ANRCETI proposes regulations on universal service for public debates
- 15.04.2009 10:02
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The National Regulatory Agency in Electronic Communications and Information Technology (ANRCETI) posted the draft regulations concerning the universal service on www.anrceti.md for public debates.
The universal service is a minimum set of electronic communications services of a certain quality accessible to all the end-users at reasonable tariffs, regardless of their location.
The set of services includes access to the public fixed-line telephone network at a fixed location, the information service about subscribers and the provision of the registers of subscribers, access to paid public telephones, including free access to the emergency services, the Agency says in a communiqué.
According to the quoted source, the major aim of the regulations is to integrate all the Moldovan people into the information society, including the people on low incomes and with special social needs, by offering the right to benefit from a minimum set of electronic communications services of a certain quality.
The draft regulations stipulate the conditions and procedure for providing the universal service, the designation of the providers of this service, the mechanism for financing and covering the net cost of the universal service, the quality requirements.
The actions, persons in charge and terms of implementing the universal service will be included in the long-term National Program on the Implementation of the Universal Service. The program is to be formulated by the Ministry of Information Development and approved by the Government.
