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3. Access to and Use of Public Telecommunications Services 2
3.1 Each Party shall ensure that service suppliers of the other Party have access
to and use of any public telecommunications service, including leased circuits,
offered in its territory or across its borders, on reasonable and non-discriminatory
terms and conditions, including as set out in paragraphs 3.2 through 3.6.
3.2 Each Party shall ensure that service suppliers of the other Party are permitted
to:
(a) purchase or lease, and attach terminal or other equipment that
interfaces with a public telecommunications network;
(b) connect owned or leased circuits with public telecommunications
networks and services with circuits leased or owned by another person;
(c) perform switching, signalling, processing, and conversion functions;
(d) use operating protocols of their choice in the supply of any service; and
(e) provide services to individual or multiple end-users over any leased or
owned circuits to the extent that the scope and type of such services
are consistent with each Party’s domestic laws and regulations.
3.3 Each Party shall ensure that no condition is imposed on access to and use of
public telecommunications networks and services, other than as necessary to:
(a) safeguard public service responsibilities of suppliers of public
telecommunications transport networks and services, in particular their
ability to make their networks and services available to the public
generally; or
(b) protect the technical integrity of public telecommunications transport
networks or services.
3.4 If the criteria set out in paragraph 3.3 are satisfied, conditions for access to
and use of public telecommunications networks and services may include:
(a) a requirement to use specified technical interfaces, including interface
protocols, for interconnection with such networks and services;
(b) requirement where necessary, for the inter operability of services;
(c) type approval of terminal or other equipment which interfaces with the
networks and technical requirements relating to the attachment of such
equipment to such networks;
2 For greater certainty, neither this nor any other paragraphs prohibit a Party from requiring a service supplier to
obtain a licence to supply specific services.