at ensuring everywhere in Ivory Coast the access of all the essential Telecommunications / ICT provisions of good quality and affordable price. It is ensured in accordance with the principle of Page 42 equality, continuity, adaptability and transparency. It includes the supply of urgent Telecommunications / ICT services, the supply of special services for disabled people or people having specific social needs the field of Telecommunications / ICT. The responsibility of the universal service falls to the State. The ARTCI, within the framework of its mission of regulation of the Telecommunications / ICT sector the market needs in terms of universal service, and made proposals to the Government. Article 154 : The universal service includes: - the supply on the overall national territory of telephone services, data transmission and high speed internet access; - the installation of public payphones and / or multimedia Telecommunications / ICT centers; - A free and priority routing of telephone calls and other urgent electronic communications from any fixed line, mobile terminal or other multimedia terminal; - an intelligence service; - a universal directory convening the coordinates of subscribers in electronic form. In order to guarantee the universal service, the ARTCI may, Telecommunications / ICT, force the powerful operators to propose the final user having lowincome to or specific social needs, tariffs, options or tariff formulas which differ from the normal conditions of business operation Page 43 The universal service also includes the development of the access to the aforementioned services including the establishment of Telecommunications / ICT networks. The Government periodically re-examines the range and content of the universal service.

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