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FCC 61.42
Revised as of October 1, 2005
Goto Year:2004 | 2006
Sec.  61.42   Price cap baskets and service categories.

   (a)–(c) [Reserved]

   (d)  Each local exchange carrier subject to price cap regulation shall
   establish baskets of services as follows:

   (1)  A  basket  for  the  common line, marketing, and certain residual
   interconnection charge interstate access elements as described in  Sec.  Sec. 69.115,
   69.152, 69.153, 69.154, 69.155, 69.156, and 69.157 of this chapter. For
   purposes of  Sec.  Sec. 61.41 through 61.49, this basket shall be referred to as the
   “CMT basket.”

   (2) A basket for traffic sensitive switched interstate access elements. For
   purposes of  Sec.  Sec. 61.41 through 61.49 of this chapter, this basket shall be
   referred to as the “traffic-sensitive basket.”

   (3) A basket for trunking services as described in  Sec.  Sec. 69.110, 69.111, 69.112,
   69.125(b), 69.129, and 69.155 of this chapter. For purposes of  Sec.  Sec. 61.41
   through 61.49, this basket shall be referred to as the “trunking basket.”

   (4)(i) To the extent that a local exchange carrier specified in  Sec. 61.41(a)
   (2) or (3) offers interstate interexchange services that are not classified
   as access services for the purpose of part 69 of this chapter, such exchange
   carrier shall establish a fourth basket for such services. For purposes of
    Sec.  Sec. 61.41 through 61.49 of this chapter, this basket shall be referred to as
   the “interexchange basket.”

   (ii) If a price cap carrier has implemented interLATA and intraLATA toll
   dialing parity everywhere it provides local exchange services at the holding
   company level, that price cap carrier may file a tariff revision to remove
   corridor and interstate intraLATA toll services from its interexchange
   basket.

   (5) A basket for special access services as described in  Sec. 69.114 of this
   chapter.

   (e)(1)  The traffice sensitive switched interstate access basket shall
   contain such services as the Commission shall permit or require, including
   the following service categories:

   (i) Local switching as described in  Sec. 69.106(f) of this chapter;

   (ii) Information, as described in  Sec. 69.109 of this chapter;

   (iii) Data base access services;

   (iv) Billing name and address, as described in  Sec. 69.128 of this chapter;

   (v) Local switching trunk ports, as described in  Sec. 69.106(f)(1) of this
   chapter; and

   (vi) Signalling transfer point port termination, as described in  Sec. 69.125(c)
   of this chapter.

   (2)  The  trunking basket shall contain such switched transport as the
   Commission  shall  permit  or require, including the following service
   categories and subcategories:

   (i) Voice grade entrance facilities, voice grade direct-trunked transport,
   voice grade dedicated signalling transport,

   (ii) High capacity flat-rated transport, including the following service
   subcategories:

   (A) DS1 entrance facilities, DS1 direct-trunked transport, DS1 dedicated
   signalling transport, and

   (B) DS3 entrance facilities, DS3 direct-trunked transport, DS3 dedicated
   signalling transport.

   (iii) Tandem-switched transport, as described in  Sec. 69.111 of this chapter;
   and

   (iv)  Signalling for tandem switching, as described in  Sec. 69.129 of this
   chapter.

   (3) The special access basket shall contain special access services as the
   Commission  shall  permit  or require, including the following service
   categories and subcategories:

   (i)  Voice grade special access, WATS special access, metallic special
   access, and telegraph special access services;

   (ii) Audio and video services;

   (iii)  High  capacity  special access, and DDS services, including the
   following service subcategories:

   (A) DS1 special access services; and

   (B) DS3 special access services;

   (iv) Wideband data and wideband analog services.

   (f)  Each local exchange carrier subject to price cap regulation shall
   exclude  from  its price cap baskets such services or portions of such
   services as the Commission has designated or may hereafter designate by
   order.

   (g) New services, other than those within the scope of paragraph (f) of this
   section, must be included in the affected basket at the first annual price
   cap tariff filing following completion of the base period in which they are
   introduced. To the extent that such new services are permitted or required
   to be included in new or existing service categories within the assigned
   basket, they shall be so included at the first annual price cap tariff
   filing following completion of the base period in which they are introduced.

   [ 54 FR 19842 , May 8, 1989, as amended at  55 FR 42382 , Oct. 19, 1990;  55 FR 50558 , Dec. 7, 1990;  56 FR 5956 , Feb. 14, 1991;  56 FR 55239 , Oct. 25, 1991;
    57 FR 54718 , Nov. 20, 1992;  58 FR 7868 , Feb. 10, 1993;  58 FR 29552 , May 21,
   1993;  58 FR 31914 , June 7, 1993;  58 FR 36145 , July 6, 1993;  59 FR 10301 ,
   Mar. 4, 1994;  59 FR 32930 , June 27, 1994;  60 FR 4569 , Jan. 24, 1995;  60 FR 13639 , Mar. 14, 1995;  60 FR 52346 , Oct. 6, 1995;  62 FR 31930 , June 11, 1997;
    64 FR 46589 , Aug. 26, 1999;  64 FR 51265 , Sept. 22, 1999;  65 FR 38695 , June
   21, 2000]


Goto Section: 61.41 | 61.43

Goto Year: 2004 | 2006
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