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S.I. No. 463/1998 - Telecommunications (Amendment) (No. 10) Scheme, 1998

Type Statutory Instrument

Publication 1998-12-08

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S.I. No. 463 of 1998.

TELECOMMUNICATIONS (AMENDMENT) (NO. 10) SCHEME, 1998.

Bord Telecom Eireann plc, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by section 90 of the Postal Telecommunications Services Act, 1983 (No. 24 of 1983) hereby makes the following Scheme.

1.

This Scheme may be cited ad the Telecommunications (Amendment) (No. 10) Scheme, 1998.

2.

(1) The collective citation "the Telecommunications Schemes, 1994 to 1998" includes this Scheme.

(2) Article 4(a), Article 4 (b), Article 4(c) and Article 4(d) shall come into operation on 1st January 1999.

3.

The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937) applies to this Scheme.

4.

The Telecommunications Scheme, 1994 ( S.I. No. 177 of 1994 ) is hereby amended by:

(a) the substitution of the following Part 6(i) of Section VII of Part 6 of the First Schedule for Part 6(i) of Section VII of Part 6 of the First Schedule thereto:

Part 6. (i) Business Selections Discount

Volume discounts on Business Selections Calls are applied on a monthly basis to the combined total of Eligible Business Selections Calls as per Article 19(C), as follows:


LEVEL	1	2	3	4	5	6
Monthly Subscription	£10	£30	£75	£150	£250	£450
	PENCE PER SECOND	PENCE PER SECOND	PENCE PER SECOND	PENCE PER SECOND	PENCE PER SECOND	PENCE PER SECOND
Local
Daytime	0.0458	0.0450	0.0442	0.0434	0.0426	0.0426
Evening & Weekend	0.0091	0.0089	0.0088	0.0086	0.0085	0.0085
Minimum Charge	8.265	8.1225	7.98	7.8375	7.6950	7.6950
1891 Internet Access
Daytime	0.0183	0.0180	0.0177	0.0174	0.0170	0.0170
Evening & Weekend	0.0091	0.0089	0.0088	0.0086	0.0085	0.0085
Minimum Charge	8.265	8.1225	7.98	7.8375	7.6950	7.6950
National (1)
Daytime	0.1128	0.1045	0.0963	0.0174	0.0170	0.0170
Evening	0.0751	0.0696	0.0641	0.0622	0.0604	0.0604
Weekend	0.0158	0.0158	0.0158	0.0158	0.0158	0.0158
Minimum Charge (Daytime & Evening)	7.79	7.22	6.65	6.46	6.40	6.40
Minimum Charge (Weekend)	9.5	9.5	9.5	9.5	9.5	9.5
C Trunk
Daytime	0.3039	0.2991	0.2944	0.2896	0.2849	0.2849
Evening & Weekend	0.2026	0.1994	0.1963	0.1931	0.1899	0.1899
Minimum Charge	9.12	8.9775	8.835	8.6925	8.55	8.55

Note ^(1): National rate incorporates the former A (under 56Km), B(i/c) Trunk rates.


INTERNATIONAL	PENCE PER SECOND	PENCE PER SECOND	PENCE PER SECOND	PENCE PER SECOND	PENCE PER SECOND	PENCE PER SECOND
	Level 1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4	Level 5	Level 6
Band 1
Daytime	0.1831	0.1792	0.1753	0.1714	0.1674	0.1504
Evening	0.1678	0.1642	0.1606	0.1570	0.1534	0.1378
Weekend	0.1468	0.1437	0.1405	0.1374	0.1342	0.1206
Minimum Charge	6.65	6.5075	6.40	6.40	6.40	6.40
Band 1a
Daytime	0.2333	0.2283	0.2233	0.2183	0.2133	0.1917
Evening & Weekend	0.2100	0.2055	0.2010	0.1965	0.1920	0.1725
Minimum Charge	6.65	6.5075	6.40	6.40	6.40	6.40
Band 2
Daytime	0.3512	0.3388	0.3222	0.2933	0.2727	0.2148
Evening	0.3089	0.2980	0.2835	0.2580	0.2399	0.1890
Weekend	0.2691	0.2596	0.2469	0.2247	0.2089	0.1646
Minimum Charge	8.075	7.79	7.41	6.7450	6.40	6.40

