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ARTICLES

LEGAL RESOURSES

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    • Article 1303: Conditions for the Provision of Enhanced or Value-Added Services

    1. Each Party shall ensure that:

  • Any licensing, permit, registration or notification procedure that it adopts or maintains relating to the provision of enhanced or value-added services is transparent and non-discriminatory, and that applications filed thereunder are processed expeditiously; and

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  • Information required under such procedures is limited to that necessary to demonstrate that the applicant has the financial solvency to begin providing services or to assess conformity of the applicant's terminal or other equipment with the Party's applicable standards or technical regulations.

    • 2. No Party may require a person providing enhanced or value-added services to:

  • Provide those services to the public generally;

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  • Cost-justify its rates;

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  • File a tariff;

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  • Interconnect its networks with any particular customer or network; or

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  • Conform with any particular standard or technical regulation for interconnection other than for interconnection to a public telecommunications transport network.

    • 3. Notwithstanding paragraph 2(c), a Party may require the filing of a tariff by:

  • Such provider to remedy a practice of that provider that the Party has found in a particular case to be anticompetitive under its law; or

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  • A monopoly to which Article 1305 (TLCAN: Art. 1305) applies.