{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-open-network-provision-voice-telephony-regulations-1998/regulation-27",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/1580",
  "legislation_title": "The Telecommunications (Open Network Provision) (Voice Telephony) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-open-network-provision-voice-telephony-regulations-1998",
  "path": "regulation/27",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Tariff principles—public operators",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulation 7(1)(a) above, and except in relation to any specific geographical area where the condition set out in paragraph (2) below is satisfied, the Secretary of State and the Director, in exercising their functions under Part II and sections 47 to 49 of the Act, shall ensure that a public operator providing voice telephony services which is an operator having significant market power complies with the following:\n(a) tariffs for use of its fixed public telephone system and fixed publicly available telephone services follow the basic principles of cost orientation set out in Schedule IV;\n(b) subject to paragraph 2 of Part II of Schedule 3 to the Interconnection Regulations, tariffs for access to and use of its fixed public telephone system are independent of the type of application which the subscribers implement, except to the extent that they require different services or facilities;\n(c) tariffs for facilities additional to the provision of connection to its fixed public telephone system and fixed public telephone services are sufficiently unbundled, so that the subscriber is not required to pay for facilities which are not necessary for the service requested; and\n(d) tariff changes are implemented only after an appropriate public notice period determined by the Director.\n(2) Subject to regulation 7(1)(a) above, paragraphs (1)(a) to (d) shall not apply in a specific geographical area in respect of which the Director has made a direction that he is satisfied that there is effective competition in the fixed publicly available telephone services market.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/1580/regulation/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:26:31.570720+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}