FTTH deployment is increasingly a component of meeting universal service obligations, for example, the United Arab Emirates has not introduced a USO as all premises in the country have access to FTTH and are thus capable of very high connection speeds.
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With roll-over targets, telcos will be obliged to meet the Universal Service Obligation, which refers to the provision of telecommunications services to anyone who wants it, within a reasonable time and at a reasonable cost, even if it may be uneconomical to do so.
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With regard to the " Universal Service Obligation " ( USO ) where telephony services can be enjoyed at affordable prices by all, " arrangements will be made to share this responsibility among all operators and this will include a compulsory contribution to a USO fund ".
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The parameters that improved compared to the 2006 survey were : interconnection, tariff regulation, regulation of anti-competitive practices, and universal service obligation in the mobile sector; and market entry, interconnection, regulation of anti-competitive practices and universal service obligation in the fixed sector.
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The parameters that improved compared to the 2006 survey were : interconnection, tariff regulation, regulation of anti-competitive practices, and universal service obligation in the mobile sector; and market entry, interconnection, regulation of anti-competitive practices and universal service obligation in the fixed sector.
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BT is still the main provider of fixed telephones lines, both POTS and ISDN, and it has a universal service obligation, although companies can now contract Openreach to install a phoneline on their behalf, rather than telling the customer to get BT to install it, then transfer over.
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With the final abolition of the Royal Mail monopoly ( but not its universal service obligation ), DSA mail makes up an ever increasing proportion of mail received in the UK . However 99.8 percent of the mail delivered is delivered to Royal Mail to deliver for these third party suppliers.
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While not explicitly defined, the Postal Service's universal service obligation ( USO ) is broadly outlined in statute and includes multiple dimensions : geographic scope, range of products, access to services and facilities, delivery frequency, affordable and uniform pricing, service quality, and security of the mail.
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The Members of BEREC met for the first time in January 2010 in Brussels to elect a chairman and vice chairmen, who will serve a 12-month term and will likely focus initially on topics such as Next Generation Access, Net Neutrality, Universal Service Obligations and the functional separation of local network access and backhaul network access.
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The CCA units also assist in the administration of Universal Service Obligation Fund under the Ministry of Communications & IT for providing telecom service in rural / remote areas of the country involving ( a ) planning & forecasting, ( b ) tendering, ( c ) costing, ( d ) disbursement of support to service providers, and ( e ) monitoring.
