Question 2/III - Special conditions for the lease of continental
telecommunication circuits for private service
(permanent Question - continuation of Question 2/III studied
in 1985-1988)

Amendments and additions to Recommendation D.2.

Reasons for the study

Recommendation D.2 sets out special conditions for the lease of
continental private telecommunication circuits. The revision of this
Recommendation constitutes a permanent Question which is constantly
evolving as a result of technical and economic developments. In
particular, consideration will no doubt be given to:

a) the degree of difference between the coefficients for telephone- type
and telegraph-type circuits, taking into account:

1) the relative costs of provision of the circuits;

2) the implications that there might be if certain users were to take on
a common carrier role;

3) market developments;

b) the scale of coefficients which should be established for charging
for telephone-type circuits, taking particular account of:

1) the various types of circuit provided, the cost of providing them and
their conditions of use;

2) general policy factors;

3) the experience acquired by administrations and the expanding
requirements of customers;

c) the extra charges which might be established for telephone-type
circuits having special properties, for example, circuits meeting the
technical specifications of Recommendations M.1020 and M.1025;

d) the tariff implications of the gradual introduction of digital
transmission techniques and the new facilities thus available, in
liaison with the study of Question D/III;

e) the coherence to be maintained between the tariff principles
applicable to public data transmission services and those applicable to
international private leased circuits.