With the objective to support the development of Central & Eastern European countries, the European Commission sponsored an in-depth study carried out by InfoCom.

The main objective of the project was to understand the situation of these markets in order to provide recommendations to develop the operational and practical dimension of the European Commission with these countries.

Topics analysed in this project included:

  • Telecommunications in PHARE & TACIS countries
    • Telecommunications situation
    • Technical network upgrade
  • Market organisation
    • Transition towards a free market economy
    • Institutional situation
  • Strategic analysis
    • Regional approach and policy
    • Competition analysis
    • Foreign competition
  • Recommendations
PHARE countries: Albania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia.

TACIS countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.