UK To Review USO already

spongebob

The Universal Service Obligation (based on a standard EU directive) is supposed to provide for "Functional Internet Access" over Analogue phone lines, among other things such as the increasingly less relevant street payphone.

The Irish definition of "Functional" is famously 0k while the Uk Regulator (then known as Oftel) decided that 28.8k was more like it......all based on the exact same EU directive .

Oftels successor Ofcom (very hard to search the damn site) has already committed itself to reviewing this starting in the summer, announcement Here . Then again the review in the UK is being conducted because of what they percieve as "a broader determination of the significance and need for the USO in the digital age " .

As the last USO in this country reduced the figure from 2.4k to 0k I''d hate to imagine what would happen if Comreg decided to follow suit. The E-Tub of Europe is alive and unwell as always.

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Ryaner

How exactly does the functional data rate get inforced? Like is there any processes in place to enforce it.
Obviously over here 0k aint too hard to get but in the likes of the uk