VII. Conclusion

Pacific has demonstrated through its satisfaction of twelve of the fourteen checklist items of § 271, compliance with a significant majority of our D.98-12-069 technical requirements, positive OSS Test results, and generally strong performance results that it has vastly progressed in opening access to its network in the more than three years since we drafted our blueprint to long distance authorization. While Pacific's progress has been vast, it has been neither perfect nor complete. We are keenly aware that § 271 authorization does not require perfection; yet, Pacific's less than complete progress has given California technical, not actual, local telephone competition. Pub. Util. Code § 709.2 requires us to not only foster local telephone and local long distance competition but also to assess their impacts on the intrastate interexchange telecommunications market. And, we do so here not to thwart Pacific's § 271 quest, but to fulfill our obligation to safeguard California's telecommunications market as best we can. Thus, pursuant to Pacific's compliance with the directives set forth in our Order today, we grant its renewed motion for an Order that it has satisfied a substantial majority of the 14-point checklist in § 271 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996.