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INTERNATIONAL	PENCE PER SECOND	PENCE PER SECOND	PENCE PER SECOND	PENCE PER SECOND	PENCE PER SECOND	PENCE PER SECOND
	Level 1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4	Level 5	Level 6
Band 3
Daytime	0.4448	0.4291	0.4082	0.3716	0.3454	0.2721
Evening & Weekend	0.3863	0.3726	0.3545	0.3226	0.2999	0.2363
Minimum Charge	8.075	7.79	7.41	6.7450	6.40	6.40
Band 4
Daytime	0.8500	0.8200	0.7800	0.7100	0.6600	0.5200
Evening & Weekend	0.7368	0.7108	0.6761	0.6155	0.5721	0.4508
Minimum Charge	8.075	7.79	7.41	6.7450	6.40	6.40
Band 5
Daytime	0.2994	0.2930	0.2862	0.2795	0.2635	0.2475
Evening	0.2374	0.2323	0.2270	0.2216	0.2089	0.1962
Weekend	0.1962	0.1920	0.1875	0.1831	0.1726	0.1621
Minimum Charge	7.125	6.973	6.8115	6.65	6.40	6.40
Band 6
Daytime	0.7064	0.6815	0.6482	0.5900	0.5485	0.4321
Evening	0.6352	0.6128	0.5829	0.5306	0.4932	0.3886
Weekend	0.5718	0.5516	0.5247	0.4776	0.4440	0.3498
Minimum Charge	8.075	7.79	7.41	6.7450	6.40	6.40
Band 7
Daytime	0.7908	0.7629	0.7257	0.6605	0.6140	0.4838
Evening	0.6318	0.6095	0.5797	0.5277	0.4905	0.3865
Weekend	0.4037	0.3895	0.3705	0.3372	0.3135	0.2470
Minimum Charge	8.075	7.79	7.41	6.7450	6.40	6.40
Band 8
Daytime & Evening	1.1469	1.1065	0.0525	0.9580	0.8906	0.7016
Weekend	1.0182	0.9822	0.9343	0.8505	0.7906	0.6229
Minimum Charge	8.075	7.79	7.41	6.7450	6.40	6.40
Band 9
At all times	1.1325	1.0925	1.0392	0.9460	0.8793	0.6928
Minimum Charge	8.075	7.79	7.41	6.7450	6.40	6.40
Band 10
At all times	2.0400	1.9680	1.8720	0.7040	0.5840	0.2480
Minimum Charge	8.075	7.79	7.41	6.7450	6.40	6.40

(b) the substitution of the following Part 7 of Section VII of Part 6 of the First Schedule for Part 7 of Section VII of Part 6 of the first Schedule thereto:

Part 7. Multi Site Discount

Multi Site Volume discounts are applied on a monthly basis to the combined total of Eligible Subscriber Dialled Calls from Nominated Telecommunications lines as per Article 19(D), as follows:


	LEVEL 1	LEVEL 2
MONTHLY NETWORK FEE	£750	£750
MONTHLY SITE FEE	£30	£60
	PENCE PER SECOND	PENCE PER SECOND
Local
Daytime	0.0426	0.0426
Evening & Weekend	0.0085	0.0085
Minimum Charge	7.6950	7.6950
1891 Internet Access
Daytime	0.0170	0.0170
Evening & Weekend	0.0085	0.0085
Minimum Charge	7.6950	7.6950
National ^(1)
Daytime	0.0935	0.0935
Evening	0.0622	0.0622
Weekend	0.0158	0.0158
Minimum Charge (Daytime & Evening)	6.46	6.46
Minimum Charge (Weekend)	9.5	9.5
C Trunk
Daytime	0.2849	0.2849
Evening & Weekend	0.1899	0.1899
Minimum Charge	8.55	8.55
INTERNATIONAL
Band 1
Daytime	0.1962	0.1504
Evening	0.1798	0.1378
Weekend	0.1573	0.1206
Minimum Charge	7.125	6.40
Band 1a
Daytime	0.2500	0.1917
Evening & Weekend	0.2250	0.1725
Minimum Charge	7.125	6.40
Band 2
Daytime	0.2892	0.2148
Evening	0.2544	0.1890
Weekend	0.2216	0.1646
Minimum Charge	6.65	6.40

Note (1) National rate incorporates the former A (under 56Km) and B (over 56Km).


