In its strategic agenda, PTS makes a comprehensive, overall assessment of major challenges facing the areas of postal services and electronic communications.
PTS will prioritise six areas in 2009. These are areas where there is a clear need to increase initiatives on the part of the Agency and where these initiatives are expected to have a very positive impact.
"The aim of the strategic agenda is to make our strategic focus clear to everyone," says Marianne Treschow, Director-General of PTS. "An ongoing dialogue with market stakeholders will enable us to make good assessments of international trends and the challenges that we face."
One of PTS's objectives in the area of interconnection is to reduce the differences in termination rates between fixed and mobile networks in 2009. Today, fixed network operators pay significantly more to mobile operators than the other way round, while we face large investments in fixed networks.
PTS must, among other things, facilitate the introduction of new business models as the Internet and the traditional telecommunications market converge. Work on a long-term goal profile for interconnection has already started and will continue for a number of years.
PTS will publish a strategic agenda each year.
Facts:
The areas that PTS will prioritise in 2009 are:
- Liberalisation of spectrum management
- Greater access to IT infrastructure
- Equal treatment for access to TeliaSonera’s access network
- Work towards a long-term vision for interconnection
- Promote security in all IP networks
- Greater financial supervision of the postal sector
For more information, please contact Director-General Marianne Treschow, through PTS's Press Office +46 8 678 55 55.
Read a summary of the strategic agenda
The Swedish Post and Telecom Agency (PTS) monitors the electronic communications and postal sectors in Sweden. The term ‘electronic communications’ includes telephony, the Internet and radio. The Agency works with consumer and competition issues, efficient utilisation of resources and secure communications. Read more at www.pts.se.