Carrier selection
53. (1)The Authority shall ensure that carrier
selection is introduced in the call-by-call form, as a
minimum, in order to establish effective
competition and allow consumers to choose their
local-loop operator freely and have access to the
services of an alternative operator.
(2) The selection possibility shall be offered by all
operators having significant market power who
must be invited to undertake the technical changes
that are necessary to adapt their automatic
exchanges so as to be able to offer, in the initial
phase, call-by-call selection service which shall be
included in the reference interconnect offer.
(3) The Authority shall assign prefixes to operators
who fall within the category of carriers and take
decisions on
(a) type of carrier selection;
(b) operators eligible to act as carriers;
(c) operators subject to the obligation to offer
carrier selection;
(d) types of calls carried;
(e) problems involved in carrier selection such
as invoicing and calling line identification;
and
(f) unfair competition
"slamming".
Infrastructure
sharing
issues,
such
as,
54. (1) The Authority shall encourage infrastructure
sharing and ensure that sharing between the ope
rators of public communication networks takes
place under conditions of fairness, non
discrimination and equality of access.
(2) The Authority, in consultation with other stake
holders, shall elaborate a procedure for handling
relations between the operators of public networks
in the matter of the conditions and the sharing of
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