INTERNATIONAL (Contd)	LEVEL 1	LEVEL 2
Band 3
Daytime	0.3663	0.2721
Evening & Weekend	0.3181	0.2363
Minimum Charge	6.65	6.40
Band 4
Daytime	0.7000	0.5200
Evening & Weekend	0.6068	0.4508
Minimum Charge	6.65	6.40
Band 5
Daytime	0.2994	0.2475
Evening	0.2374	0.1962
Weekend	0.1962	0.1621
Minimum Charge	7.125	6.40
Band 6
Daytime	0.5817	0.4321
Evening	0.5231	0.3886
Weekend	0.4709	0.3498
Minimum Charge	6.65	6.40
Band 7
Daytime	0.6512	0.4838
Evening	0.5203	0.3865
Weekend	0.3325	0.2470
Minimum Charge	6.65	6.40
Band 8
Daytime & Evening	0.9445	0.7016
Weekend	0.8385	0.6229
Minimum Charge	6.65	6.40
Band 9
At all times	0.9326	0.6928
Minimum Charge	6.65	6.40
Band 10
At all times	1.6800	1.2480
Minimum Charge	6.65	6.40

INTERNATIONAL BANDS


Band 1:	Great Britain, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.
Band 1a:	Calls to UK Non-Geographic Numbers (including UK Mobile Phones)
Band 2:	Andorra, Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands.
Band 3:	Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark (including Faroe Islands), Finland, Greece, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Norway, Poland, Portugal (including Azores and Madeira), San Marino, Spain (including Balearic Islands, Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla), Sweden, Switzerland and Vatican City.
Band 4:	Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, Estonia, Georgia, Gibraltar, Israel, Kazakhstan, Krgystan, Latvia, Lithuania, Libya, Malta, Moldova, Morocco, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Yugoslavia (Fed. Rep.).
Band 5:	Alaska, Canada, Hawaii, U.S.A.
Band 6:	Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Jamaica, Mexico, Montserrat, Nevis, Puerto Rico, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos, Virgin Islands (British), Virgin Islands (U.S.).
Band 7:	Australia (including Tasmania), Christmas Island, Hong Kong, Japan (including Ryukyu Island), Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore.
Band 8:	Argentina, Bahrain, China, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Syria, United Arab Emirates.
Band 9:	Indonesia, Korea (Rep. Of), Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand.
Band 10:	All other states

(c) the substitution of the following Part 3(a) of Section XI of Part 6 of the First Schedule for Part 3(a) of Section XI of Part 6 of the First Schedule thereto:


"{Article 63(19)(a)}	Part 3(a). SwitchLink Termination Rates
Subscription Charge	£175 per month

NATIONAL


	Call Set-up Charge	Pence Per Second
Local
Daytime	1.13p	0.0298
Evening & Weekend	0.75p	0.0200
A Trunk
Daytime	1.22p	0.0318
Evening	0.81p	0.0211
Weekend	0.81p	0.0211
B Trunk
Daytime	1.87p	0.0470
Evening	1.25p	0.0313
Weekend	1.25p	0.0313
B (i/c) Trunk
Daytime	1.87p	0.0470
Evening	1.25p	0.0313
Weekend	1.25p	0.0313
C Trunk
Daytime	—	0.2849
Evening & Weekend	—	0.1899
Minimum Charge	—	8.55
1850
At all times (minimum charge)	—	7.6950
1890
Daytime	—	0.0426
Evening & Weekend	—	0.0085
Minimum Charge	—	7.6950
1891 Internet Access
Daytime	—	0.0170
Evening & Weekend	—	0.0085
Minimum Charge	—	7.6950

