Regulation 22 Itemised billing, tone dialling and selective call barring—public operators
In order to ensure that users have access over fixed public telephone systems as early as possible to the facilities of:
tone dialling; and
itemised billing and selective call barring;
as facilities available on request, the Director may, where in his opinion it is necessary to ensure that these facilities are widely available, designate one or more public operators to provide these facilities to most telephone users before 31 December 1998 and to ensure that they are generally available by 31 December 2001.
The facilities of tone dialling and selective call barring are specified in Part 1 of Schedule I.
In exercising their functions under Part II and sections 47 to 49 of the Act, the Secretary of State and the Director shall ensure that where itemised bills are provided by public operators to their subscribers:
the itemised bill shall, subject to relevant data protection legislation, at no extra charge to the subscriber, contain at least such details as will allow the subscriber to verify and control charges incurred in using the system or service or both; but
the itemised bill shall not identify calls in respect of which no charges are made to the calling subscriber; and
where appropriate, additional levels of detail in the itemised bill may be offered to subscribers at reasonable tariffs or at no charge.
The Director may by direction set down the details which shall be contained in an itemised bill in order to satisfy the requirements of paragraph (3)(a) above.