CYTA

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CY.T.A. (Cyprus Telecommunications Authority)

Type	public utility
Founded	1961
Headquarters	Cyprus
Area served	Cyprus
Industry	Telecoms
Products	Telephone Cable television Broadband Mobile phone
Operating income	CYP £230,450,000 (2005) ^[1]
Employees	2,500 (2005)
Website	http://www.cyta.com.cy/

This article is about the Cyprus Telecommunication Authority. For the ICAO airport code listing see Pembroke Airport.

CYTA (short for CYprus Telecommunication Authority) or ATHK (Αρχή Τηλεπικοινωνιών Κύπρου in Greek) is the national telecommunications provider of Cyprus and the main operator of phone, Internet and mobile communications (CytaMobile, operated by Vodafone) in Cyprus.

The company covers the whole country with digital PSTN and ISDN telephone lines and also offers ADSL in all urban areas. Cyta is a group of companies owning an ISP (Cytanet), a mobile phone company (Cytamobile-Vodafone) and many other companies including CYTA International Investments.

It has recently ventured into the world of digital and interactive TV via its miVision platform.

On many occasions Cyta has been subpoena to huge amounts of fines by the Commission for the Protection of Competition and by the Commissioner of Electronic Communications and Postal Regulation for antimonopoly practices. Many allergy illegal takeovers are also investigated recently (ref. secret agreements of CYTA miVision and Lumier TV, investigation is undergoing by the Cyprus Parliament){[2]}. It has been accused and fined on aggressive antimonopoly behaviour against other rival internet service providers, lease intenet lines (Callsat Telecom Vs CYTA invicted by the Commission){[3]}, mobile phone providers, rival phone hotlines and helplines, fined for huge over profits (81 million in 2000) and many more{[4]}.

CYTA was fined and ordered to return (in 2000 81 million and today at least 380 million) to customers (since 2000) but since today has failed to do so. The estimated profit after miVision & LTV takeover yearly 200-300 million skyrocketing the yearly cash flow of the company too 700 million{[5]}.

Also, the General Director has ailed to provide access to his company email and its history to commissioner which CYTA is been fined 5000 pounds daily. The commissioner is expected to prosit to a confiscation of the email history{[6]}.

Cyta was one of the first ADSL providers in Europe and became one of the last in services after very poor investments of their huge over profits^{[citation needed]}.