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107 STAT. 394 PUBLIC LAW 103-66—AUG. 10, 1993 Regulations. "(D) The Commission shall, not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this subparagraph, complete a rule- making required to implement this paragraph with respect to the licensing of personal communications services, including making any determinations required by subparagraph (C). "(2) NON-COMMON CARRIER TREATMENT OF PRIVATE MOBILE SERVICES.—^A person engaged in the provision of a service that is a private mobile service shall not, insofar as such person is so engaged, be treated as a common carrier for any purpose under this Act. A common carrier (other than a person that was treated as a provider of a private land mobile service prior to the enactment of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993) shall not provide any dispatch service on any frequency allocated for common carrier service, except to the extent such dispatch service is provided on stations licensed in the domestic public land mobile radio service before January 1, 1982, The Commission may by regulation terminate, in whole or in part, the prohibition contained in the preceding sentence if the Commission determines that such termination will serve the public interest. "(3) STATE PREEMPTION.—(A) Notwithstanding sections 2(b) and 221(b), no State or local government shall have any author- ity to regulate the entry of or the rates charged by any commer- cial mobile service or any private mobile service, except that this paragraph shall not prohibit a State from regulating the other terms and conditions of commercial mobile services. Noth- ing in this subparagraph shall exempt providers of commercial mobile services (where such services are a substitute for land line telephone exchange service for a substantial portion of the commimications within such State) from requirements imposed by a State commission on all providers of telecommuni- cations services necessary to ensure the universal availability of telecommimications service at affordable rates. Notwith- standing the first sentence of this subparagraph, a State may petition the Commission for authority to regulate the rates for any commercial mobile service and the Commission shall grant such petition if such State demonstrates that— "(i) market conditions with respect to such services fail to protect subscribers adequately from imjust and unreasonable rates or rates that are unjustly or unreason- ably discriminatory; or "(ii) such market conditions exist and such service is a replacement for land line telephone exchange service for a substantial portion of the telephone land line exchange service within such State. The Commission shall provide reasonable opportunity for public comment in response to such petition, and shall, within 9 months after the date of its submission, grant or deny such petition. If the Commission grants such petition, the Commis- sion shall authorize the State to exercise imder State law such authority over rates, for such periods of time, as the Commission deems necessary to ensure that such rates are just and reasonable and not unjustly or unreasonably discrimi- natory. "(B) If a State has in effect on June 1, 1993, any regulation concerning the rates for any commercial mobile service offered in such State on such date, such State may, no later than