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The CMT bases in 75 million the cost de the universal service de 2006
The Commission de the Market de Telecomunicaciones (CMT) has considered the net cost de the benefit de the universal service for year 2006 in 75,34 million Euros. Telephone she is the operator designated by the government to give this universal service, that includes the presence in nonprdeitable zones, the obligation to make telephone directories and to be in the telephone information service de the 11818, the specific installation de cabins and services for disabled users or with special needs.
The CMT must calculate the annual cost that supposes it operator to serve these. de them the intangible benefits are due to remain that it obtains Telephone to lend them, as the recognition de its mark, ubiquity or the publicity in the telephone boxes. Also the 30.79 million received Euros de transitory way in subsidy ERDF on the part de the European Union have been deduced to migrate analogical lines TRAC (rural Telephony de cellular access), the old Moviline, to other technologies that allow the functional access to Internet, like the GSM.
The net cost de the universal service in 2006 has been a 6% inferior to the one de the previous year thanks, to a large extent, to subsidy ERDF, since the net cost de the obligations nonprdeitable zones grew a 30.11% with respect to 2005. This substantial increase must to that Telephone it has been forced, in that process de migration de the analogical TRAC to a digital solution, to maintain two networks in some countryside.
The net cost de the universal service de 2006 will be supported by means de the National Bottom de the Universal Service. The CMT will initiate the procedure now to decide what operators will have to contribute to the Bottom and how they will distribute the cost to serve this.
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