An Assessment of Progress in the Telecommunications Policy Within the Scope of Regulatory Strategy Until 2015

The purpose of this article is to analyze the progress in the telecommunications policy in Poland narrowed down to the objectives enunciated in the Regulatory Strategy until 2015.In the article the thesis that the current progress in the regulatory strategy is gratifying was confirmed. In the theoretical part the telecommunications policy and its role in the economic development are defined as well as the location of the policy in the classification of public policy is indicated. Furthermore, telecommunications market authorities, which are responsible for creating and conducting the policy in the telecommunication sector, are characterised. In the empirical part, which is based on the quantitative data, the foregoing values of indicators showing the progress in meeting the strategy objectives are presented. The conducted quantitative analysis is extended to the actions taken by the Office of Electronic Communications in order to implement the strategy