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(g) licence means any authorisation that a Party may require
of a person, in accordance with its laws and regulations, in
order for such a person to offer a telecommunications
network or service, including concessions, permits, or
1
registrations;

(h) major supplier means a supplier of public
telecommunications networks or services that has the
ability to materially affect the terms of participation, having
regard to price and supply, in the relevant market for public
telecommunications networks or services as a result of:

(i) control over essential facilities; or

(ii) use of its position in the market;

(i) non-discriminatory means treatment no less favourable
than that accorded to any other user of like public
telecommunications networks or services in like
circumstances;

(j) number portability means the ability of an end user of
public telecommunications services to retain the same
telephone numbers when switching between the same
category of suppliers of public telecommunications
services;

(k) physical co-location means access to space in order to
install, maintain, or repair equipment at premises owned or
controlled and used by a major supplier to supply public
telecommunications services;

(l) public telecommunications network means public
telecommunications infrastructure used to provide public
telecommunications services between and among defined
network termination points;

(m) public telecommunications service means any
telecommunications service required, explicitly or in effect,
by a Party to be offered to the public generally. Such
services may include telegraph, telephone, telex, and data
transmission typically involving the real-time transmission
of customer-supplied information between two or more

1 For Thailand, concessions are excluded from the definition of “licence” until 2022.

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