The equation is simple: increased competition equals greater customer choice, product innovation and more reliable, better-priced service.

To help customers realize these benefits, SBC has done an outstanding job in fulfilling its obligations under the 1996 Telecommunications Act to open its local service markets to competition. In fact, SBC has spent more than four billion dollars in this effort and has devoted enormous staff and technical resources to meet each of the 1996 Act's 14-point market opening checklist obligations.

SBC is also urging federal lawmakers and regulators to remove barriers that limit market competition and discourage private investment in new or expanded broadband networks. At the same time, SBC is actively working with state and federal regulators — and competitors — to open its local markets to competition, thus promoting greater customer choice in local and long distance services. To date, SBC has been successful in gaining state and FCC approval in order to provide long distance services to customers in Arkansas, California, Kansas, Missouri, Nevada, Oklahoma, and Texas.

Additional Information About SBC's Competition and Long Distance Policy Initiatives
	Long Distance Competition/FAQs
	Long Distance News by State
	Summary of State-to-State
	Timeline of Long Distance Activities
	Product Reference and Pricing Guide
	Performance Measures
	Structural Separation