Strategic Agenda 2009 - PTS-ER-2008-19
30/09/2008
In the strategic agenda, PTS makes a collective, overall evaluation of the big challenges facing the postal and electronic communications sectors.
PTS will prioritise six areas in 2009. This is a limited number of areas in which there is a clear need for increased efforts by the authority and in which the increased efforts are expected to have major positive effects.
Liberalisation of spectrum management
This area covers lowered entry barriers and measures to facilitate technology and market development by formulating conditions for using and liberalising frequencies. One important goal for 2009 is for market players to have access to more spectrum than last year, on terms that are technology and service neutral.
Greater access to IT infrastructure
This area covers access to broadband as well as fixed and mobile telephony. An important goal for 2009 is for PTS’s financing solution for access to telephony and functional Internet access to be accepted by the Swedish Government and Parliament.
Equal treatment for access to TeliaSonera’s access network
This area involves using existing tools to make TeliaSonera treat all market players that use the company’s access network in the same way as it treats its own end-user organisation. One important goal for 2009 is for TeliaSonera not to have competitive advantages, to the extent it does today, in the end-user market due to a lack of equal treatment at wholesale level.
Work towards a long-term vision for interconnection
This area includes PTS supporting the introduction of new business models when the Internet and traditional telecommunications become one. An important goal for 2009 is smaller differences in interconnection prices between fixed and mobile networks.
Promote security in all IP networks
This area covers supervisory measures and measures for increased cooperation between market players with regard to IP-based networks and services. An important goal for 2009 is that the crisis management function between operators including Internet service providers shall be developed.
Greater financial supervision of the postal sector
This area covers more complex financial supervision of the postal sector, due to the merger between the Swedish and Danish postal services. An important goal for 2009 is for Posten’s (the Swedish postal service) pricing to comply with the regulatory framework.