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On 4 July 2005 the Parliament of Hungary adopted Act XC. of 2005 on Freedom of Electronic Information. This Act aims at promoting the right of the citizens to have access to information of public interest held by public authorities. For this purpose the Act obliges public institutions to publish continuously on the Internet a significant body of information related to their work in a way that allows citizens to access these data without any identification and free of charge. The kind of information to be published online is defined in detail by the appendix to the Act. The websites of public institutions...

On 10 March 2005 a decision of the Government on the introduction of digital terrestrial television in Hungary was published in the official journal. The decision, which was made after nearly one year of preparation, defines the tasks of the ministries concerned - primarily of the Ministry of Informatics and Telecommunications. The ministries have to prepare the necessary amendments of the acts concerned in order to eliminate the legal obstacles for launching digital terrestrial television services. A committee for the coordination of the process of digitisation and for assessing its social impact...

On 10 February 2005 the Constitutional Court issued a decision concerning the power of the Országos Rádió és Televízió Testület (National Radio and Television Commission, the independent Hungarian regulatory authority for the media) to deliver official general interpretations of the law. The request for the decision of the forum was submitted by a judge of the Fővárosi Bíróság (Metropolitan Court) a few years ago in a case of an appeal against decision no. 1331/2002. (IX.12.) of the ORTT. The background of the case can be summarised as follows: Act I of 1996 on radio and television broadcasting...

On 7 December 2004 the National Communications Authority (“Authority") closed the procedure for three of the four frequency blocks (Blocks A - D) offered at the UMTS (3G) mobile telephone service tender invited on 31 August 2004 (See IRIS 2005-1: 16). According to the Authority's decision, the best bid for Block A was made by T-Mobile Hungary Ltd. and for Block C by Pannon GSM Telecommunications Ltd.. T-Mobile Hungary Ltd. shall pay HUF 17 billion (EUR 1 is HUF 250) net for the 15-year frequency usage license. Pannon GSM Telecommunications Ltd. shall pay HUF 19 billion, and in addition, the latter...

Five service providers submitted their applications by the deadline of 2 November 2004 in accordance with the tender procedure initiated by the Nemzeti Hírközlési Hatóság (National Communications Authority, NHH) for the license of radio frequency bands that can be used for the provision of third generation mobile communication services (UMTS) (see IRIS 2004-9: 11). The UMTS technology improves the quality of traditional mobile telephone calls, provides higher data speed, and thus also makes available internet-based multimedia services. Each of the three current Hungarian GSM service providers ­...