Protection of Improvements So far as practicable, Purchaser shall protect Specified Roads and other improvements (such as roads, trails, telephone lines, ditches, and fences): (a) Existing in the operating area, (b) Determined to have a continuing need or use, and
Access and Use 1. Each Party shall ensure that any service supplier of the other Party is accorded access to and use of public telecommunications transport networks and services in a timely fashion, on transparent, reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms and conditions. This obligation shall be applied, inter alia, through paragraphs 2 through 6. 2. Each Party shall ensure that service suppliers of the other Party have access to and use of any public telecommunications transport network or service offered within or across the border of that Party, including private leased circuits, and to this end shall ensure, subject to the provisions of paragraphs 5 and 6, that such suppliers are permitted: (a) to purchase or lease and attach terminal or other equipment which interfaces with the network and which is necessary to supply their services; (b) to interconnect private leased or owned circuits with public telecommunications transport networks and services or with circuits leased or owned by other service suppliers; (c) to use operating protocols of their choice in the supply of any service, other than as necessary to ensure the availability of telecommunications transport networks and services to the public generally; and (d) to perform switching, signaling and processing functions. 3. Each Party shall ensure that service suppliers of the other Party may use public telecommunications transport networks and services for the movement of information 4. Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 3, a Party may take such measures as are necessary: (a) to ensure the security and confidentiality of messages; or (b) to protect the personal data of users of public telecommunications transport networks or services, subject to the requirement that such measures are not applied in a manner which would constitute a means of arbitrary or unjustifiable discrimination or a disguised restriction on trade in services. 5. Each Party shall ensure that no condition is imposed on access to and use of public telecommunications transport networks and services other than as necessary: (a) to safeguard the public service responsibilities of suppliers of public telecommunications transport networks and services, in particular their ability to make their networks or services available to the public generally; or (b) to protect the technical integrity of public telecommunications transport networks or services.