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costs or such other cost standard as may be
established by the Regulator;
(f) using revenues or the allocation of costs from one
telecommunications service to cross-subsidize a
competitive telecommunications service with the
objective of lessening competition, except where
such cross subsidy is specifically approved by
order of the Regulator or by approval of tariffs
for relevant telecommunications services;
(g) failing to comply with the interconnection
obligations of a dominant service provider
specified in Part VII of this Act;
(h) performing any of the following actions, where such
actions have the effect of impeding or preventing
a competitor‟s entry into, or expansion in, a
market:
(i) deliberately reducing the margin of
profit available to a competitor that requires
wholesale telecommunications services from
the dominant service provider, by increasing
the
prices
for
the
wholesale
telecommunications services required by that
competitor, or decreasing the prices of the
retail telecommunications services in markets
where they compete, or both;
(ii) requiring or inducing a supplier to
refrain from selling to a competitor;
(iii) adopting technical specifications for
networks or systems to deliberately prevent
interoperability with a network or system of
a competitor;
(iv) failing to make available to other
service providers on a timely basis technical
specifications, information about essential
facilitie or other commercially relevant
formation which is required by such other
service
providers
to
provide
telecommunications services and which is
not available from other sources; and