Progress On Point - IS THERE LIGHT AT THE END OF THE REGULATORY - TUNNEL? NOT IN PENNSYLVANIA. PDF Download

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• The agency has yet to approve a request to allow any of the Bell Operating Companies to provide long distance service, despite the fact that we are approaching the fourth anniversary of the passage of the 1996 Act and despite the fact that several state regulatory bodies have recommended approval of such requests. [...] Prior to the implementation of policies at the federal and state level designed to foster competition in the local exchange marketplace - and the actual emergence of competition as a result of these policies - the imposition of some form of structural 3 Joint Petition of Nextlink Pennsylvania, et al., Opinion and Order, Docket Nos. [...] Specifically, the interconnection, unbundling, and resale requirements applicable to the ILECs - in other words, the array of non-structural safeguards guaranteeing that ILEC competitors will have cost-based access to the ILEC's own network infrastructure and will not be disfavored vis-à-vis the incumbent's own service offerings - ensure that local exchange marketplace is in the process of being o. [...] As the PUC points out, in order to recommend such approval to the FCC, the Department of Justice must conclude that the local market is "irreversibly open to competition" and the FCC must find that BA has satisfied the TA's "14-point competitive checklist." The PUC's action is even more difficult to understand when one considers the timing. [...] While neither the Act nor its implementation by the FCC (or the PUCs) has been close to perfect, the fact is that the telecommunications industry today is vastly more competitive than in February 1996, when the Telecommunications Act became law.