From October, More Than 800 Rural Settlements to Get Broadband Communication Infrastructure

The state secretary at the Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications, Milan Dobrijevic, opened the regional conference on the trends in telecommunications and media “Digital 2022” in Belgrade and, on that occasion, pointed out that the competent ministry was implementing the project of the development of broadband communication infrastructure in rural areas, which would cover more than 150,000 households in over 800 settlements throughout Serbia, and that the execution of the works was to begin in October.

Dobrijevic highlighted the connecting of the schemes of the electronic identification of the citizens of the Western Balkans within the “Open Balkan” initiative and said that the project would bring numerous benefits to the citizens of the signatory states, such as the establishment of the Open Balkan ID number.

The state secretary announced the continuation of the completion of the project “Connected Schools”, when fast and reliable internet would be implemented in around 1,800 schools in Serbia, the digitization of the public administration would be accelerated and the conditions for the operations of mobile operators would improve.

He also emphasized that the drafts of the Law on Electronic Communications and the Law on Broadband Access had been prepared, to the end of harmonizing with the relevant European regulations.

Ministarstvo turizma i omladine Republike Srbije

Ministry of Trade

Milan Dobrijević

Digital 2022

project of development of broadband communications infrastructure

Open Balkan ID number

electronic identification scheme

Open Balkan

Connected Schools