1 / 10

Baltic IT&T 2006, April 5-7, 2005, Riga

Baltic IT&T 2006, April 5-7, 2005, Riga. Implementation of the Universal Service Policy in Latvia Irina Klevecka, Dr. Janis Lelis Riga Technical University Telecommunication Association of Latvia. Definition s.

joel-skinner
Download Presentation

Baltic IT&T 2006, April 5-7, 2005, Riga

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Baltic IT&T 2006, April 5-7, 2005, Riga Implementation of the Universal Service Policy in Latvia Irina Klevecka, Dr. Janis Lelis Riga Technical University Telecommunication Association of Latvia

  2. Definitions • Universal Service – a minimum level and quality of services, which should be available to all users, irrespectively of their geographical location, and at affordable price • Net Costs – the difference between the operational results (revenues and costs) that would be obtained with and without Universal service obligations • Universal Service Fund – an independently administered fund, the resources of which are collected with the purpose to compensate the net universal service costs

  3. Unsolved Questions In Latvia • Tariff rebalancing • Preliminary evaluation of the uneconomic users and regions • Determination of the acceptable level of universal service tariffs • Elimination of the deficit of access to electronic communications network • Definition of financing sources • Establishment of the Universal service Fund or other financing mechanism

  4. Evaluation of Uneconomic CustomersMonthly Income of Private Households Risk-of-Poverty Threshold 223.00 Euro Source: Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia, 2004

  5. Evaluation of Uneconomic RegionsPenetration Rate of Fixed Lines per 100Population, Lattelekom Source: Lattelekom, 2005

  6. Tariff Rebalancing

  7. Affordable Level of Universal Service Tariffs Source: Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia, 2004

  8. Affordable Level of Universal Service Tariffs • The residential monthly rental does not have to exceed 2% of the average monthly expenditure of households belonging to the 1st quintile group • Affordable level of tariffs for fixed telephony services has still not been defined Source: Lattelekom, 2004 Central Statistical Bureau of Latvia, 2004

  9. Determination of the Net Costs of USOFinancing of USO • Financing via Public Funds that means funding from general government budgets including other public financing sources such as state lotteries • Distribution of the initial net costs of USO between providers of electronic communications networks and services

  10. Thank you for attention! Irina Klevecka, klevecka@inbox.lv, Ph.: (+371) 6006970 Janis Lelis, jlelis@latnet.lv, Ph.: (+371) 9556340, 7227840 This work is partly supported by the European Social Fund

More Related