(1) Universal service shall mean the minimum set of services of specified quality which is
available to all end-users in the Republic of Slovenia at an affordable price and regardless of
their geographical location.
(2) The minimum set of services under universal service shall include:
1. connection to the public communications network and access to publicly available
telephone services at a fixed location upon a reasonable request of an end-user, capable of
allowing end-users to make and receive local, national and international telephone calls,
facsimile communications and data communications, at data rates that are sufficient to permit
functional internet access;
2. the provision of access to publicly available telephone services upon a reasonable request
of an end-user via a connection to the public communications network referred to in the
preceding paragraph capable of allowing the establishment and receipt of national and
international telephone calls;
3. the provision of and access to a comprehensive directory and comprehensive telephone
directory enquiry service (hereinafter: comprehensive directory enquiry service) in
accordance with Article 116 of this Act;
4. the provision of public pay telephones or other public voice telephony access points, from
which it is possible to make emergency calls free of charge and without having to use any
means of payment, so as to meet the reasonable needs of end-users in terms of geographical
coverage, number of telephones or other public voice telephony access points, accessibility
for disabled end-users and quality of service;
5. the provision of measures for disabled end-users defined by the Government in agreement
with the minister responsible for the disabled that ensure that the use of and access to the
services referred to in the previous points of this paragraph are equivalent to that enjoyed by
other end-users, including access to emergency services. These measures shall also include
the obligation of a universal service provider to make available to disabled end-users, at a
reasonable price, the purchase or leasing of such terminal equipment that allows them to
enjoy equivalent use of and access to services.
(3) The reasonable request of an end-user referred to in the preceding paragraph shall include
connection to a single location at which the end-user lives or carries on his activity. The
connection may be made using wired or wireless technologies. If an end-user has the
possibility of alternative access to services from the set of universal services at an affordable
price, he may not request these services from a universal service provider under the
conditions of this Chapter.
Article 116
(comprehensive directory and comprehensive directory enquiry service)
(1) The comprehensive directory must contain at least the details referred to in points 1 to 4
of the first paragraph of Article 148 of this Act on all subscribers of publicly available
telephone services that have given their prior consent in accordance with Article 150 of this
Act. The comprehensive directory may be in printed or electronic format. The Agency shall
give its prior consent to the format.
(2) The comprehensive directory enquiry service, to which all end-users, including users of
public pay telephones, must have access at an affordable price, must contain information on
all the subscribers included in the comprehensive directory.
(3) Information in the comprehensive directory must be updated on a regular basis or at least
once a year, taking into account the method of its publication. The information provided by a
comprehensive directory enquiry service must be updated at least once a month. A universal