New Technologies and services - Cable Television WORLD: AFRICA provide service Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi applications. Cameroon The relevant licence must be obtained. Cape Verde Central African Rep. Chad Congo Congo (Dem. Rep.) Côte d'ivoire Equatorial Guinea Unrestricted Eritrea Ethiopia Only the main operator is permitted to provide such service. Gabon Gambia ne = 999 data, = pre-999 data, - new question in 000
provide service WORLD: AFRICA Ghana Only Licensed operators allowed. Guinea Guinea-Bissau Kenya Lesotho Liberia Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritius Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda S. Tomé & Principe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Despite the fact that there is no statement/law on this we don't think that government will restrict telecomms operators from providing such service. = 999 data, = pre-999 data, - new question in 000
provide service WORLD: AFRICA South Africa Swaziland Tanzania Togo Uganda ne Zambia Zimbabwe = 999 data, = pre-999 data, - new question in 000
WORLD: AMERICAS provide service Antigua & Barbuda Argentina Bahamas Barbados Belize Bolivia, but another licence is required. Brazil In special cases mentioned in Law 8.977/97. Canada thing beyond restrictions currently in place for telecom companies. Telecom company ownership rules apply. Chile Anti-trust law Licensed intermediate service operators can operate the network. Colombia Must participate in an objective selection process to obtain the licence. Costa Rica In reality there are no restrictions, since ICE has the power to supply all telecommunication services; nevertheless, it must be indicated that the Government's interest is that ICE should develop telephony, not television. Cuba Dominica Dominican Rep. ne ne Ecuador = 999 data, = pre-999 data, - new question in 000
WORLD: AMERICAS provide service El Salvador ne ne Grenada Guatemala Despite the service being permitted, no-one is providing it. Some companies provide it at experimental level. Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico To provide a service, a public television network concession is required, and the legal, technical and financial capacity to provide the service must be demonstrated. The relevant legislation provides for the provision of additional services wherever a company holds a concession for the public telecommunication network. Telephony is considered as an additional service to be provided through cable television networks. Nicaragua restrictions (free competition). Panama Paraguay Covered in the regulatory provisions for non-basic services. Peru Concession must be requested. Concession must be requested. St. Lucia They are restricted to only Cable TV. St. Vincent = 999 data, = pre-999 data, - new question in 000
WORLD: AMERICAS provide service Suriname Trinidad & Tobago United States Uruguay Venezuela Television system concessionholders may not, under any circumstances, change their licence to operate another one, nor may they opt for another concession for the same or a different system. = 999 data, = pre-999 data, - new question in 000
WORLD: ASIA PACIFIC provide service Afghanistan Australia Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Darussalam Cambodia China D.P.R. Korea Fiji India Indonesia Iran (I.R.) Israel Japan Telcommunication companies which intend to provide Cable TV shall obtain permission for Cable TV operator from the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. Cable companies which intend to provide telephone services shall obtain permission for type I carrier from the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications. Kiribati Korea (Rep.) They should obtain a license for cable TV service. They should obtain a license for telephony. Lao P.D.R. Malaysia Maldives = 999 data, = pre-999 data, - new question in 000
WORLD: ASIA PACIFIC provide service Marshall Islands Micronesia Mongolia ne Myanmar Nauru Nepal New Zealand Pakistan pornographic material. Papua New Guinea Philippines Singapore Solomon Islands Sri Lanka Thailand Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu Viet Nam Western Samoa = 999 data, = pre-999 data, - new question in 000
WORLD: ARAB STATES provide service Algeria Bahrain Comoros Djibouti Egypt Iraq Jordan Kuwait Lebanon Libya Mauritania Morocco Oman Qatar QATAR TELECOM Q.S.C (Q- TEL) (Monopoly). Saudi Arabia Somalia Sudan Syria Tunisia United Arab Emirates = 999 data, = pre-999 data, - new question in 000
WORLD: ARAB STATES provide service Yemen = 999 data, = pre-999 data, - new question in 000
WORLD: EUROPE & CIS provide service Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium License of the regional authorities. Obtain a license for public network and/or voice telephony. Bosnia Bulgaria Croatia A concession is needed. Cyprus Czech Republic Terms and conditions have been stated in the General Licenses GP - 4/996 and GP - 6/996. Denmark Estonia The owner of a network shall not be a company which accounts for more than 40% of the turnover in the market of telephone services in Estonia; the owner of a network shall have no economic interest in such company. Domestic and international londistance telephone call as of 0 Jan 00. Finland restrictions France = 999 data, = pre-999 data, - new question in 000
WORLD: EUROPE & CIS provide service Georgia Germany Greece Hungary According to the amendment of the Act on Telecommunications: - telecommunications organisation or enterprise in which a telecommunications organisation directly or indirectly has significant influence, cannot establish, lease or obtain in any other way right of disposal over wired (cable) network suitable for program distribution, parallel with its own public telephone network or with public telephone network of any of enterprises defined above, except settlements with number of inhabitants under thirty thousand. - A telecommunications organisation performing program distribution as well as those performing public cable program distribution or enterprises in which they have significant influence directly or indirectly, may provide program distribution service or acquire service licence pursuant to the Act on Telecommunications, only in that case if they certified at the competent authority that the reception area of their cable distribution enterprise does not exceed even jointly the limit related to the reception area of the service stipulated in the Act I. of 996 on radio and television broadcasting Iceland Ireland Italy The incumbent cannot directly produce contents. Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan If license received. = 999 data, = pre-999 data, - new question in 000
WORLD: EUROPE & CIS provide service Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg They have to separate the operational entities for telecommunication and Cable TV. They have to have a telecommunication license. Malta Moldova Monaco Netherlands rway So far no restrictions. Poland Portugal Voice telephony licence required. Romania Russia San Marino Slovak Republic Slovenia Spain The dominant operator is subject to a two-year moratorium on entering cable telecommunications. Sweden = 999 data, = pre-999 data, - new question in 000
WORLD: EUROPE & CIS provide service Switzerland Provided they comply with the Radio and Television Act. Provided they comply with the Telecommunications Act. Tajikistan TFYR Macedonia Only the incumbent operator has the right to provide cable TV according to the Law. Turkey restriction. Turkmenistan Ukraine United Kingdom BT is not allowed to own or operate cable TV services under the terms of the DG Competition, EU Commission s decision of 5/9/99 relating to a procedure under Art. 8 EC Treaty (case IV/36.539 British Interactive Broadcasting/open) (999/78/EC). Uzbekistan Vatican Yugoslavia = 999 data, = pre-999 data, - new question in 000