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INTERNATIONAL	Pence per Second
Band 1
Daytime	0.1504
Evening	0.1378
Weekend	0.1206
Minimum Charge	6.40
Band 1a
Daytime	0.1917
Evening & Weekend	0.1725
Minimum Charge	6.40
Band 2
Daytime	0.2721
Evening	0.1890
Weekend	0.1646
Minimum Charge	6.40
Band 3
Daytime	0.2721
Evening & Weekend	0.2363
Minimum Charge	6.40
Band 4
Daytime	0.5200
Evening & Weekend	0.4508
Minimum Charge	6.40
Band 5
Daytime	0.2475
Evening	0.1962
Weekend	0.1621
Minimum Charge	6.40
Band 6
Daytime	0.4321
Evening	0.3886
Weekend	0.3498
Minimum Charge	6.40
Band 7
Daytime	0.4838
Evening	0.3865
Weekend	0.2470
Minimum Charge	6.40
Band 8
Daytime & Evening	0.7016
Weekend	0.6229
Minimum Charge	6.40
Band 9
At all times	0.6928
Minimum Charge	6.40
Band 10
At all times	1.2480
Minimum Charge	6.40

INTERNATIONAL BANDS


Band 1:	Great Britain, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.
Band 1a:	Calls to UK Non-Geographic Numbers (including UK Mobile Phones)
Band 2:	Andorra, Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands.
Band 3:	Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark (including Faroe Islands), Finland, Greece, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Norway, Poland, Portugal (including Azores and Madeira), San Marino, Spain (including Balearic Islands, Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla), Sweden, Switzerland and Vatican City.
Band 4:	Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, Estonia, Georgia, Gibraltar, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Latvia, Lithuania, Libya, Malta Moldova, Morocco, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Yugoslavia (Fed. Rep.).
Band 5:	Alaska, Canada, Hawaii, U.S.A.
Band 6.	Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Jamaica, Mexico, Montserrat, Nevis, Puerto Rico, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos, Virgin Islands (British), Virgin Islands (U.S.).
Band 7:	Australia (including Tasmania), Christmas Island, Hong Kong, Japan (Including Ryukyu Island), Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore.
Band 8:	Argentina, Bahrain, China, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Syria, United Arab Emirates.
Band 9:	Indonesia, Korea (Rep. Of), Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand.
Band 10:	All other states

(d) the substitution of the following Part 2 of Section XII of Part 6 of the First Schedule for Part 2 of Section XII of Part 6 of the First Schedule thereto:

Part 2 Charges for Subscriber Dialled Calls to the Internet Access Service

Per period or part of a period of time specified in the Table of this Part of this Schedule appropriate to the call.

TABLE (SUBSCRIBER DIALLED CALLS)


Description of Call	Daytime Rate (Seconds)	Evening Rate (Seconds)
Calls to telephone exchange line numbers prefixed by an 1891 code	450	900

Daytime Rate:

The daytime rate applies to calls made at or after 8 a.m. and before 6 p.m. on normal working days from Monday to Friday (inclusive).

Evening Rate:

The evening rate applies to calls made as follows:

(i) at or after 6 p.m and before 8 a.m. from Monday to Friday (inclusive);

(ii) all day on Saturday, Sunday and Public Holidays; and

(iii) on such other times as Bord Telecom Éireann plc may from time to time announce by advertisement in the national morning daily newspapers.

PRESENT when the Common Seal of BORD TELECOM EIREANN PLC was affixed thereto this 8 day of December 1998.


Martin Geoffrey Telecom Eireann St. Stephen's Green Dublin 2	Director
Martin Geoffrey Telecom Eireann St. Stephen's Green Dublin 2	Ronald Bolger
Director

EXPLANATORY NOTE

The purpose of this Scheme is to effect certain modifications to the Telecommunications Scheme, 1994.

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