Key words:

Postal services, telecommunication services, postal item, Czech Telecommunication Office, distribution of telephone services

 Chapter objectives:

• acquiring knowledge about postal services,
• understanding the meaning of the term postal item and the Czech Telecommunication Office,
• getting acquainted with the term telecommunication services,
• acquiring knowledge about the distribution of telephone services.

 Time required to study the chapter: 8 hours

 Interpretation:

Act No. 29/2000 Coll., On postal services

In the Czech Republic, this Act regulates, in accordance with European Community laws, the conditions for the provision and operation of postal services, the rights and obligations arising from the provision and operation of postal services as well as the special rights and special obligations of those postal operators who are required to provide basic services.

The postal service is an activity performed on the basis of a postal contract and under the conditions stipulated by this Act, the purpose of which is to deliver a postal item or the specific amount of money.

Basic terms

a.) postal item is a thing that has been taken by the operator as a single entity to provide postal services,

b.) postal voucher is a postal service, the purpose of which is to deliver a specific amount of money,

c) operator is the person providing the postal services,

d) consignor is the person who is identified as a consignor on a postal item or in a postal voucher; if the consignor is not identified, he is represented by the person who concluded the postal contract,  

e) addressee is the person who is identified by the sender on the postal item or the postal voucher as being the addressee,     

f) recipient (consignee) is the addressee or another person whom, according to the postal contract, should or may be issued a postal item or paid a specific amount of money.
 

Terms and conditions for the postal services operation :

(1) The condition for the operation of postal services is to get a trade license under Act No. 455/1991 Coll., On Trades Licensing, as amended.              
(2) The condition for the postal service operation, the purpose of which is to deliver a document, is furthermore a postal license or a special postal license under this Act.    
 

State administration in the field of postal services:

The Czech Telecommunications Office performs a state administration in the field of electronic communications and postal services, including market regulation and setting conditions for doing business. The Office also ensures the protection of certain services in the field of television broadcasting and information society services.
 

Telecommunication services:

Telecommunication service can be understood as a service for the transmission of information by telecommunication networks for payment to third parties.
 

1. Telephone services:

   Division 1:

      A. Standard telephone services (caller-paid)
      B. Telephone services paid by the called

   Division 2:

      A. Shared-cost telephone services

           Blue line 844, White line 840/841.

      B. Telephone services with a special tariff

           Yellow line 900, Rainbow line 906, Line 909.

2. Broadband internet access in the Czech Republic

3. Data transmission services

 

 Study materials:

Basic literature:

DOLEŽELOVÁ, H., HALÁSEK, D. Služby v obecném hospodářském zájmu v EU - Komparace České republiky a Německa. Department of Public Economics Faculty of Economics VSB-Technical University Ostrava, Czech Republic. 2011. ISBN 978-80-248-2371-3.

HALÁSEK, Dušan. Ekonomika veřejného sektoru. 1. ed. VSB-Technical University Ostrava, Czech Republic. 2008. IV, 230 p. ISBN 9788024818542.

Recommended study materials:

BRABEC, Z. Telekomunikační služby - study materials. Czech Technical University in Prague. Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Republic. 2011.

Questions and tasks

 1.   In the Czech Republic, the conditions for the provision and operation of postal services, the rights and obligations arising from the provision and operation of postal services as well as the special rights and special obligations of those postal operators who are required to provide basic services are regulated by:
Act No. 39/2000 Coll., On postal services
Act No. 29/2000 Coll., On providing the postal services
Act No. 29/2000 Coll., On postal services

2.   For the purposes of postal services, postal item shall be understood as:
a postal service the purpose of which is to provide the specific amount of money 
written communication on a letter intended to a particular person
a thing that has been taken by the operator as a single entity to provide postal services

3.    The condition of the postal services operation in the Czech Republic is:
license under Act No. 29/2000 Coll., On postal services
trade license under Act No. 455/1991 Coll., On trade licensing
authorization under the Directive on Services in the Internal Market (2006/123/EC)

4.  The state administration in the field of electronic communications and postal services in the Czech Republic is performed by:
Czech Telecommunication Office 
Ministry of Informatics of the Czech Republic
Czech Post Office

    5.  The division of telephone services do not include:
            Shared-cost telephone services 
            Penetration telephone services
            Telephone services with a special tariff

  

Key to solve the questions:

1.      C

2.      C

3.      B

4.      A

       5.    B