CompTel said it ’strongly supports’ efforts by U.S. Trade Represe...
CompTel said it “strongly supports” efforts by U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Robert Zoellick to seek inclusion of procompetitive telecom issues in Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) being negotiated with Chile and Singapore. “Agreements made in the Chile and Singapore FTAs…
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are likely to serve as important precedents for future bilateral and multilateral agreements still to be negotiated,” CompTel said in Nov. 29 letter to Zoellick. CompTel said telecom language should call for: (1) Interconnection, unbundled access to incumbents’ network elements and timely provisioning. (2) Cost-based pricing of incumbents’ leased circuits where there was no competition. (3) Colocation at cost-based rates. (4) Resale at wholesale rates. (5) Access to rights-of-way. (6) Enforcement by independent regulator. (7) Access to public telecom networks by U.S. service providers on nondiscriminatory basis.