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Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority (FICORA)
Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority (FICORA)
Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority (FICORA) – safeguards communications development
FICORA ensures that everyone has access to versatile, effective and secure communications in Finland.
The authority's activities contribute to a reliable information society and secure the status and rights of users of communications services by ensuring that society, business and citizens have access to
- fast and reliable telecommunications connections;
- effective communications markets;
- efficiently-used radio frequencies, numbers and codes;
- reasonably-priced communications services of good quality;
- versatile electronic media services; and
- objective information on the development, pricing and service level of communications markets and services.
The authority maintains an overview of the functionality of electronic communications networks and information security, and reports of eventual information security threats. Also, the objective is to increase the awareness of information security in homes and companies for example by means of guidance and consumer events, such as the Safer Internet Day. As network technologies progress, FICORA aims at ensuring that communications networks and services are compatible.
The centralized administration of radio frequencies ensures that frequencies are used in as effective and disturbance-free manner as possible. This responsibility is significant both at national and international level. Also, the authority enhances the provision of versatile electronic media services.
FICORA
- collects television and license fees;
- grants short-term licenses;
- monitors the content and advertising of TV and radio programmes; and
- monitors the effectiveness and service level of the universal postal services and handles undeliverable postal items.
FICORA's strategy
FICORA's strategy 2020 [PDF, 106 KB]Presentation video of FICORA
Watch the presentation video of FICORA by using Windows Media Player:
presentation video [WMV, 19 MB]
or QuickTime Player:
presentation video [MOV, 57 MB]
