(1) Subject to subsection (5), a telecommunications provider who operates a public telecommunications network shall not refuse, obstruct, or in any way impede another telecommunications provider from making an interconnection with his or her telecommunications network.
(2) A telecommunications provider who wishes to interconnect with the telecommunications network of another telecommunications provider shall make a request to that other telecommunications provider in writing.
(3) A telecommunications provider to whom a request for interconnection is made, shall, in writing, respond to the request within a period of 4 weeks from the date of the request.
(4) A telecommunications provider in granting a request under subsection (3) shall agree, with the person making the request, the date the interconnection shall be effected.
(5) A telecommunications provider to whom a request for interconnection is made may in his or her response refuse that request in writing on reasonable technical grounds only.
(6) A telecommunications provider on receipt of a refusal for interconnection may refer that refusal to the Commission for review and possible dispute resolution.
(7) A telecommunications provider providing an interconnection service in accordance with this section shall impose reasonable cost based rates, and such other reasonable terms and conditions as the Commission may, on the recommendation of ECTEL, determine.
(8) Any interconnection service provided by a telecommunications provider under the provisions of subsection (7) above shall be on terms which are not less favourable than—
(a) those of the provider of the interconnection service;
(b) the services of non-affiliated suppliers; or
(c) the services of the subsidiaries or affiliates of the provider of the interconnection service.
(9) A telecommunications provider shall not, in respect to any rates charged for interconnection services provided to another telecommunications provider, vary the rates on the basis of the type of customers to be served, or on the type of services that the telecommunications provider requesting the interconnection services intends to provide.