Telecoms: Price Control and Universal Service

A Consumer Guide (December 1995)

CONTENTS

Consultation details

Section 1: Pricing of Telecommunications Services from 1997

• Price controls and competition: benefits to customers
• Future prospects for customers
• What is price control?
• Why is a price control review necessary?
• What Oftel wants to achieve
• Structure of the new price controls
• What type of price control would you prefer?
• Other issues
• Summary of questions

Section 2: Universal Telecommunications Services

• Background
• The European dimension
• Aims and objectives
• Definitions of universal service
• Costing universal service
• Monitoring and reviewing universal service
• Summary of questions