Section 29 in International Telecommunication Cable Landing Stations Access Facilitation Charges and Co-location Charges Regulations, 2012
29. In view of the above and taking into account: (a) the comments of majority of stakeholders, (b) international best practices, (c) similar 'utilisation factor' used in other network designs, (d) to be fair to all the stakeholders, (e) to have a level playing field among the OCLSs and access seekers (f) to ensure OCLSs get fair return on their investment while the seekers and end consumers do not end up paying excessively; the Authority, decides that the "utilisation factor" of 70% is appropriate and reasonable for calculating access facilitation charge and annual O&M charges for capacity provided on IRU basis for the cost recovery.
C. Conversion factor for AFC/ Annual O&M charges for capacity provided on IRU basis
