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   Comparison of SMP operators´prices for fixed call termination and call origination
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  Year 2009
   More and more households have broadband access
   FICORA's CERT-FI annual review 2008
   FICORA to issue new proposal on broadband market regulation in Finland
   The Safer Internet Day supports parents in media education in 2009: Mother or father, find out how your child uses the media!
   People pose the greatest risk to information security in mobile work
   New website on the protection of messages in electronic communications
   Campaign for good mobile phone manners reached users
   Intensified control of wireless microphone usage in 2009
   Advance information on FICORA's Annual Market Review 2008: Broadband subscriptions reach 2 million
   FICORA market review 2008: Economic downturn not reflected in subscription figures
   FICORA's CERT-FI information security review 1/2009: Network worm infects computers, malware also conquer other devices
   GSM Suomi Oyj's mobile phone subscriptions possibly terminated after 14 April 2009
   Telecoms operators agree on new mobile termination charges - FICORA requires price reductions in 2010 and 2011
   Major drop in European mobile call prices - prices in Finland slightly higher than last year
   Use of mobile phones to go down in price in the EU
   FICORA's CERT-FI information security review 2/2009: Malware spread through web ads
   FICORA urges users to install patches against serious software vulnerabilities at once
   Thousands of fi-domain names to expire in August-September
   Validity period of fi-domain names extended to 5 years
   FICORA market review 2/2009: Mobile communications market shows signs of recovery
   Patch available for vulnerabilities in TCP implementations
   FICORA's CERT-FI information security review 3/2009: Data-stealing malware also common in Finland
   Price level increase of telecom services stays below consumer price rise
   FICORA urges network operators to take action to thwart phishing, pharming
   Telecom operators obliged to notify of information security of communications services
   Communication is the most important reason why the young use the internet
   Supreme Administrative Court dismissed TV operators' appeal against the pricing of analogue broadcasting services
  Year 2008
   Common Internet sense will again be the theme of the Safer Internet Day
   FICORA coordinates repair of wide array of software vulnerabilities
   FICORA market review 2007: Mobile broadband becoming more common
   TV fees can now be given as gifts
   CERT-FI information security review 1/2008: Finnish internet banking sessions hijacked by malware
   Mobile calls inexpensive in Finland
   Finland successful in international comparison of communications markets
   FICORA's CERT-FI information security review 2/2008: Security of web services tested in many ways
   FICORA market review 2/2008: Growth in wireless data transmission
   New regulation to improve availability and information security of e-mail services
   FICORA's CERT-FI information security review 3/2008: Reliability of internet services menaced by DNS vulnerability
   FICORA introduces eInvoicing
   FICORA follow-up survey: K ratings and broadcasting times of TV programmes still rather ill-known
   Change-of-address services nearly faultless
   FICORA surveyed the programme content of radio stations subject to licence
   A warning to Subtv because of the TV programme Big Brother
  Year 2007
   Nordic regulators' survey results: Same targets for broadband policy and regulation - variations in connection prices
   Termination charges to be considerably reduced - the outcome of negotiations between operators in line with FICORA’s views
   FICORA's survey on digital TV: Households put off purchasing a digital set top box
   FICORA market review 1/2007 - Users interested in mobile data
   FICORA's report: Ineffective competition in calls to universal access numbers
   FICORA has granted its 150,000th fi-domain name
   Travellers pay less for mobile calls in the EU countries
   Obligation to pay television fee remains the same in digital era - cable households must pay even though they do not have a digital box
   Room for improvement for Finns in safer use of mobile phone - Information security guidelines provide advice for consumers in plain language
   Operators find common ground in reducing wholesale charges - Price reductions expected for calls made to business numbers
   FICORA's frequency decision: GSM frequencies can be used in 3G networks
   FICORA market review 3/2007 - Use of mobile data on the rise
  Year 2006
   Private persons applied for fi-domain names at a steady pace
   Fi-domain names to be granted to private persons as of 1 March at 8.00 a.m.
