the EC’s Digital Economy & Society Index 23

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