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##### 136 Objects (1) The object of this Part is to promote the long-term interests of consumers of telecommunications services by: (a) promoting and protecting competition in the telecommunications industry generally and among carriers; and (b) enabling the carriers to compete with each other on an equal basis in providing telecommunications networks and supplying telecommunications services. (2) This object will be achieved by: (a) protecting each carrier from the misuse of market power by other carriers in relation to access to essential facilities or access to consumers; and (b) giving each carrier the right: (i) to interconnect its facilities to telecommunications networks of other carriers; and (ia) to have other carriers supply telecommunications services to it for the purposes of its supply of telecommunications services; and (ii) to obtain access to other services supplied by other carriers; and to do so on terms and conditions that: (iii) are fair to the first-mentioned carrier and to the other carriers concerned; and (iv) promote the long-term interests of consumers of telecommunications services; and (c) removing obstacles to consumers having equal access to the telecommunications services supplied by the various carriers; and (d) encouraging the efficient use of, and investment in, telecommunications infrastructure.