FCC 36.152 Revised as of October 1, 2007
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Sec. 36.152 Categories of Cable and Wire Facilities (C&WF).
(a) C&WF are basically divided between exchange and interexchange. Exchange
C&WF consists of the following categories:
(1) Exchange Line C&WF Excluding Wideband —Category 1—This category includes
C&W facilities between local central offices and subscriber premises used
for message telephone, private line, local channels, and for circuits
between control terminals and radio stations providing very high frequency
maritime service or urban or highway mobile service.
(2) Wideband and Exchange Trunk C&WF—Category 2—This category includes all
wideband, including Exchange Line Wideband and C&WF between local central
offices and Wideband facilities. It also includes C&WF between central
offices or other switching points used by any common carrier for interlocal
trunks wholly within an exchange or metropolitan service area, interlocal
trunks with one or both terminals outside a metropolitan service area
carrying some exchange traffic, toll connecting trunks, tandem trunks
principally carrying exchange traffic, the exchange trunk portion of WATS
access lines, the exchange trunk portion of private line local channels, and
the exchange trunk portion of circuits between control terminals and radio
stations providing very high frequency maritime service or urban or highway
mobile service.
(3) The procedures for apportioning the cost of exchange cable and wire
facilites among the operations are set forth in Sec. Sec. 36.154 and 36.155.
(b) Interexchange C&WF—Category 3—This category includes the C&WF used for
message toll and toll private line services. It includes cable and wire
facilities carrying intertoll circuits, tributary circuits, the
interexchange channel portion of special service circuits, circuits between
control terminals and radio stations used for overseas or coastal harbor
service, interlocal trunks between offices in the different exchange or
metropolitan service areas carrying only message toll traffic and certain
tandem trunks which carry principally message toll traffic.
(1) The procedures for apportioning the cost of interexchange cable and wire
facilities among the operations are set forth in Sec. 36.156.
(c) Host/Remote Message C&WF—Category 4—This category includes the cost of
message host/remote location C&WF for which a message circuit switching
function is performed at the host central office. It applies to C&WF between
host offices and all remote locations. The procedures for apportioning the
cost of these facilities among the operations are set forth in Sec. 36.157.
(d) Effective July 1, 2001, through June 30, 2006, study areas subject to
price cap regulation, pursuant to Sec. 61.41, shall assign the average balance
of Account 2410 to the categories/subcategories, as specified in Sec. Sec. 36.152(a)
through (c), based on the relative percentage assignment of the average
balance of Account 2410 to these categories/subcategories during the twelve
month period ending December 31, 2000.
[ 52 FR 17229 , May 6, 1987, as amended at 66 FR 33206 , June 21, 2001; 71 FR 65746 , Nov. 9, 2006]
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