   Renewal of fi-domain names - tens of thousands of domain names will expire during the summer and next autumn
   Significant step towards mobile information society: television frequencies to be used more flexibly
  Year 2005
   FICORA coordinates worldwide search for severe vulnerabilities
   Frequencies for future mobile systems under consideration in Helsinki
   More competition in the fixed network – universal access numbers becoming portable
   Letters å, ä and ö possible in fi-domain names as of 1 September 2005
   Consumers know little about the costs of using a mobile phone abroad
   Opinion on regulation of Skype services in Finland accomplished
   FICORA analysed the national communications markets first in the European Union
   Mobile operators reduce wholesale prices substantially - FICORA is content with trend
   FICORA improves its services on domain name availability search and contact information search
  Year 2004
   National Information Security Awareness Project to Culminate with Information Security Day on 11 February 2004
   The EU Commission to give its first opinions on FICORA's SMP decisions
   International comparative study: Powers and resources of FICORA’s economic regulation insufficient
   TeliaSonera to change its wholesale pricing of mobile communications networks - Supreme Administrative Court dismissed the operator’s appeal
   Control mechanisms for programmes containing harmful material for children to be increased
  Year 2003
   FICORA opens a service automation system for domain names on 11 August 2003 - it is possible to apply for new domain names from 1 September
   Finnish domain names in compliance with the new Act can be applied for as of 1 September 2003 at 8:00 a.m.
   The new Act on Domain Names enters into force on September 1, 2003
   The Nordic countries among the first to implement the EU communications legislation
  Year 2002
   FICORA to chair a central cooperation group for European telecommunications authorities
   IRG agreed on a candidate for ERG Chairmanship
   IRG welcomes 10 new members at meeting with colleagues from accession countries
   Information security report for Finland published - substantial variation in the level of information security in different sectors of society
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  2009
   FICORA received project programmes from Finnish regional councils
   Season's greetings
   New layout for fi-domain name service
   Television fees total 1,916,256 at the end of 2008
   FICORA granted 200,000th fi-domain name
   Safer Internet Day Week culminates with Safer Internet Day on 10 February
   How to cancel chargeable text messages
   Number of television fees at the end of January
   Severe vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer 7, Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat
   Number of television fees at the end of February
   Record number of new fi-domain name registrations in February
   Fi-domain names for five years
   Instructions for the mobile phone customers of GSM Suomi Oyj (updated 8.4.)
   Number of television fees at the end of March
   Inappropriate marketing of domain names targeted at fi-domain name holders - FICORA counsels caution
   Working group proposes: TV fees to be collected until the end of 2010
   Number of television fees at the end of April
   FICORA participates again in eInvoice campaign
   New name server for the top-level domain .fi introduced
   Annual report online 2008 has been published
   Public consultation on draft ERG Roaming Guidelines
   Number of television fees at the end of May
   Study: Mobile content sells despite the challenge posed by free-of-charge services
   FICORA to hold a spectrum auction
   Mobile phone use abroad
   Market review on international communications markets
   Kirsi Karlamaa appointed Director of Radio Frequencies
   Valid television notifications totalled 1,908,353 in late June
   Use of radio microphones and aids for the hearing impaired in the frequency band 174–230 MHz must be restricted
   July's television fee rates
   Problems may occur when using Internet Explorer 8 for the Domain Name Service
   Act on electronic identification to promote the provision and use of identification services
   Television fee rates in August
   Registrations for auction by 7 October 2009
   Open house for the public at FICORA on Friday, 2 October
   Statistics on postal and small transportation operations published
   Broadcasting fee introduced on 1 January 2012
   Number of television fees at the end of September
   Safe Online on NRJ
   Radio microphone frequency information at AudioVisual 2009 Fair
   Fi-domain name campaign begins
   Number of television fees at the end of October
   FICORA to launch 2.6 GHz spectrum auction
   National Information Security Strategy introduced
   Spectrum auction concluded
   FICORA proposes reduction in fi-domain name fees
   Information security notifications given by Finnish telecom operators affected by Swedish legislation
   Season's greetings
   Media education in Finnish families
   Television fee figures in November
