The Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority, abbreviated to FICORA ( fi, Viestintävirasto, sv, Kommunikationsverket), was the
public authority responsible for communication regulations in
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...
. FICORA regulated radio frequencies and television broadcast permits, supervised the operation of
Internet service provider
An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organization that provides services for accessing, using, or participating in the Internet. ISPs can be organized in various forms, such as commercial, community-owned, non-profit, or otherwise privat ...
s, and managed the
.fi domain zone. FICORA was headquartered in
Helsinki
Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the capital, primate, and most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of Uusimaa in southern Finland, and has a population of . The city ...
.
FICORA acted as the national telecommunications regulatory body, representing Finland in
ITU
The International Telecommunication Union is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for many matters related to information and communication technologies. It was established on 17 May 1865 as the International Telegraph Unio ...
and
ETSI. It was one of the standards writing bodies working with the
Finnish Standards Association. It was founded in 1988 as the State Agency for Telecommunications Administration (THK; fi, Telehallintokeskus, sv, Teleförvaltningscentralen) by combining the regulatory divisions of the Finnish PTT agency
( fi) and that of
Yleisradio
Yleisradio Oy (Finnish, literally "General Radio Ltd." or "General Broadcast Ltd."; abbr. Yle ; sv, Rundradion Ab, italics=no), translated to English as the Finnish Broadcasting Company, is Finland's national public broadcasting company, founde ...
(YLE) into a single agency, and adopted its name in 2001.
FICORA, the
Finnish Transport Safety Agency (Trafi), and certain functions of the Finnish Transport Agency were merged to form the new
Finnish Transport and Communications Agency
Finnish may refer to:
* Something or someone from, or related to Finland
* Culture of Finland
* Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland
* Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people
* Finnish cuisine
See also ...
(Traficom) on 1 January 2019.
External links
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References
Mass media in Finland
Government of Finland
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