"Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, a public utility
district may provide telecommunications services to end users as a
provider of last resort. For the purposes of this chapter, such services
may be provided under the following circumstances: A district that has
constructed telecommunications facilities may provide telecommunications
services to end users over those facilities and market such services if
retail service providers have been given the opportunity to use such
facilities but either fail to deliver that service at all or after one
year fail to attract as customers of their service more than 50 percent of
the total number of end users that have access to such facilities. The
district shall cease to provide telecommunications services and transfer
the end users to a retail service provider at such time that retail
service providers deliver that telecommunications service to more than 50
percent of the total number of end users, including those previously
served by the district, that have access to such facilities constructed by
the district."