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The Universal Service Obligation (USO) Policy and Law. The Project helped expand rural access to telecommunications and the Internet through assistance to the MCTI and ANRC and by sharing lessons learned with the World Bank Office in Romania. In July 2002, the Project began assisting the Ministry with drafting a law on universal service obligations as per the EU aquis communataire. Given the complexities involved with the use Universal Service Funds, the Project sought alternative approaches to assist both XXXX and ANRC with the law and implementation, respectively. After designing and launching a successful demonstration telecenter activity with private sector donations in five underserved regions by 2005, the Project presented a document to the ANRC and MCTI highlighting key aspects that the Universal Service Policy could cover, including transparent tendering processes and the role of the potential role of the private sector. In May 2004, the MCTI Minister announced a decision on the Universal Service Obligation Policy, incorporating analysis submitted by the Project. The alternative to the telecenter solution would have been much more expensive. XXXX would have continued requesting that RomTelecom install subsidized new lines to individual subscribers. XxxXxxxxxx reportedly calculated the cost for to expand access throughout Romania to be about 520 million euro per year. This amount is vastly different from the amount now set for the private sector contribution to the Universal Service Fund. Therefore, the Project not provided a demonstration on how the private sector could work with local officials as an alternative solution through telecenters, the investments made through installing individual Romtelcom subscriber lines would have been an expensive choice but pone with limited impact. An annual total of 16 million euros are now allocated for the establishment of new telecenters through the USO, these will be financed by the Romanian ICT sector through the obligatory USF contributions. Using suggestions from the Project, the ANRC defined a transparent public tendering process for applying to the Universal Service Fund for creation of telecenters (providing telephone, Internet, and facsimile) in communities located in rural and underserved areas. The Project recommended that local authorities in each municipality have responsibility for management of the telecenter, thus reducing the obligations for the Universal Service providers. After establishing these procedures, the ANRC launched a public tender pro...
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