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The connection provided shall also allow an appropriate Internet access for all subscribers
and users, taking into account prevailing connection speed available to the majority of
subscribers, technological feasibility and costs.
Provisions on the minimum speed of an appropriate Internet access are laid down by
Ministry of Transport and Communications Decree. Prior to the issuance of the Decree, Ficora
shall, where necessary, examine the data transfer service markets, prevailing connection
speeds available to the majority of subscribers and level of technological development, as well
as produce an estimate of the financial impacts of regulation on telecommunications operators.
Ficora may issue further regulations on how the connection is to be implemented technically
or on what technical features the connection shall have.
Section 88
Other obligations and rights related to providing a subscriber connection
A universal service provider may also provide the services referred to in sections 86 and 87
through several subscriber connections if this does not cause unreasonable additional costs to
the subscriber and user.
A universal service provider is obliged to offer a subscriber who is a natural person the
possibility to pay compensation for the construction of a subscriber connection referred to in
sections 86 and 87 in several instalments. A universal service provider is allowed to refuse the
obligation only if there are reasonable grounds for refusal arising from solvency of a
subscriber who is a natural person.
A universal service provider has the right to refuse to enter into an agreement for a
subscriber connection referred to in sections 86 and 87 with a subscriber that is being
prosecuted or has been sentenced in the past year for disrupting communications using a
telecommunications operator’s subscriber connection or has outstanding, matured indisputable
debts incurred from the use of another telecommunications operator’s subscriber connection.
Section 89
Universal service obligation concerning the provision of directory inquiry service
An operator that Ficora has assigned as a universal service provider for directory inquiry
services and telephone directory services as referred to in section 85 is obliged to provide
users and subscribers access to a publicly available, comprehensive and reasonably priced
directory inquiry services or telephone directory services
A telephone directory may be in printed or electronic form and shall be updated at least once
a year.
Ficora may issue further regulations on technical measures necessary to meet the obligation
referred to in subsection 1.
Section 90
Universal service obligation concerning network service
A network operator that Ficora has designated as a universal service provider as referred to
in section 85 is obliged, at a cost-based price, to provide the service operator designated as a
universal service provider with a network service needed for connecting to a communications
network.