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ARTICLES

LEGAL RESOURSES

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    • Article 1310: Definitions

    For purposes of this Chapter:

    Authorized equipment means terminal or other equipment that has been approved for attachment to the public telecommunications transport network in accordance with a Party's conformity assessment procedures;

    Conformity assessment procedure means "conformity assessment procedure" as defined in Article 915 (TLCAN: Art. 915) (Standards-Related Measures-Definitions), and includes the procedures referred to in Annex 1310 (TLCAN: Anexo 1310);

    Enhanced or value-added services means those telecommunications services employing computer processing applications that:

  • Act on the format, content, code, protocol or similar aspects of a customer's transmitted information;

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  • Provide a customer with additional, different or restructured information; or

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  • Involve customer interaction with stored information;

    • Flat-rate pricing basis means pricing on the basis of a fixed charge per period of time regardless of the amount of use;

    Intracorporate communications means telecommunications through which an enterprise communicates:

  • Internally or with or among its subsidiaries, branches or affiliates, as defined by each Party, or

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  • On a non-commercial basis with other persons that are fundamental to the economic activity of the enterprise and that have a continuing contractual relationship with it,

    • But does not include telecommunications services provided to persons other than those described herein;

    Network termination point means the final demarcation of the public telecommunications transport network at the customer's premises;

    Private network means a telecommunications transport network that is used exclusively for intracorporate communications;

    Protocol means a set of rules and formats that govern the exchange of information between two peer entities for purposes of transferring signaling or data information;

    Public telecommunications transport network means public telecommunications infrastructure that permits telecommunications between defined network termination points;

    Public telecommunications transport networks or services means public telecommunications transport networks or public telecommunications transport services;

    Public telecommunications transport service means any telecommunications transport service required by a Party, explicitly or in effect, to be offered to the public generally, including telegraph, telephone, telex and data transmission, that typically involves the real-time transmission of customer-supplied information between two or more points without any end-to-end change in the form or content of the customer's information;

    Standards-related measure means a "standards-related measure" as defined in Article 915 (TLCAN: Art. 915);

    Telecommunications means the transmission and reception of signals by any electromagnetic means; and

    Terminal equipment means any digital or analog device capable of processing, receiving, switching, signaling or transmitting signals by electromagnetic means and that is connected by radio or wire to a public telecommunications transport network at a termination point.