The Winners of HAKOM’s Award ”Antun Carić”
The annual prize named after "Antun Carić," is awarded to the published or publicly presented scientific or professional work within HAKOM’s scope of work.
ZAGREB, December 21, 2015 - In memory of Professor Antun Carić, PhD, (passed away in April ,2015) as one of the creators of the Croatian Regulatory Authority for Network Industries (HAKOM) as a modern, independent, national regulatory authority, HAKOM has established the prize named "Antun Carić," which is being awarded to the published or presented scientific or professional work within HAKOM’s scope of work.
Mr.Josip Milanović was awarded first prize for the thesis entitled „Method for Increasing Bandwidth Efficiency of M-ary PPM-Transmitted Reference UWB Communication Systems”. The second awarded was Krešimir Šakić for the thesis entitled „Subjective Quality Assessment of H.265 versus H.264 Video Coding for High-Definition Video Systems “. Krešimir Mazor awarded 3rd place for the thesis entitled “Spectrum Pricing Overview for Digital Dividend in Europe”.
By awarding the annual prize HAKOM promotes professional and scientific development, but it also cultivates the memory of prof. Antun Carić, PhD. Thanks to Mr. Carić many successful programmes and projects began to live such as "e-Agency", the projects in cooperation with the university community in the Republic of Croatia "Looking to the future", and Specialist Study in Electronic Communications Market Regulation as well as the support programme for the development of broadband Internet access.
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ABOUT HAKOM: HAKOM (www.hakom.hr) - Croatian Regulatory Authority for Network Industries – ensures preconditions for a fair market competition, stable growth and environment for innovations in the electronic communications and postal services market. HAKOM protects users’ interests and the possibility of choice among various communications and postal services at affordable prices, defines sustainable competitive conditions for operators and service providers under fair conditions for return on investment, and provides support to economic growth, public services and the quality of life in the Republic of Croatia by using modern technologies. HAKOM’ strategic goals are: to promote regulation of the electronic communications and postal services market, to support growth of investments and innovations in the electronic communications and postal services market, to provide efficient use of limited resources, to accelerate the growth of broadband products and services, to provide affordable offers of communications and postal services, to provide protection and informing of users, to build an efficient and comprehensive information system, to define and implement efficient processes, and to acquire multi-disciplinary competencies in market regulation.