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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (4163)	6/13/1999 8:16:00 PM
From: MikeM54321	Respond to of 12823

" I'll leave the interpretations to you folks." Frank, Okay here goes in plain English: Until an ILEC is given permission to offer long distance to their customers, or until 3 years have passed since Telecommunications Act of 1996, a long distance company (that serves greater than 5 percent of the Nation's access capacity) may not combine with an ILEC for long distance service. In even plainer English: An ILEC can merge (about now) with a long distance carrier if the long distance carrier doesn't have more that 5% of the USA's long distance capacity. So where did I go wrong? Only about a hundred ways to interpret the governmental goobly-gook. MikeM(From Florida) ____________________________ Here's the original FCC version for reference: Joint marketing of local and long distance services: Until a Bell operating company is authorized pursuant to subsection (d) to provide interLATA services in an in-region State, or until 36 months have passed since the date of enactment of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, whichever is earlier, a telecommunications carrier that serves greater than 5 percent of the Nation's presubscribed access lines may not jointly market in such State telephone exchange service obtained from such company pursuant to section 251(c)(4) with interLATA services offered by that telecommunications carrier.