When national regulatory authorities deem it necessary to assess the affordability of tariffs, they should base themselves on objective criteria, such as the domestic tariffs of the originating universal service providers and the level of terminal rates.
Ko nacionalni regulativni organi menijo, da je treba oceniti dostopnost tarif, bi morali izhajati iz objektivnih meril, kot so domače tarife izvajalcev univerzalne storitve v izvorni državi ter raven terminalnih cen.