Examples of Universal Service Regulations in a sentence
The FY2009 request provided a 20.2% increase for the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) directorate.
NOTE: In accordance with Paragraph 12.4 of the Universal Service Regulations #7795, “Every telecommunications company whose annual gross income of $25,000 or less shall not be obligated to contribute to the Universal Service Fund during that particular year”.
The current review is carried out in accordance with the Universal Service Regulations.
This document also implements certain obligations related to numbers that arise from the Universal Service Regulations, the Access Regulations, the Act of 2002 and European Commission Decisions.
The purpose of the draft Telecommunications (Universal Service) Regulations 2013 is to provide the necessary legal bases for the operation of the Universal Service Fund and for the imposition of obligations on concessionaires to implement such Universal Service initiatives as may be identified by the Authority.
Regulation 7(3) of the Universal Service Regulations requires ComReg to “adopt an efficient, objective, transparent and non-discriminatory designation mechanism whereby no undertaking is in principle excluded from being designated.” Furthermore, Recital 14 of the Universal Service Directive suggests that Member States take into account the ability and the willingness of undertakings to accept all or part of the USO.
The Universal Service Regulations require that a comprehensive directory is offered to all end-users in a form approved by the Authority, whether printed or electronic, or both, and is updated annually; and a comprehensive telephone directory enquiry service is made available to all end-users, including users of public pay telephones.
On 29 November 2013, ComReg notified Eircom that it had amended the original notification of non-compliance in accordance with Regulation 31(4) of the Universal Service Regulations.
That decision states: Under the terms of Regulation 20(8) of the European Communities (Voice Telephony and Universal Service) Regulations, 1999, the Director considers that in order to ensure effective competition, operators with SMP in the Fixed Public Telephone Network and Services Market should offer unbundled bitstream access on non-discriminatory, fair and reasonable terms.
Following the publication of the Authority’s Decisions on Recommendations, the proposed amendments to the Telecommunications (Universal Service) Regulations, 2015 will be submitted to the Minister of Public Administration and Communications for approval and promulgation through negative resolution of Parliament in accordance with section 78 of the Act, with Schedule 3 to be amended by Order pursuant to Regulation 16(3) of the Regulations.