PART THREE GENERAL PRINCIPLES 6. General Infrastructure Sharing and Collocation Principles All agreements for Access Services shall be consistent with the following principles: 1) Transparency: a) The Authority’s processes in reaching decisions related to infrastructure sharing and collocation service matters shall be open and transparent. b) All Access Providers shall publish a Reference Infrastructure Sharing Offer (“RISO”) approved by the Authority and make it available to an Access Seeker free of charge. c) The Authority shall publish an approved RISO on its website. 2) Non-discrimination: The non-discrimination principle requires that the terms and conditions for the provision of Access Services, shall be comparable to how an Access Provider supplies those same Access Services to itself, or to any other operator based on similar commercial parameters. 3) Cost Orientation: Charges for Access Services shall be justifiable and reasonable and shall be costbased. PART FOUR COLLOCATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE SHARING PROCEDURES 7. Rights and Obligations 1) All Access Seekers have the right to request Access Services from any Access Provider and the parties shall negotiate the terms of an agreement for such services in good faith. 2) An Access Provider that the Authority has determined to have a Significant Market Power (SMP) in a relevant market for Access Services and who receives a request for Collocation, from an Access Seeker, shall accommodate such request to the extent that it is technically feasible, and shall negotiate in good faith, reasonable terms and conditions for such services. 3) For all requests other than Collocation as described in Sub-Article (2) of this Article, An Access Provider has the right to decline to provide the requested Access Services on the following reasonable grounds of: a) Insufficient capacity or space; b) Illegality; c) Safety, reliability, and incompatibility of facilities; d) Integrity and security of the telecommunications network or services; or, e) Not economically or technically feasible. 4

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