FCC 61.42 Revised as of October 1, 2006
Goto Year:2005 |
2007
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]
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