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in the event of undue billing or other disputes or claims related to bills or
service provision.
3) The TRA may monitor and regulate the rates and tariffs of all public
Telecommunications Services by any means it deems appropriate, such as by
issuing regulations, including conditions in the License document, or
conducting an accounting of operational costs and revenues. In the interest of
consumer protection, the TRA may impose prices and tariffs on Service
Providers if it becomes aware of monopoly pricing or of a situation that
enables monopoly pricing.
4) All Public Telecommunications Services Providers shall offer their services
pursuant to the prices and tariffs notified to the TRA. Such prices, tariffs or
other terms of service shall not be changed without prior notification to the
TRA and provided that the TRA does not object to such changes in a motivated
decision issued within 60 days.
The silence of the TRA, by the end of the period mentioned in the previous
paragraph, is deemed an implicit approval of the new prices and tariffs.
Article 29: Interconnection
1) All Service Providers with Significant Market Power shall establish
Interconnection with other Service Providers for the transmission and receipt
of data, provide the necessary facilities and arrangements for that purpose, and
establish and apportion the charges thereof, pursuant to the conditions set by
the TRA.
2) Interconnection among Service Providers shall be established by agreement
within a maximum period specified by the TRA. In the event that Public
Telecommunications Services Providers fail to agree on terms of
Interconnection within the maximum period specified by the TRA, the TRA
may, at its own initiative, impose Interconnection terms pursuant to its own
rules and requirements.
The TRA shall publish, at the expense of the concerned parties, a summary of
the basic terms of the Interconnection agreements in the Official Gazette and in
two local newspapers.
3) The TRA may approve or impose amendment to the provisions relating to
Interconnection between Public Telecommunications Services Providers
authorized by foreign countries in accordance with the international accounting
rate framework, including the accounting rates and settlement arrangements
agreed upon by the concerned parties before the agreement becomes effective.
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