2. Short title, extent and commencement i) These guidelines shall be referred to as: ‘Guidelines for Sharing of Fiber and Duct Infrastructure, 2012.’ ii) These guidelines shall be applicable to all licensed operators and service providers in the telecommunications sector who own or control fiber and/or duct installations and/or wish to get access and make use of such infrastructure. These guidelines refer to passive infrastructure sharing as defined below. iii) These guidelines shall come into force with effect from 01 April 2012 3. Definitions (a) Active infrastructure Sharing: Active infrastructure sharing is the sharing of electronic infrastructure and facilities. This may include sharing of transmission equipment, microwave radio equipment, spectrum, antennae, feeder cables, Radio Access Network (RAN), billing platforms, switching centers, routers, Base Station Equipment, Base Station Controller (BSC) /Radio Network Controller (RNC), optical Fiber/ wired access and backbone transmission network, database etc. (b) Authority: Means Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Agency (RURA) (c) Infrastructure provider: Means any telecommunication operator or service provider, who owns or is in control of a facility or infrastructure to which another operator or service provider desires to get into an agreement for the purposes of collocation or infrastructure sharing. (d) Infrastructure seeker: Means any telecommunication operator or service provider who desires to get into an agreement with another telecommunication operator or service provider, who owns or is in control of telecommunication’s infrastructure and facilities, for the purpose of collocation or infrastructure sharing. (e) Passive Infrastructure sharing: Passive infrastructure sharing is the sharing of non-electronic infrastructure and facility. This may include dark fiber, ducts (for the installation of optical fiber), sharing of physical sites, buildings, shelters, towers/masts, electric power supply and battery backup, grounding/earthing, air conditioning, security arrangement, poles, trenches. 2