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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-open-network-provision-voice-telephony-regulations-1998/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/telecommunications-open-network-provision-voice-telephony-regulations-1998/regulation-8.json",
  "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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Provision of network connections and access to telephone services",
  "text": "(1) 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 throughout the United Kingdom all reasonable requests for connection to a fixed public telephone system at a fixed location and access to fixed publicly available telephone services are met by at least one public operator and may, if necessary, designate one or more public operators to meet such requests.\n(2) The connection provided shall be capable of allowing users to make and receive national and international calls, supporting speech, and facsimile or data communications or both.",
  "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/8",
    "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."
}