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House Journal: Page 1319: Thursday, April 6, 1995

12   communications services by refusing or delaying access
13   to the local exchange carrier's services.
14     2.  Discriminate against another provider of
15   communications services by refusing or delaying access
16   to essential facilities on terms and conditions no
17   less favorable than those the local exchange carrier
18   provides to itself and its affiliates.  An essential
19   facility is a local telecommunications facility,
20   feature, function, or capability of the local exchange
21   carrier's network that competitors cannot practically
22   or economically duplicate or obtain from other
23   sources, and to which reasonable access is necessary
24   to enable competition.
25     3.  Degrade the quality of access or service
26   provided to another provider of communications
27   services.
28     4.  Fail to disclose in a timely manner, upon
29   reasonable request and pursuant to a protective
30   agreement concerning proprietary information, all
31   information reasonably necessary for the design of
32   network interface equipment, network interface
33   services, or software that will meet the
34   specifications of the local exchange carrier's local
35   exchange network.
36     5.  Unreasonably refuse or delay interconnections
37   or provide inferior interconnections to another
38   provider.
39     6.  Use basic exchange service rates, directly or
40   indirectly, to subsidize or offset the costs of other
41   products or services offered by the local exchange
42   carrier.
43     7.  Discriminate in favor of itself or an affiliate
44   in the provision and pricing of, or extension of
45   credit for, any telephone service.
46     Sec. 9.  NEW SECTION.  476.30D  LOCAL EXCHANGE
47   COMPETITION.
48     1.  A certificate of public convenience and
49   necessity to provide local telephone service shall not
50   be interpreted as conveying a monopoly, exclusive

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 1   privilege, or franchise.  A competitive local exchange
 2   service provider shall not be subject to the
 3   requirements of this chapter, except that a
 4   competitive local exchange service provider shall
 5   obtain a certificate of public convenience and
 6   necessity pursuant to section 476.29, file tariffs,
 7   notify affected customers prior to any rate increase,
 8   file reports, information, and pay assessments
 9   pursuant to section 476.2, subsection 4, and sections
10   476.9, 476.10, 476.16, 476.30E, and 477C.7, and shall
11   be subject to the board's authority with respect to
12   adequacy of service, interconnection, discontinuation

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