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Features of the original document layout such as columns, tables, line and letter spacing, pagination, and margins will not be preserved in the text version. Although I support today's decision based on our rules, I am troubled by Verizon's marketing practices in New York. When a customer calls a local carrier to establish service on the primary line, the carrier must tell the customer that he or she has a choice of long-distance providers. Yet, when many customers call Verizon to order additional lines, it does not inform those consumers of their right to use a long-distance carrier other than Verizon. In passing the Telecommunications Act of 1996, Congress sought to promote competition in all telecommunications markets.