implementation of the laws protecting citizen’s rights and privacy, as well as the insufficient independence of the regulator and the courts with regard to the state-owned
Moldtelecom, there are few checks and balances in place to prevent authorities from
taking a more aggressive stance on policing Internet content or from hindering new
entrants on the market.
Notes
1. United Nations, United Nations e-Government Survey 2008, http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/
groups/public/documents/un/unpan028607.pdf.
2. Miniwatts Marketing Group, ‘‘Internet World Statistics: Moldova,’’ 2009, http://www
.internetworldstats.com/europa2.htm#md.
3. Of those, about 63,000 were dial-up subscribers and 47,200 were broadband Internet users. The
number of dial-up users increased by only 3.4 percent in 2007, with a 23 percent rise outside the
capital and a 9 percent decrease in Chisinau resulting from competition from broadband service
providers. At the same time, broadband access grew from 36,000 to about 47,200 (80 percent,
ADSL access; 15.9 percent, FTTH/LAN; and 6 percent, cable TV Internet).
4. National Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and Information Technology,
Report on Activity and Developments of the Electronic Communications Market in 2007, 2008, http://
www.anrti.md/en/Rapoarte/2007%20RAPORT%20ANUAL.pdf.
5. Moldtelecom has cut cross-subsidies on its services in an effort to rebalance its tariffs.
6. Moldtelecom National Operator, ‘‘MaxDSL,’’ http://www.moldtelecom.md/ru/persons/internet/
maxdsl/.
7. Ministry of Information Development, ‘‘Computer Utilization,’’ 2007, http://www.mdi.gov
.md/stat10_en/stat10_3_en/.
8. Center of Sociological, Politological and Psychological Analysis and Investigations (CIVIS),
Role of the Internet in Internet Users’ Lives, 2005, http://www.mdi.gov.md/img/pdf/3_ICT_en.pdf.
9. IHS Global Insight, ‘‘Annual Fixed-Line Growth in Moldova Drops to 3 Percent on Continued
Mobile Growth,’’ March 12, 2009, http://www.globalinsight.com/.
10. Ibid.
11. At the end of 2008, the French GSM company acquired the Moldovan mobile and Internet
service provider Telemedia. Telemedia Group has its own fiber-optic network, developed radio network, main radio-relay TV channel, and information center for network control and monitoring.
12. National Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and Information Technology,
Report on Activity and Developments of the Electronic Communications Market in 2007; Ancerti, Report
on Activity and Developments of the Electronic Communications Market in 2008, 2008, http://en
.anrceti.md/files/filefield/RAPORT_anual_2008_engl_fin_publ.pdf.
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Moldtelecom, there are few checks and balances in place to prevent authorities from
taking a more aggressive stance on policing Internet content or from hindering new
entrants on the market.
Notes
1. United Nations, United Nations e-Government Survey 2008, http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/
groups/public/documents/un/unpan028607.pdf.
2. Miniwatts Marketing Group, ‘‘Internet World Statistics: Moldova,’’ 2009, http://www
.internetworldstats.com/europa2.htm#md.
3. Of those, about 63,000 were dial-up subscribers and 47,200 were broadband Internet users. The
number of dial-up users increased by only 3.4 percent in 2007, with a 23 percent rise outside the
capital and a 9 percent decrease in Chisinau resulting from competition from broadband service
providers. At the same time, broadband access grew from 36,000 to about 47,200 (80 percent,
ADSL access; 15.9 percent, FTTH/LAN; and 6 percent, cable TV Internet).
4. National Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and Information Technology,
Report on Activity and Developments of the Electronic Communications Market in 2007, 2008, http://
www.anrti.md/en/Rapoarte/2007%20RAPORT%20ANUAL.pdf.
5. Moldtelecom has cut cross-subsidies on its services in an effort to rebalance its tariffs.
6. Moldtelecom National Operator, ‘‘MaxDSL,’’ http://www.moldtelecom.md/ru/persons/internet/
maxdsl/.
7. Ministry of Information Development, ‘‘Computer Utilization,’’ 2007, http://www.mdi.gov
.md/stat10_en/stat10_3_en/.
8. Center of Sociological, Politological and Psychological Analysis and Investigations (CIVIS),
Role of the Internet in Internet Users’ Lives, 2005, http://www.mdi.gov.md/img/pdf/3_ICT_en.pdf.
9. IHS Global Insight, ‘‘Annual Fixed-Line Growth in Moldova Drops to 3 Percent on Continued
Mobile Growth,’’ March 12, 2009, http://www.globalinsight.com/.
10. Ibid.
11. At the end of 2008, the French GSM company acquired the Moldovan mobile and Internet
service provider Telemedia. Telemedia Group has its own fiber-optic network, developed radio network, main radio-relay TV channel, and information center for network control and monitoring.
12. National Regulatory Agency for Electronic Communications and Information Technology,
Report on Activity and Developments of the Electronic Communications Market in 2007; Ancerti, Report
on Activity and Developments of the Electronic Communications Market in 2008, 2008, http://en
.anrceti.md/files/filefield/RAPORT_anual_2008_engl_fin_publ.pdf.
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