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Directive 2009/136/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 November 2009 amending Directive 2002/22/EC on universal service and users’ rights relating to electronic communications networks and services, Directive 2002/58/EC concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector and Regulation (EC) No 2006/2004 on cooperation between national authorities responsible for the enforcement of consumer protection laws (Text with EEA relevance)
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Member States are to ensure that national regulatory authorities, subject to the requirements of relevant legislation on the protection of personal data and privacy, may lay down the basic level of itemised bills which are to be provided by undertakings to subscribers free of charge in order that they can:
allow verification and control of the charges incurred in using the public communications network at a fixed location and/or related publicly available telephone services; and
adequately monitor their usage and expenditure and thereby exercise a reasonable degree of control over their bills.
Where appropriate, additional levels of detail may be offered to subscribers at reasonable tariffs or at no charge.
Calls which are free of charge to the calling subscriber, including calls to helplines, are not to be identified in the calling subscriber's itemised bill.
i.e. the facility whereby the subscriber can, on request to the designated undertaking that provides telephone services, bar outgoing calls or premium SMS or MMS or other kinds of similar applications of defined types or to defined types of numbers free of charge.
Member States are to ensure that national regulatory authorities may require designated undertakings to provide means for consumers to pay for access to the public communications network and use of publicly available telephone services on pre-paid terms.
Member States are to ensure that national regulatory authorities may require designated undertakings to allow consumers to pay for connection to the public communications network on the basis of payments phased over time.
Member States are to authorise specified measures, which are to be proportionate, non-discriminatory and published, to cover non-payment of telephone bills issued by undertakings. These measures are to ensure that due warning of any consequent service interruption or disconnection is given to the subscriber beforehand. Except in cases of fraud, persistent late payment or non-payment, these measures are to ensure, as far as is technically feasible that any service interruption is confined to the service concerned. Disconnection for non-payment of bills should take place only after due warning is given to the subscriber. Member States may allow a period of limited service prior to complete disconnection, during which only calls that do not incur a charge to the subscriber (e.g. ‘112’ calls) are permitted.
i.e. the facility whereby subscribers may request the undertaking to provide information regarding alternative lower-cost tariffs, if available.
i.e. the facility whereby undertakings offer other means, if determined to be appropriate by national regulatory authorities, to control the costs of publicly available telephone services, including free-of-charge alerts to consumers in case of abnormal or excessive consumption patterns.
i.e. the public communications network and/or publicly available telephone services supports the use of DTMF tones as defined in ETSI ETR 207 for end-to-end signalling throughout the network both within a Member State and between Member States.
i.e. the calling party’s number is presented to the called party prior to the call being established.
This facility should be provided in accordance with relevant legislation on protection of personal data and privacy, in particular Directive 2002/58/EC (Directive on privacy and electronic communications).
To the extent technically feasible, operators should provide data and signals to facilitate the offering of calling-line identity and tone dialling across Member State boundaries.
The requirement that all subscribers with numbers from the national numbering plan, who so request can retain their number(s) independently of the undertaking providing the service shall apply:
in the case of geographic numbers, at a specific location; and
in the case of non-geographic numbers, at any location.
This Part does not apply to the porting of numbers between networks providing services at a fixed location and mobile networks.
The national regulatory authority has a responsibility to ensure that the information in this Annex is published, in accordance with Article 21. It is for the national regulatory authority to decide which information is to be published by the undertakings providing public communications networks and/or publicly available telephone services and which information is to be published by the national regulatory authority itself, so as to ensure that consumers are able to make informed choices.U.K.
i.e. names and head office addresses of undertakings providing public communications networks and/or publicly available telephone services.
Description of services offeredU.K.
For undertakings providing access to a public communications network
PARAMETER(Note 1) | DEFINITION | MEASUREMENT METHOD |
---|---|---|
Supply time for initial connection | ETSI EG 202 057 | ETSI EG 202 057 |
Fault rate per access line | ETSI EG 202 057 | ETSI EG 202 057 |
Fault repair time | ETSI EG 202 057 | ETSI EG 202 057 |
For undertakings providing a publicly available telephone service
Version number of ETSI EG 202 057-1 is 1.3.1 (July 2008) | ||
Call set up time (Note 2) | ETSI EG 202 057 | ETSI EG 202 057 |
Response times for directory enquiry services | ETSI EG 202 057 | ETSI EG 202 057 |
Proportion of coin and card operated public pay-telephones in working order | ETSI EG 202 057 | ETSI EG 202 057 |
Bill correctness complaints | ETSI EG 202 057 | ETSI EG 202 057 |
Unsuccessful call ratio (Note 2) | ETSI EG 202 057 | ETSI EG 202 057 |
Parameters should allow for performance to be analysed at a regional level (i.e. no less than level 2 in the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) established by Eurostat).
Member States may decide not to require up-to-date information concerning the performance for these two parameters to be kept if evidence is available to show that performance in these two areas is satisfactory.”
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