| NOTAS: | "Access to the postal network and services and to the elements of infrastructure is an important regulatory tool to promote competition by ensuring a level playing field. The importance arises from the fact that an established incumbent postal operator or designated universal service provider with a network that is difficult to replicate - for legal, legacy, physical or financial reasons - might have an advantage over other providers, as well as an incentive to deny access to its network and infrastructure elements. This would reduce competition in the postal market by preventing postal operators from entering or remaining in business.
This report provides information on how NRAs apply the principles and methods of allocation of costs to access services. These are a key tool when access is prescribed in the endeavor to develop and promote competition and therefore it is important for NRAs to have an in-depth understanding of the costs of access services." |
