Telecommunication (Class Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 1999

No. S 236

Telecommunication Authority of Singapore Act

(Chapter 323)

Telecommunication (Class Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 1999

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 131 of the Telecommunication Authority of Singapore Act, the Telecommunication Authority of Singapore, with the approval of the Minister for Communications, hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Telecommunication (Class Licences) (Amendment) Regulations 1999 and shall come into operation on 1st June 1999.

Amendment of regulation 2

2. Regulation 2 of the Telecommunication (Class Licences) Regulations (Rg 10) (referred to in these Regulations as the principal Regulations) is amended by deleting the words "or Fourth Schedule" in the definition of "class licence" and substituting the words ", Fourth or Fifth Schedule".

Amendment of regulation 5

3. Regulation 5 of the principal Regulations is amended by inserting, immediately after the word "fee", the words ", if any,".

Amendment of Fourth Schedule

4. The Fourth Schedule to the principal Regulations is amended —

(a)	by deleting the words "a public telecommunication licensee" in the 3rd line of Part I and substituting the words "a licensee awarded a Public Basic Telecommunication Services (PBTS) licence, Public Cellular Mobile Telephone Services (PCMTS) licence or Public Radio Paging Services (PRPS) licence";
(b)	by inserting, immediately after the word "services" in paragraph 1.1 of Part I, the words ", other than public chain payphone services";
(c)	by deleting the words "not market himself as a public telecommunication licensee but" in paragraph 1.3 of Part II and substituting the words "market himself";
(d)	by deleting the words "the public telecommunication licensee" in paragraph 2.1 of Part II and substituting the words "any of the PBTS, PCMTS or PRPS licensees"; and
(e)	by deleting the words "a public telecommunication licensee" in paragraph 5 of Part II and substituting the words "any PBTS, PCMTS or PRPS licensee".

New Fifth Schedule

5. The principal Regulations are amended by inserting, immediately after the Fourth Schedule, the following Schedule:

“FIFTH SCHEDULE

Regulation 2

Part I

Class Licence for Public Chain Payphone Services

Public Chain Payphone Services are the provision of payphone services in multiple customer premises through the resale of public switched telephone services.

Part II

Conditions

1.1. The licensee shall not engage in the construction or building of any telecommunication system.

1.2. Where the licensee subscribes to any domestic or international leased circuit, he shall not, except with the prior approval of the Authority, provide his users with any direct or indirect connection to that leased circuit.

1.3. The licensee shall market himself as a reseller of telecommunication services.

2.1. The licensee shall not charge his users any usage rate higher than the published rates of any of the public basic telecommunication services (PBTS) licensees through which he provides his services.

2.2. Notwithstanding paragraph 2.1, the licensee may charge a maximum set-up charge of 30 cents for every successful international direct dialling (IDD) call and 10 cents for every successful subscriber trunk dialling (STD) call.

3. The licensee shall provide his services without discrimination to every person upon request and any scheme offered by the licensee shall be made available to all users on similar terms and conditions.

4. The licensee shall immediately notify the Authority if the licensee ceases to provide any of his services.

5. The licensee shall, without undue delay, comply with any policies and directions which the Authority may, from time to time, impose.

6. The licensee shall provide any information or document as the Authority may, from time to time, require in the exercise of its functions, powers or duties.

7. The licensee shall allow any authorised officer of the Authority to enter his premises and access his equipment and telecommunication systems for the purpose of inspecting any such equipment and telecommunication system.

8. The licensee shall comply with the coverage obligations as may, from time to time, be set by the Authority for public chain payphone operations.

9. The licensee shall comply with such quality of service requirements as may, from time to time, be determined by the Authority.

10. The licensee shall comply with such equal access requirements as may, from time to time, be determined by the Authority.

11. The licensee shall resell only the services of a PBTS licensee and not those of any other licensee.

12. The licensee shall notify the Authority of any change or inaccuracy in his particulars and any other information submitted to the Authority for registration.

13. The Authority may cancel or suspend this licence, if it is satisfied that the licensee is contravening, or has contravened and is likely again to contravene, any of these conditions or the provisions of the Telecommunication Authority of Singapore Act (Cap. 323) or any regulations made thereunder.”.

[G.N. No. S 261/97]

Made this 24th day of May 1999.

CHIANG CHIE FOO

Chairman,
Telecommunication Authority of Singapore.

[AG/LEG/SL/323/97/1 Vol. 1]

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