In 1996, the United States Congress sought to provide for local market competition in the telecommunications industry with the passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (the "1996 Act"). The 1996 Act allows for new competitive local exchange carriers ("CLECs") to enter local telephone markets by several mechanisms. One mechanism involves the CLEC's access to parts of the network of an incumbent local exchange carrier ("ILEC") as unbundled...
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