4.2.3 Functions of the Regulator Regulation and Licensing The Authority will: • Regulate the ICT sector, the regulator shall make rules and procedures for the provision of ICT products and services and will enforce them. • Provide Licensing of all ICT service providers. • Undertake the review of existing licenses and fees, determine appropriate classes of licenses, and monitor and enforce compliance with relevant legislation and regulations. • Determine procedures for allocation and management of scarce resource (e.g. frequencies and numbering schemes) • Improve licensing regimes to promote fair competition. • Ensuring that licence fee structures encourage investment, do not unduly burden operators and service providers or deter new entrants. • Impose sanctions for violations of compliance covering legal, regulatory and licence obligations by operators and service providers including monetary penalties. • Regulate tariffs as and when required in the public interest, and undertake responsibility to educate consumers, to facilitate their active participation in tariff review forums. • Treat all of its licensees equally and apply the same means of ensuring compliance with existing rules and license obligations. Universal access/service • Develop specific indicators of ICT access that reasonably meet Lesotho’s socio-economic aspirations • Provide for universal service obligations in all licenses issued for infrastructure development. • Implement the universal service policy ICT Policy for Lesotho 52