Yeah, I know there are 15 states that have mandatory access laws, but Ive heard California, Massachusetts and Texas have unique, some say very strange, laws. Whats that about?
Texas, California and Massachusetts mandatory access laws/regulations give certain telecommunications providers the right to provide services to MDU residents without MDU owners consent. 1. Texas: 16 Texas Administrative Code 129 provides that any requesting telecommunications utility must be provided non-discriminatory access (for a reasonable fee) to any conduit located within or between MDU buildings with four or more units for the purpose of providing telecommunications services to MDU residents. A telecommunications utility includes any communications carrier that transmits, conveys or receives communications wholly or partly over a telephone system. Texas. Utilities Code 51.002(11). Although the term telecommunications utility does not include cable operators, the term communications is not defined by statute or regulation, and does not appear to exclude video signals. Thus, in Texas, an MDU owner must permit any communications provider to utilize in- or between-building conduits
