[1] See Public Notice, DA 96-1078 (rel. July 3, 1996).

[2] Presentation of Chairman Reed Hundt to the 33rd Annual Convention of OPASTCO, July 15, 1996, p.4.

[3] See discussion in Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and Order Establishing Joint Board ("Notice"), CC Docket No. 96-45, released March 8, 1996, Paragraph 42 et seq.

[4] See Notice, supra, Paragraph 28.

[5] S. Rep. No. 104-458, 104th Cong., 2d Sess., 131 (1996).

[6] See, e.g., Section 271 (Bell operating company entry into interLATA services), Section 273 (Manufacturing by Bell operating companies).

[7] See Comments of Pacific Telecom, Inc., CC Docket No. 80-286 (filed October 10, 1995) at 2.

[8] See "A Review of Current Interstate Support Mechanisms," Common Carrier Bureau, Federal Communications Commission (February 23, 1996).

[9] Presentation of Chairman Reed Hundt to the 33rd Annual Convention of OPASTCO, July 15, 1996, p. 3.

[10] California Public Utilities Commission, Rulemaking on the Commission's Own Motion to Govern Open Access to Bottleneck Services and Establish a Framework for Network Architecture Development of Dominant Carrier Networks, R. 93-04-003, Prehearing Conference, July 12, 1996, Transcript at p. 145 et seq.