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Article 14: Dispute Settlement ANNEX 8B

Panels established pursuant to Chapter 19 (Dispute Settlement) for TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES
disputes on prudential issues and other financial matters shall have the
necessary expertise relevant to the specific financial service under
dispute. Article 1: Definitions

For the purposes of this Annex:

(a) cost-oriented means based on cost, and may include a
reasonable profit, and may involve different cost
methodologies for different facilities or services;

(b) end user means a subscriber to or a final consumer of
public telecommunications networks or services, including
a service supplier other than a supplier of public
telecommunications networks or services;

(c) essential facilities means facilities of a public
telecommunications network or service that:

(i) are exclusively or predominantly provided by a
single or limited number of suppliers; and

(ii) cannot feasibly be economically or technically
substituted in order to provide a service;

(d) interconnection means linking with suppliers providing
public telecommunications networks or services in order to
allow the users of one supplier to communicate with users
of another supplier and to access services provided by
another supplier;

(e) international mobile roaming service means a
commercial mobile service provided pursuant to a
commercial agreement between suppliers of public
telecommunications networks or services that enables end
users to use their home mobile handset or other device for
voice, data, or messaging services while outside the
territory in which the end user’s home public
telecommunications network is located;

(f) leased circuits means telecommunications facilities
between two or more designated points that are set aside
for the dedicated use of, or availability to, particular users;

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