The Finnish Communications Regulatory Authority, abbreviated to FICORA (, ), was the

public authority A public-benefit nonprofit corporationnonprofit A nonprofit organization (NPO), also known as a nonbusiness entity, nonprofit institution, not-for-profit organization, or simply a nonprofit, is a non-governmental (private) legal entity orga ...

responsible for communication regulations in

Finland Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, ...

. FICORA regulated radio frequencies and television broadcast permits, supervised the operation of

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s, and managed the .fi domain zone. FICORA was headquartered in

Helsinki Helsinki () is the Capital city, capital and most populous List of cities and towns in Finland, city in Finland. It is on the shore of the Gulf of Finland and is the seat of southern Finland's Uusimaa region. About people live in the municipali ...

. FICORA acted as the national telecommunications regulatory body, representing Finland in

ITU The International Telecommunication Union (ITU)In the other common languages of the ITU: * * is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for many matters related to information and communication technologies. It was established ...

and

ETSI The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) is an independent, not-for-profit, standardization organization operating in the field of Information and communications technology, information and communications. ETSI supports the de ...

. It was one of the standards writing bodies working with the

Finnish Standards Association The Finnish Standards Association (SFS, , ) is the central standards organization in Finland. It is a member organization of the ISO The International Organization for Standardization (ISO ; ; ) is an independent, non-governmental, internati ...

. It was founded in 1988 as the State Agency for Telecommunications Administration (THK; , ) by combining the regulatory divisions of the Finnish PTT agency ( fi) and that of

Yleisradio Yleisradio Oy (; ), abbreviated as Yle () (formerly styled in all uppercase until 2012), translated into English as the Finnish Broadcasting Company, is Finland's national public broadcasting company, founded in 1926. It is a joint-stock comp ...

(YLE) into a single agency, and adopted its name in 2001. FICORA, the

Finnish Transport Safety Agency The Finnish Transport Safety Agency (, ), shortened to Trafi, was a Finnish government agency responsible for the promotion of safety in the Finnish transport system. It was overseen by the Finland's Ministry of Transport and Communications. On ...

(Trafi), and certain functions of the

Finnish Transport Agency The Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency (, ), shortened to FTIA, is a Finnish government agency responsible for the maintenance of Finland Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders ...

were merged to form the new

Finnish Transport and Communications Agency The Finnish Transport and Communications Agency (, ), shortened to TRAFICOM, is a Finnish government agency dealing with transport and communication in Finland. The agency expected to employ 900 people across 15 branches in Finland. The main of ...

(Traficom) on 1 January 2019.

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