Price Floors Restrict Competition

The provision mandates minimum rates for international incoming traffic with penalties of "twice the difference" for operators charging less, directly contradicting its stated principle that tariffs "shall be determined by service providers in accordance with the principles of supply and demand." This price floor prevents competitive pricing strategies and market-based rate setting. Combined with the Authority retaining a percentage of collected penalties "for the Authority's own use," operators face a regulator financially incentivized to aggressively enforce penalties while navigating vague rate-setting standards published "from time to time" without clear calculation methodology. The cumulative daily penalties of "ten thousand penalty units for each day" for information submission delays create disproportionate financial risks that could escalate to millions of penalty units, fundamentally undermining competitive market operations.