Serbia's cable distribution systems: Leaving the gray area of business practices

Abstract

In most European countries, the operation of cable distribution systems has almost completely been regulated in terms of engineering/technological issues and legislation. In The Republic of Serbia, however, there is still a consider able degree of obscurity in this area. Although the cable distribution of radio and TV broadcasts/output is getting incorporated into the sphere of legal economy, the insufficiencies of related legislation, deviations from the technical/technological standards and non-transparent business prac­tices indicate the incompleteness of the regularization in this area of telecommunica­tions. The citizens, as end users, are those who suffer most the damage caused thereby