Origins of “Universal Service”

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Abstract

“I think that the House is well aware what a universal service obligation means.” This was Edward Leigh, a minister in the Department of Trade and Industry and one of the leading proponents of the privatization of the Post Office. in John Major’s government, responding in 1993 to a Parliamentary question about whether or not the second daily delivery was part of the universal service obligation. His answer—consistent with the position taken in the following year’s Green Paper on the Future of the Post Office (1994, p. 21)—was that the second daily delivery was not part of the universal service, as it was not provided throughout the UK

Keywords

Postal Service Reserved Area Universal Service Affordable Prex British Telecommunication 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.OfcomLondonUK

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