Additional Obligations Relating to Conduct of Major Suppliers of Public

Treatment by Major Suppliers
1. Subject to Annex 13.4(1), each Party shall ensure that major suppliers in its territory
accord suppliers of public telecommunications services of the other Party non-discriminatory
treatment regarding:
(a) the availability, provisioning, rates, or quality of like public
telecommunications services; and
(b) the availability of technical interfaces necessary for interconnection.
Competitive Safeguards
2. (a) Each Party shall maintain appropriate measures for the purpose of preventing
suppliers who, alone or together, are a major supplier in its territory from
engaging in or continuing anti-competitive practices.
(b) For purposes of subparagraph (a), examples of anti-competitive practices
include:
(i) engaging in anti-competitive cross-subsidization;
(ii) using information obtained from competitors with anti-competitive
results; and
(iii) not making available, on a timely basis, to suppliers of public
telecommunications services, technical information about essential
facilities and commercially relevant information which are necessary
for them to provide public telecommunications services.