Section 13
Public telecommunications infrastructure
1. The establishment, management and operation of each and every public
telecommunications infrastructure is the exclusive competency of the universal service
operator, being governed by a concession contract to be entered into with the State.
2. Excepted from the provision of the preceding subsection are:
(a) Infrastructure used for private telecommunications, as defined in subsection 3.4;
(b) Infrastructure exclusively used for emitting, receiving and transmitting broadcasting
services, such services being deemed to be public telecommunications in which
communication is done in just one way to various reception points and without preset addressing.
3. The universal service operator shall make available, under the terms as established by
law and in fully equal conditions, hired circuits, namely circuits required for providing
radio and television broadcasting services, where the provision of those services involves
the use of the basic network or of public telecommunications infrastructure, as well as
circuits meant to establish private telecommunications.
4. The expropriation of immovable property, as well as the establishment of administrative
servitudes indispensable to the establishment, protection and preservation of public
telecommunications infrastructure, shall be permitted, under the terms established by law.
5. The universal service operator shall be exempt from paying fees or any other charges for
the implantation of telecommunications infrastructure or for the passage of the different
parts of the installation or equipment required for operating the public telecommunications
service.
Section 14
Interconnection
1. Interconnection shall be ensured through the basic telecommunications network and
public telecommunications infrastructure.
2. Interconnection agreements between the universal service operator and operators or
providers of telecommunications services shall not be subject to any rules and shall be
entered into in accordance with the principles of transparency and non-discrimination.
3. Interconnection quality shall be equal to that provided by the universal service operator
to itself, to companies where it holds stakes or to any entity to which interconnection is
ensured.