Information Communication and Technology Sector in The Republic of Macedonia

Information Communication and TechnologySector in

The Republic of Macedonia

Ivo IvanovskiMinister

Vilnus, Lithania8-July-2013

Computer for Every Pupil

- Purchased 55,000 laptops for 1st to 3rd grade - 22,000 Asus laptops for all the teachers - 165,000 desktops from 4th till 12th grade

Student / Computer=

1.4 / 1

e-Government

e-Government

NOKIA mLab App Campus

Laboratory for Mobile Applications App Campus opens Feb 2013

http://www.developer.nokia.com/http

://www.developer.nokia.com/Distribute/NAX/

http://www.appcampus.fi/http://dev.windowsphone.com/en-ushttp://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/

20,000; 50,000; 70,000 EUR for startups

NASA SPACE App Chalange

ArduSat

We Love Data

1st Prize students from Faculty ofElectronics and Information Tech.

2nd Prize students from St. Apostle Paul University

Electronic communications market in 2011 Mobile $ 276,978,901 Fixed $ 99,405,471

Internet services $ 93,426,372 Data communications $ 10,731,670 Cable television $ 21,487,133 Total $ 502,029,547

• Population- 2,053 million inhabitants• Number of households- 564 thousands• Person per households- 3,6 • Number of business entities- 71 thousands

Electronic communications market in RM

Fixed telephony market overview

Fixed telephony market shares by number of lines in Q4/2011

Mobile market overview

Share of operators in the total number of active subscribers

T-Mobile 52,04%

ONE 22,36%

VIP 25,60%

Mobile penetration rate

ICT Developments in Macedonia

Investment OpportunitiesICT Sector

New 4G LTE auction on July 10th 2013 (three bids)

-Two block of 2x10Mhz on 800Mhz + 2x15Mhz on 1800Mhz starting at 10.000.000 EUR-One block of two 2x5Mhz on 800Mhz and three 2x5Mhz on 1800Mhz for 2.000.000 EUR for each block.

Analog to Digital Switch-off

1st June 2013

Labai Ačiū

CONTACTEmail: Ivo.ivanovski@mioa.gov.mk

Skype: ivo.ivanovskiFacebook: Ivo Ivanovski