Examples of Merged Firm in a sentence
This mechanism is necessary because an agreement or tariff offering can be thoroughly undermined by strategic misconduct by the Merged Firm, and the delay inherent in regular litigation could effectively drive the Applicants’ competitors and business customers out of business.
The contract portability condition seeks to address the likely spread of worst practices by the Merged Firm and the elimination of BellSouth as an independent benchmark.
In this way, the commercial arbitration condition reduces the likelihood that the Merged Firm would act on its increased incentives to deny, delay and degrade transmission sold to competitors.
In connection with the provision of special access service, the Merged Firm shall be prohibited from enforcing any condition that is not reasonably related to the efficiencies yielded by volume and/or term commitments.
It does so by requiring that the Merged Firm allow a purchaser to take advantage of any contract or tariff offering by the Merged Firm in any state in any other part of the Merged Firm’s territory.
The following expedited arbitration mechanism shall be established for resolving disputes arising under any special access service agreement (both those that are the result of the arbitration process described in section C above and those negotiated without resort to arbitration) or tariff offering of the Merged Firm.
If, on the other hand, the signatories are correct in maintaining that the affected markets are not competitive, then the arbitration remedy will be a crucial mechanism, in conjunction with the price cap and other conditions described herein, for bringing the discipline of competition to bear on the Merged Firm and increasing the ability of competitors to challenge the entrenched incumbents and bring new, more cost-effective services to customers.
The commercial arbitration remedy is available to any carrier or enterprise customer seeking to purchase or continue to purchase special access services (“Requesting Customer”) from the Merged Firm in its ILEC territory.
The Merged Firm agrees that any grant of Forbearance under Section 10 of the Communications Act, as amended, shall not diminish, alter or in any way affect the Merged Firm’s obligations or responsibilities under these merger conditions.
The expedited process would be available to resolve alleged breaches by the Applicants of agreements resulting from the arbitration process or to address any other unreasonable conduct by the Merged Firm in providing special access service pursuant to a negotiated agreement or general tariff offering.