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under the terms of the FTNS licences, operators are obliged to provide their services to resellers at their published rates. An FTNS operator is not precluded from reselling tariffed services acquired from another FTNS licensee;
each operator (HKTI and the four FTNS operators) is the subject of a discrete permission to operate and does not act as an agent of any other operator. Interconnection matters between them fall under Section 36A of the Telecommunication Ordinance;
numbering issues;
"00X" codes are to be assigned to local FTNS operators for customer access via their networks to the international gateway(s);
a variety of "0XX" access codes are to be removed to the "10X" range after 30 June 1995;
number portability is to be introduced based on an intelligent network (IN) approach. Pending the implementation of the IN approach, operators shall implement an interim solution based on call forwarding.
customer access arrangements. Direct access is to be facilitated and indirect access allowed subject to particular regulatory oversight.
The rest of this Statement provides more detailed background on these issues and expands on the TA's consideration of them.
End/Tuesday, March 28, 1995
Resolution at Arts Development Council meeting
The Hong Kong Arts Development Council (HKADC) resolved at its meeting today (Tuesday) to give its support in principle to two documents - the Guidelines for Representative Arts Organisations and for their Nominees for Membership of the HKADC and the Standing Orders of the HKADC as drafted and presented for discussion at the meeting of the LegCo Panel for Recreation and Culture on March 23.
Upon fine-tuning of the above two documents by the Recreation and Culture Branch (RCB) taking into consideration views of the arts community and the HKADC, the contents of the two papers, if amended, will be circulated again to the HKADC for approval.