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(a) a requirement to use specified technical interfaces,
including interface protocols, for connection with public
telecommunications networks and services;

(b) a requirement, where necessary, for the inter-operability of
public telecommunications networks and services and to
encourage the achievement of the goals set out in Article
17 (Relation to International Organisations);

(c) type approval of terminal or other equipment which
interfaces with public telecommunications networks and
technical requirements relating to the attachment of such
equipment to public telecommunications networks;

(d) a restriction on connection of leased or owned circuits with
public telecommunications networks or services or with
circuits leased or owned by other service suppliers; or

(e) a requirement for notification and licensing.

Article 5: Number Portability
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Each Party shall ensure that a supplier of public telecommunications
services in its territory provides number portability for mobile services, to
the extent technically and economically feasible, on a timely basis, and
on terms and conditions that are reasonable and non-discriminatory.

Article 6: Competitive Safeguards

1. Each Party shall adopt or maintain appropriate measures for the
purpose of preventing suppliers who, alone or together, are a
major supplier from engaging in or continuing anti-competitive
practices.

2. The anti-competitive practices referred to in paragraph 1 shall
include, in particular:

(a) engaging in anti-competitive cross-subsidisation;

(b) using information obtained from competitors with anti-
competitive results; and

4 This Article shall not apply to Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, and Myanmar.

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