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12. Preventing anticompetitive practices, unfair competition, and abuse of market position does not mean that the
Commission must impose conditions on every applicant which has some advantage not shared by every other applicant.
The Commission is required to treat all LEC's [Local Exchange Providers i.e. phone companies] equally, not make all
LEC's equal. BellSouth and the large cable companies certainly enjoy better capital costs than a typical small business
owner. Does this put the small company at a competitive disadvantage? Of course. Should the Commission determine
which LEC has the highest capital costs and require that all other companies impute that amount into their rates to level
the playing field"? Certainly not. If Marietta has to comply with expensive open records requirements or expensive
municipal bidding requirements, should those costs be imputed into the rates of all private companies? Again, no.
Similarly, if BellSouth has a large tax write-off one year, it would be ridiculous to require that they impute into their tax
rates the taxes they did not have to pay merely because some other company may not have had a tax write-off that year
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![Preventing anticompetitive practices, unfair competition, and abuse of market position does not mean that the
Commission must impose conditions on every applicant which has some advantage not shared by every other applicant.
The Commission is required to treat all LEC's [Local Exchange Providers i.e. phone companies] equally, not make all
LEC's equal. BellSouth and the large cable companies certainly enjoy better capital costs than a typical small business
owner. Does this put the small company at a competitive disadvantage? Of course. Should the Commission determine
which LEC has the highest capital costs and require that all other companies impute that amount into their rates to level
the playing field"? Certainly not. If Marietta has to comply with expensive open records requirements or expensive
municipal bidding requirements, should those costs be imputed into the rates of all private companies? Again, no.
Similarly, if BellSouth has a large tax write-off one year, it would be ridiculous to require that they impute into their tax
rates the taxes they did not have to pay merely because some other company may not have had a tax write-off that year
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