standard terms and conditions established by it for the provision of communications services. The specified
information is made available in a clear and understandable document and in a machine-readable manner.
(3) The information specified in subsection 2 of this section is submitted, upon request, in a format suitable for
people with special needs.
(4) A provider of number-independent interpersonal communications services must publish on its website
information about enabling access to emergency connection.
(5) Upon entering into a communications services contract, communications undertakings other than providers
of number-independent interpersonal communications services or machine-to-machine services are required to
inform the consumer of an opportunity to enter into a communications services contract for a maximum term of
one year.
(6) A fixed-term communications services contract entered into with a consumer other than a contract for
number-independent interpersonal communications services or machine-to-machine communications services
may not have a term of more than two years.
(7) Subsections 5 and 6 of this section do not apply to the duration of an instalment contract where the
consumer has agreed in a separate contract to instalment payments exclusively for deployment of a physical
connection. The instalment contract for deployment of a physical connection does not include terminal
equipment.
(8) Subsections 5–7 of this section also apply to end-users who are micro or small undertakings and to nonprofit associations unless they have waived it.
[RT I, 15.12.2021, 1 – entry into force 01.02.2022, subsection 3 is applied as of 28 June 2025]
§ 961. Bundles
(1) Where a bundle of services or a bundle of communications services and terminal equipment include internet
access services or number-based interpersonal communications services, the provisions of § 89, subsection 7 of
§ 951and §§ 96, 99 and 100 of this Act apply to the whole bundle of services or the bundle of communications
services and terminal equipment.
(2) A bundle of services means the provision of at least two or more communications services by a
communications undertaking to a consumer on the basis of the same communications services contract.
(3) If a consumer orders an additional service or terminal equipment from a provider of internet access services
or number-based interpersonal communications services, the duration of the consumer's communications
services contract is not extended unless the consumer has consented thereto upon ordering the additional service
or terminal equipment.
(4) Subsections 1–3 of this section also apply to end-users who are micro or small undertakings and to nonprofit associations unless they have waived it.
[RT I, 15.12.2021, 1 – entry into force 01.02.2022]
§ 97. Elimination of communications network faults
(1) An end-user of communications services must inform the repair service of the communications undertaking
of any fault in the communications network. A communications undertaking must organise the receipt from
end-users of communications services and recording of information concerning faults, inform the end-users
of communications services of the procedure and times for the receipt of such information and, after receiving
information on a fault, provide information about the time period needed for elimination of the fault.
(2) A communications undertaking shall eliminate a fault in the communications network or a line of an enduser within a reasonable period of time after becoming aware of the fault.
(3) In the case of a fault in the communications network, an end-user of communications services must provide
access for the representative of the communications undertaking to the equipment which forms part of the
network, to the terminal equipment and to other terminal equipment connected to the communications network
through such terminal equipment for inspecting the equipment and for determining the location of the fault.
(4) The costs of elimination of faults in the line, terminal equipment or other terminal equipment connected to
the communications network through such terminal equipment, if belonging to an end-user of communications
services, shall be covered by the end-user of communications services, except in the cases where the
communications undertaking is responsible for causing the fault.
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