56-479.1 - Long distance service; change of carriers; prior authorization. - Virginia Statutes

§ 56-479.1. Long distance service; change of carriers; prior authorization.

No telephone company shall cause the long distance carrier designation of anytelephone customer to be changed following such customer's initial selectionthereof when establishing or reestablishing telephone service, without havingfirst received a statement from the long distance carrier that such carrierhas received a letter of agency or letter of authorization or an electronicauthorization by use of an 800 number or an oral authorization verified by anindependent third party, or any other means of authorization that is approvedby the Federal Communications Commission.

(1996, c. 476.)