TWO ACR'S RESOLVE THEIR OWN POTENTIAL CONFLICT AFTER BEING CHANGED TO RAMP CTLR BY CLT LC.

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AFTER COMPLETING A VISUAL APCH AND LNDG ON RWY 36R AT KCLT; WE WERE CLRED BY THE TWR CTLR TO 'TURN LEFT ON ROMEO; PROCEED STRAIGHT INTO THE RAMP AND CALL RAMP CTL.' (I.E.: BY PASS GND CTLR). WHILE APCHING THE INTXN OF ROMEO AND RWY 23 WE OBSERVED AN ACFT TAXIING SW ON RWY 23 (ON OUR RIGHT). I SLOWED OUR TAXI SPD UNTIL IT APPEARED THE OTHER ACFT WOULD GIVE WAY; THEN CONTINUED ACROSS HE INTXN. AS WE SWITCHED TO RAMP CTL; THE CREW OF THE OTHER ACFT ANNOUNCED THEY WERE OK AND WE HADN'T HIT THEM! APPARENTLY; THE TWR HAD GIVEN THEM A SIMILAR CLRNC AND THEY HAD GONE OVER TO THE RAMP CTL FREQ WHILE STILL ON RWY 23. THEY HAD EXPECTED US TO GIVE WAY; EVEN THOUGH WE WERE ALREADY ON TXWY ROMEO (WHICH HEY NEEDED TO JOIN) AND ARRIVED AT THE INTXN AHEAD OF THEM. THE PROBLEM COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED IF: ONE; TOWER HAD HANDED US OVER TO GND CTLR FOR SEQUENCING TO THE RAMP. TWO; KCLT HAD CLRLY DEFINED FREQ CHANGE OVER POINTS. THREE; THE CREW HAD NOT ASSUMED THE OTHER WOULD GIVE WAY; BUT RATHER; JUST STOPPED AND RESOLVED THE SIT. INSTEAD; WE HAD 'SEE AND AVOID.'