New political order in Ukraine will influence telecom market. In detail, major operators of cellular networks may face changes. In this post, we will cite some thoughts on this matter from Roman Khimich, one of the leading experts in Ukrainian telecommunications.
First, reorganization of system of state regulation of the market is possible. Russian model may serve as an example, where all the regulatory functions are concentrated in one administration for communications. Now local telecom market is regulated by several government institutions, from which national commission for regulating communications (NCRC) and Antimonopoly committee are the most important ones.
Astelit (Life trademark) operator possibly can gain a lot from recent political changes. However, the experience of previous years show that System Capital Management (SCM), who is a stakeholder of Astelit, hasn’t show propensity to influence systematically the government policy in telecom sector. SCM has enough lobbysts but the level of ideas that they offer, to experts’ opinion, doesn’t correspond the role of the corporation that it plays on Ukrainian telecom arena. At least, at present time.
For Antimonopoly committee, hard times has come. It is easy to take some decision that is not favorable for ruling political group. Therefore, we will repeat it again, NCRC will play the prominent role in sector’s regulation.
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