Official Gazette-Issue 41- Addendum - 23/7/2002
4) The TRA may protect fair competition or impose conditions on Public
Telecommunications Services Providers through a number of measures,
including:
a) amendment of licensing conditions;
b) suspension of approval of any request to transfer control of a License
pursuant to provisions of Article 24 of the present Law; and
c) taking of decisions applicable to all Public Telecommunications Service
Providers.
5) The TRA may take any necessary measure to ensure competition including, but
not limited to, measures dealing with:
a) anti-competitive cross-subsidies;
b) use of information obtained from competitors that will result in unfair
competition; and
c) failure to supply other Service Providers, on a timely basis, with the
technical information relating to essential facilities and the commercial
information necessary to provide their services.
6) The TRA may take all possible measures to raise the level of competitiveness of
the Lebanese telecommunications market rather than imposing restrictions on
the behavior or activities of Public Telecommunications Service Providers with
Significant Market Power.
The TRA shall immediately reconsider such measures as soon as it becomes
clear that the evolution of market competition requires their revocation or
amendment.
7) In exercising the duties determined in this Article, the TRA shall take into
consideration the provisions of the present Law and the competition principles
adopted by countries with competitive telecommunications markets.
Article 31: Numbering Management
1) The TRA shall be responsible for managing the numbering needed for
Customers and Users of Public Telecommunications Services.
2) The TRA shall manage the numbering plan in a non-discriminatory manner,
making the details of the numbering plan available to the public. The TRA
shall ensure that Service Providers obtain numbers without any unjustified
delay; that changes in numbering do not cause unusual disturbance to
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