Regulations Governing Universal Service of Telecommunications Enterprises Article 18

The competent authority (NCC) shall, no later than December 1 of the year prior to the implementation year, set forth the universal service providers and the implementation plans.Every universal service provider shall provide universal service in accordance with the implementation plan in the preceding paragraph in the implementation year. However, in case of unpredicted events such as a necessary change of plan, the universal service provider shall apply for change of implementation plan with the competent authority (NCC) and carry out the change after approval.In the case where the implementation plan of the provider of the Voice-based Telecommunications Universal Service stated in paragraph 1 includes provision of the facilities for Telecommunications Universal Service on Data Transmission, the service provider shall provide Telecommunications Universal Service on Data Transmission in uneconomic areas in accordance with functions of the facilities; and shall not apply for extra subsidy of Telecommunications Universal Service on Data Transmission in uneconomic areas based on the facilities.