The mission of the MCA is: ‘To regulate the electronic communications, eCommerce and postal sectors with a view to achieving sustainable competition, enabling customer choice and value-for-money; To facilitate the development of an environment that is conducive to investment,innovatin and continued social and economic growth.’
In carrying out its mission the MCA is committed to performing in a manner that is transparent, proportionate, non-discriminatory and objective. The mission statement implies a number of principles, which the MCA needs to hold central to all the activities that it carries out:
- The realisation of a range of electronic communications and postal services of high quality and competitive prices that is best achieved through the development of fair and sustainable competition.
- In the absence of competition, regulation will seek to simulate the effects of competition.
- Regulation will cater for the interests of citizens and consumers but will also take into account the exigencies of service providers.
- Regulation will tend towards technological and service neutrality and be sufficiently flexible as to enable change and allow for technology and service convergence.
- Regulatory decisions will be transparent and accessible in order to facilitate decisions by market players, policy makers and other stakeholders.
- The MCA’s regulatory activity should serve to overall contribute to Malta’s transition to a knowledge based society and economy.
- The wider implications at a European market level will be taken into account in the formulation of any decisions at the local level.
- The furthering of overall social and economic welfare should be another outcome of the MCA’s regulatory activity.
- Further to its regulatory remit the MCA will encourage citizens and business to embrace Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as a key enabler to social and economic welfare.
