(1) Every operator of public communications service shall having regard to the service authorized by its licence, offer and provide uniform, non-preferential service on a first-come, first-served basis to all persons within its geographical market area who request the service and who meet any predetermined conditions approved by the Authority for the provision of the service.

(2) It is not a violation of the principle of non-discrimination for an operator in deciding whether to provide the service to a person

(a) to consider the ability of a prospective customer to pay for the service;

(b) to make other reasonable classifications of customers such as business and residential customers and to provide the service on the basis of the classification, except that any classification applied by an operator shall

(i) be approved by the Authority; and

(ii) Be such that the service provided to persons within a given class is on a non-preferential, first-come-first-served basis.