The Universal Telecommunications Service Management Committee

The Comité de Gestion du Service Universel des Télécommunications (Universal Telecommunications Service Management Committee) is an inter-ministerial committee reporting to the Head of Government:

• The government authority in charge of the Interior ;
• The government authority in charge of land use planning ;
• The government authority in charge of Finance;
• The government authority in charge of Telecommunications;
• The government authority in charge of National Defense;
• The Chairman of the ANRT Management Committee;
• The ANRT's Director General.

Committee missions

The Universal Telecommunications Service Management Committee is responsible to :

• determine programs for the implementation of universal service throughout the country, in accordance with the priorities set;
• propose, for each call for tenders, the content of the "universal service in compliance with the provisions of the aforementioned law n°24-96;
• Examine programs proposed by operators of existing public telecommunications networks;
• Approve draft specifications for competitive bidding for programs not carried out by existing public telecoms network operators, as submitted by the ANRT.