   FICORA's survey on content of radios subject to license
  2008
   Television fees total 1 947 044 at the end of 2007
   Financial result of television fees in 2007 as budgeted
   Finnish TV goes Digital
   Thousands of new TV notifications submitted
   The number of viewers who terminated their television fee due to the digital switch-over is now 18,431
   Annual report online has been published
   FICORA's forms grouped together
   Unusual amounts of malware in networks
   FICORA introduces new .fi root name server
   Finland's .fi domain is safe
   Valid television fees totalled 1,919,704 in late May
   Use of radio microphones continues unchanged for the time being
   Police better equipped for handling information security breaches
   Mobile phone use abroad
   Revised regulations on numbering and barring categories
   Assessment principles for the pricing of mobile termination have been updated
   Valid television fees totalled 1,914,318 in late June
   Watch out for scam e-mails
   Valid television notifications amounted to 1,909,166 at end of July
   Television fees to be raised 1 January 2009
   Television fees on the rise
   YLE Areena's new registration
   Number of television fees at the end of September
   FICORA participates in eInvoicing campaign
   New 12-month validity period for fi-domain names
   Slight rise in television fee numbers
   Online invoicing of radio administrative service fees to companies
   Telecom service prices and quality
   Television fees on the rise
   Campaign for good mobile phone manners awarded
   Season's greetings
   Image of fi-domain name surveyed
   Finland represented in ICANN
  2007
   Fi-domain name fee cut
   New website for CERT-FI group
   Newest customer magazine Signaali published
   RIPE NCC DNS monitoring service for the fi-domain names
   Annual report online has been published
   Latest issue of Signaali now available
   The Eurotariff introduced
   Valid television notifications total 1,947,779 - TV fee must also be paid in the digital era
   Occasional interruptions to websites ficora.fi and cert.fi
   Director-General Hagman wins opinion leader title of Tietoviikko magazine
   Season's greetings
   Latest issue of Signaali now available
  2006
   Renewal of fi-domain names
   Season's greetings
   Latest issue of customer magazine Signaali published
 Notices for customers
  Fi-domain names
   2008
    An Interruption in the fi-domain name service between 12.00 - 14.30 p.m. on 25th. November 2008
    New service to verify the performance of the name services of fi-domain names
    The market survey
   2007
    An Interruption in the fi-domain name service between 07.30 a.m. and 07.45 a.m. on 16. February 2007
    Websites under the country code .fi rated the safest in the world
    RIPE NCC DNS monitoring service for the fi-domain names
    An Interruption in the fi-domain name service between 16.00 p.m. and 08.00 a.m. on 19 - 20. June 2007
   2009
    An Interruption in the fi-domain name service between 07.00 a.m. and 08.00 a.m. on 8th may 2009
    New name server for the top-level domain .fi introduced
    Interruption in use of fi-Domain Name Service on Mon 31 Aug at 20.00-24.00
    FICORA proposes reduction in fi-domain name fees
    Interruption in use of fi-Domain Name Service on Tue 15 Dec at 19.00-24.00
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   2008
    Guidance concerning use of radio equipment in Finland at short term events
    Licensed and licence-exempt radio microphones in the 800 MHz frequency band
    Use of radio microphones continues unchanged for the time being
   2007
    Radio microphones and aids for the hearing impaired in the frequency band 174 - 230 MHz
   2006
    Common channels subject to licence and allocated to trade and industry in entire Finland
    Channels in the 67 - 72 MHz frequency band reserved for hobby usage and professional communications
    PMR 446 radiotelephones in Finland
    Common data transmission and D-GPS channels subject to licence in the whole of Finland
    Frequencies and constructional requirements for fixed radio networks using radio modems
    Additional frequencies for 800 MHz radio microphones
    Use of radio links in the frequency band 57.2 - 58.2 GHz
   2009
    Common channels subject to licence and allocated to trade and industry throughout Finland
    Digital common DMR channels subject to licence and allocated to trade and industry throughout Finland
    Channels in the 67 - 72 MHz frequency band reserved for hobby usage and professional communications
    Common data transmission and D-GPS channels subject to licence throughout Finland
    Frequencies and constructional requirements for fixed radio networks using radio modems
    Use of radio links in the frequency band 57.2 - 58.2 GHz
    Licences needed for hunting radio
    Licensed and licence-exempt radio microphones in the 800 MHz frequency band
    Use of radio microphones in the 470 - 862 MHz band continues for now
    Radio microphones and hearing aids in the frequency band 174 - 230 MHz
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