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(2)
periodic rental charges for use of facilities equipment and resources including Interconnect
Capacity; and variable charges for telecommunications services and supplementary
services.
(4) All charges for interconnection shall be transparent and sufficiently unbundled so that the
Interconnecting Operator only pays charges related to the relevant interconnection.
(5) Charges shall be negotiated in accordance with the following principles
(a)
charges shall be independently verifiable;
(b)
fairness;
(c)
charges shall be properly derived from underlying costs;
(d)
charges shall be built up from the cost of separately identifiable network elements; and
(e)
charges shall not be designed to facilitate, crosssubsidies by an Operator of its network or
other services, specifically
(i)
Public Operators Major Operators of Essential services shall provide those
Essential services for interconnection to any requesting Public Operator at the
Long Run Incremental cost (LRIC) of those Essential services;
(ii)
LRIC shall be calculated on the basis of relevant forward looking economic costs
calculated for an effluent telecommunications service provider and including a cost
of capital. LRIC shall be calculated in accordance with the Rules and the
Guidelines of the Authority;
(iii)
Service Providers Major Operators of Essential services shall provide those
Essential services for interconnection to Service Providers at no more than the
Major Operators best retail prices less avoidable costs provided that this price is
not less than the LRIC of the Major Operator; and
(iv)
Major Operators may charge Service Providers no more than the fully allocated
costs of the Major Operator for establishing a P01
(6) Charges for interconnection shall not exceed retail charges for the provision of the equivalent services
or facilities to be provided by that interconnection
(7)An interconnection agreement shall provide for a determination of the Authority to operate retrospectively
if the Authority so determines
(8) An interconnecting operator is free to acquire services from an interconnect provider at any retail price
offered by the interconnect provider with cut prejudice to any rights to acquire the same or similar services
under an interconnection agreement
Interconnection procedures
125. (1) Where an interconnecting operator requests a new form of interconnection, it shall request that
new form of interconnection in writing and provide the interconnect provider with reasonable information in
relation to
(a)
the form of interconnection;
(b)
the approximate date the interconnection is required; and
(c)
an estimate of the capacity required
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