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Rules & Regulations<\/span><\/h2>\n

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RULES<\/p>\n

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<\/span>Communications (Universal Service Fund) Rules 2019<\/strong>
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Provide for a framework for the design and implementation of the Universal Access and Service and the Communications Act 2016 and for the administration of the Universal Service Fund.<\/span>
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REGULATIONS<\/p>\n

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Provides for the minimum rate to be charged by electronic service providers for all incoming international voice communication traffic.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Provide for a framework for licensing of electronic communications and content broadcasting services particularly under the Converged Licensing Framework.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Prescribe the quality of service that a provider of electronic communication services is expected to meet and which a customer of those services expects to receive from the services provider.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Provide for detailed regulation of broadcasting content services. Provides for inter alia, obligations of broadcasters, types of broadcasting content services and coverage of elections..<\/span><\/p>\n

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Provides for a framework for the discharge by MACRA of its functions and the Communications Act and provides specifically for the establishment and utilization of an electronic monitoring system by the Authority.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Provide for the control, planning, administration. Management and assignment of conventional telephone numbers and short-codes. The Regulations also provide for rules for the assignment, transfer, porting and use of number in accordance with the National Numbering Plan.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Provide for the regulation of digital terrestrial television networks providing digital signal distribution services to broadcasting content service providers.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Provide a framework for the protection of consumers of communication services. The Regulations provide for obligations of communication services providers in relation to consumers, they also provide for rights and obligations of consumers.<\/span><\/p>\n

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