                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

APPROVAL (§ 56-484.7:2)

The Commission shall find that it is in the public interest to approve the
offering of qualifying communications services as defined in § 56-484.7:1
unless it shall be demonstrated to the Commission and found that, within the
geographic area specified in the petition: (i) the qualifying communications
service specified in the petition as provided for in § 56-484.7:1 is readily
and generally in the specified geographic area available from each of three or
more nonaffiliated companies and is functionally equivalent for consumers in
that specified geographic area to one or more services offered by each of the
three or more competitors; (ii) the petition is not in compliance with the
requirements of § 56-484.7:1; or (iii) the offering of the proposed qualifying
communications services will not benefit consumers.

HISTORY: 1999, c. 916; 2002, cc. 479, 489; 2003, c. 711.