Implementation of Local Competition Provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996

In this document, the Commission analyzes petitioners' requests for reconsideration or clarification of the access requirements the Commission implemented pursuant to Section 224 of the Communications Act, as amended by the 1996 Telecommunications Act, including capacity expansion, the exercise of eminent domain, reservation of space, utilities' access obligations, worker qualifications, the timing and manner of notification of modifications, allocation of modification costs, and state certification of access regulation. The general requirements are designed to give parties flexibility to reach agreements on access to utility-controlled poles, ducts, conduits and rights-of-way, without the need for regulatory intervention.