Commercial Court Division
Gemtel at Yei in Southern Sudan. This is how he testified other international traffic
was routed.
Counsel for UTL referred me to Exhibit D.27 an ITU publication entitled “The Cost of
International telephone calls” which explains how cost of an International call is made
up; Exhibit D. 27 reads in part
“… The call flows over three distinct types of infrastructure the
International link, the International gateway and the local loop. The
cost of each of these components forms the basis for the price of an
international call …”
Counsel for UTL submitted that since UTL to Gemtel calls passed through the three
distinct types of infrastructure as named above, this was further evidence that this
was an International call.
Resolution of the issue.
The real issue for determination
The parties did not agree to the actual wording of this issue.
The Plaintiff’s as stated earlier framed the issue “whether telephone traffic originating
or terminating on code +256 477 xxx is local or International traffic?”
On the other hand, the Defendant’s framed the alternative issue “whether traffic
originating from the Plaintiff’s network and terminating on code +256 477 xxx
terminated on the Defendant’s network or terminated on the network of Gemtel in
Southern Sudan …?”
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