US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

                                  TITLE  62
                             RAILROADS AND OTHER
                               PUBLIC UTILITIES
                                  CHAPTER 6
                        TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1988
    62-608A.  INTERLATA SERVICE RESTRICTIONS. (1) As used in this section:
    (a)  "Dialing parity" means the provision of dialing arrangements and
    other service characteristics by a telephone corporation subject to
    interLATA telecommunication service restrictions, to a telephone
    corporation which is not subject to interLATA telecommunication service
    restriction, which dialing arrangements and other service characteristics
    are equivalent in type and quality to those provided by the telephone
    corporation subject to interLATA telecommunication service restrictions in
    its provision of message telecommunication services to its subscribers;
    (b)  "InterLATA telecommunication service restrictions" means the
    restrictions upon interexchange telecommunication services contained in
    section II(D)(1) of the Modification of Final Judgment entered in the case
    of the United States v. Western Electric Co., 552 F. Supp. 131 (D.D.C.
    1982), and section V(C)(1) of the Final Judgment entered in the case of
    the United States v. GTE Corporation, 1985-1 Trade Cs. (CCH) P66, 355
    (D.D.C. Dec. 21, 1984).
    (c)  "LATA" (Local Access and Transport Area), means the geographical area
    within which a telephone corporation may provide message telecommunication
    services without violating interLATA telecommunication service
    restrictions.
    (2)  A telephone corporation providing basic local exchange service, which
also provides message telecommunication services and is subject to interLATA
telecommunication service restrictions, shall not be required to provide
dialing parity to other telephone corporations for the provision of intraLATA
message telecommunication services until such telephone corporation is also
permitted to provide interstate and intrastate interLATA and intraLATA message
telecommunication services on an integrated basis, and is not subject to
interLATA telecommunication service restrictions.