Commission Authority To Require Interconnection For The Purpose Of Providing Message Telecommunication Services

TITLE 62 RAILROADS AND OTHER PUBLIC UTILITIES CHAPTER 6 TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1988 62-608. Commission authority to require interconnection for the purpose of providing message telecommunication services. A telephone corporation providing basic local exchange service shall not be required to provide message telecommunication services. In the event a telephone corporation which provides basic local exchange service does not have interconnection with a provider of message telecommunication services, the commission may order any provider of message telecommunication service in the state to interconnect with that telephone corporation upon such terms as will be just and equitable to such provider.