Electronic and Postal Communications (Interconnection)
G.N. No. 425 (contd)
“competitive market” means a market that ensures that a
licensee achieves normal profit and normal return on
investment;
“contestable market” means a market that ensures a licensee
charges prices that reflect the cost of supply in a market
that can be entered by an entrant into the market using
modern equivalent technology;
“dominant licensee” means a licensee who has been determined
by the Authority to have more than thirty five percent of
the electronic communication or postal
services
market;
“electronic communications services” means any transmission
of information by wire, radio waves, optical media or
other electromagnetic systems, between or among
points of the user’s choice;
“interconnection” means a physical or logical linking of one
public electronic communications network to another
for the purposes of allowing the persons using either of
them to be able to communicate with users of theother
network; or, to make use of services provided by means
of the other network;
“interconnection costs” means costs incurred for the provision
of interconnection;
“interconnection charges” means the price charged by a network
service licensee to another network service licensee for
the purposes of terminating traffic into a network;
“interconnection seeker” means a network services licensee
seeking to be connected to another network service
licensee for the purposes of termination of traffic;
“interconnection provider” means any network services licensee
who is requested to provide interconnection or any
licensee who is currently providing interconnection;
“network service licensee” means an entity licensed by the
Authority to provide electronic communications
network services;
“point of interconnection” means a physical or logical point
where the system of one network service licensee is
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