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(e)
there is likely to be significant demand from
users or potential users for the
telecommunications services for which access
to the facility is required;
(f)
it is technically, economically and legally
feasible for the service provider that owns or
controls the essential facility to provide access
to it;
“Ryaluation Committee” means the Evaluation Committee
established under section 7;
“exemption order” means an order made by the
Telecommunications Commission under section
36(1);
“facility” means any apparatus, infrastructure, building,
including without limitation switching equipment
locations, mast sites, towers, poles, trunk lines, user
access lines, ducts and other underground facilities, or
other thing that is used or is capable of being used for
telecommunications or for any operation directly
connected with telecommunications;
“funding deficit”, in relation to the Telecommunications
Commission, means an insufficiency of cash (not
including reserves for provisions or other anticipated
expenses) available in the Telecommunications
Commission Special Fund such that the
Telecommunications Commission cannot meet its
liabilities as they fall due or otherwise perform its
functions and duties and exercise its powers
effectively under this Act;
“government authority” means any Ministry, department, other
state entity, provincial assembly or executive, local
council, state-owned enterprise or any other person or
body under its control,
“oross revenues” means revenues earned by a service provider
from the provision of telecommunications services
and access, after deducting amounts paid on an arms’
length basis to domestic and foreign service providers
for telecommunications services and access but before
any deduction for costs, taxation, accounting or other
purposes;