Relating to telecommunications; regulating open video systems to +encourage competition among cable services; exempting OVS operators authorized +by the federal communications commission from certain other cable services +regulatory provisions and from local franchise authority agreements; requiring +operators to obtain certification to operate from the FCC; authorizing and +providing for negotiation of operating agreements with local franchising +authorities for public, educational and governmental (PEG) access channels and +providing for subscriber access; requiring OVS operators to comply with certain +right-of-way requirements, excepting the franchise requirement; subjecting +operators to a gross revenue fee, authorizing indication on subscriber bills and +recovery from programming providers on a proportional basis; providing for +application of the regulatory provisions to existing operators (mk)