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4.3 Each Party shall endeavour to ensure that suppliers of public<br />
telecommunications services in its territory provide mobile number portability by the<br />
relevant authority to the extent technically feasible, on timely basis, and on<br />
reasonable terms and conditions.<br />
4.4 Each Party shall ensure that the relevant authority is authorized to ensure or<br />
that the suppliers of a particular public telecommunications service in its territory<br />
provide, as the case may be, dialling parity to suppliers of the same public<br />
telecommunications service of the other Party, and require the suppliers of public<br />
telecommunications service to offer or afford as the case may be suppliers of public<br />
telecommunications services of the other Party non-discriminatory access to<br />
telephone numbers, directory assistance, and operator services with no<br />
unreasonable dialling delays.<br />
5. Additional Obligations Relating to Major Suppliers of Public<br />
Telecommunications Services<br />
5.1 Each Party shall ensure that a major supplier in its territory accords suppliers<br />
of public telecommunications services of the other Party treatment no less<br />
favourable than such major supplier accords to its subsidiaries, its affiliates, or nonaffiliated<br />
service suppliers regarding:<br />
(a) the availability, provisioning, rates, or quality of like public<br />
telecommunications services; and<br />
(b) the availability of technical interfaces necessary for interconnection.<br />
5.2 (a) Each Party shall maintain appropriate measures for the purpose of<br />
preventing suppliers that, alone or together, are a major supplier in its<br />
territory from engaging in or continuing anti-competitive practices.<br />
(b) The anti-competitive practices referred to in subparagraph (a) include<br />
in particular:<br />
(i) using information obtained from competitors with anticompetitive<br />
results; and<br />
(ii) not making available, on a timely basis, to suppliers of public<br />
telecommunications services, technical information about<br />
essential facilities and commercially relevant information that are<br />
necessary for them to provide services.<br />
5.3 Each Party shall endeavour to ensure that a major supplier in its territory:<br />
(a) offers for resale, at reasonable rates, 3<br />
to suppliers of public<br />
telecommunications services of the other Party; and<br />
3 For purposes of subparagraph (a), wholesale rates set pursuant to a Party’s laws and regulations shall be<br />
considered reasonable.