The Telecommunications Office of the Slovak Republic (TÚ SR) is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, and on this occasion, its four-member relay team of recreational runners will participate in the ČSOB Bratislava Marathon on Sunday. Both sexes are represented in the TÚ SR relay called "REGULATORS Running Team" and its average age is 27 years. On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the establishment of TÚ SR, radio amateurs will also have a chance to establish a radio amateur connection with the occasional station throughout the year. OM20TUSR, which is served by a spokesman for the Slovak National Audit Office. During the year, TÚ SR will also prepare other activities that will bring its activities to the public.
Citizens most often come across the activities of the TÚ SR when it helps them solve problems with radio and television interference and in the out-of-court settlement of disputes with telecommunications operators. TÚ SR supports competition between operators through its activities, which benefits service users. Thanks to the work of TÚ SR, a third mobile operator came to Slovakia, number portability was introduced, competition increased and prices for telephone calls and internet fell. TÚ SR has significantly reduced connection fees in both mobile and fixed networks and shortened the time for porting a number. Before the call is connected, the caller knows that he is calling a network other than his own. TÚ SR regularly alerts consumers to various dangers and raises their awareness of their rights and obligations so that they do not get into unnecessary trouble through ignorance.
TÚ SR was established by law in 1993, but the work of its predecessors for citizens has been here since the end of the Second World War. The oldest activity of TÚ SR and its predecessors is connected with the development of radio and later television broadcasting, when its predecessors were already looking for sources of jamming of radio, television and radio networks of airports, firefighters, taxi services, police, etc. This activity is carried out by TÚ SR until now, the most frequent sources of interference are changing. In the past, interference was often caused by household appliances, later by oscillating preamplifiers of common and individual television antennas, fax machines, impulse sources, chargers, remote control of gates, and there were also cases of interfering radiation from "plasma" televisions.
TÚ SR was originally a subordinate organization of the Ministry of Transport and later became an independent regulator in the field of electronic communications. TÚ SR is one of the few state institutions that does not burden the state budget, on the contrary, it contributes to it for years. The financing of the TÚ SR is ensured by a refinancing mechanism from recurring payments, which the TÚ SR determines and collects from telecommunications operators. The state budget obtains funds that are collected by the TÚ SR on a one-time basis for the allocation of frequencies in tender procedures. TÚ SR is not a typical office, but its employees are required to be highly qualified and specialized. The Technical University of the Slovak Republic employs university-educated specialists mainly in the fields of electrical engineering, radio engineering, telecommunications technologies, economics and law.
In Bratislava on March 21, 2013
Roman Vavro, spokesman of the Slovak Technical University