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Mo. PSC gave SBC business unit Southwestern Bell Telephone (SBT) ...

Mo. PSC gave SBC business unit Southwestern Bell Telephone (SBT) list of changes it must make in interconnection and unbundling tariffs if it wants agency’s endorsement for Sec. 271 interLATA bid. PSC last week told telco it wouldn’t endorse…

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long distance entry based on record before agency. To win approval, PSC told SBT Tues. it must implement Mo. colocation tariff with Tex. rates and Kan. service terms, adopt Tex. rates for unbundled loop conditioning charges and for 95 specific unbundled network elements (UNEs). Agency said carrier it also must adopt Tex. rates and terms for Mo. line sharing, unbundled local transport and most nonrecurring wholesale service charges. Tex. rates will serve for interim until permanent cost-based Mo. rates are developed, PSC said. Agency also told SBC it must reduce service deposits required of CLECs. It said that if SBT implemented PSC’s list of changes and continued to meet Tex.-type wholesale service performance standards it already had established for Mo., SBT would meet Sec. 271 checklist and PSC could endorse company’s long distance entry. Company has until Feb. 23 to respond.