Paragraph 4

United Kingdom

(1)

Public pay telephones F1or other public voice telephony access points shall be provided to meet the reasonable needs of end-users in terms of geographical coverage, the number of telephones F2or other access points and the quality of public electronic communication services.

(2)

It shall be possible to make emergency calls from public pay telephones using the single European emergency call number “112” and the UK emergency call number “999”, free of charge and without the use of coins or cards.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in Sch. para. 4(1) inserted (26.5.2011) by The Electronic Communications (Universal Service) (Amendment) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1209), arts. 1(1), 5(c)(i)
F2: Words in Sch. para. 4(1) inserted (26.5.2011) by The Electronic Communications (Universal Service) (Amendment) Order 2011 (S.I. 2011/1209), arts. 1(1), 5(c)(ii)