Goto Section: 51.713 | 51.717 | Table of Contents
FCC 51.715
Revised as of October 1, 2007
Goto Year:2006 |
2008
Sec. 51.715 Interim transport and termination pricing.
(a) Upon request from a telecommunications carrier without an existing
interconnection arrangement with an incumbent LEC, the incumbent LEC shall
provide transport and termination of telecommunications traffic immediately
under an interim arrangement, pending resolution of negotiation or
arbitration regarding transport and termination rates and approval of such
rates by a state commission under sections 251 and 252 of the Act.
(1) This requirement shall not apply when the requesting carrier has an
existing interconnection arrangement that provides for the transport and
termination of telecommunications traffic by the incumbent LEC.
(2) A telecommunications carrier may take advantage of such an interim
arrangement only after it has requested negotiation with the incumbent LEC
pursuant to Sec. 51.301.
(b) Upon receipt of a request as described in paragraph (a) of this section,
an incumbent LEC must, without unreasonable delay, establish an interim
arrangement for transport and termination of telecommunications traffic at
symmetrical rates.
(1) In a state in which the state commission has established transport and
termination rates based on forward-looking economic cost studies, an
incumbent LEC shall use these state-determined rates as interim transport
and termination rates.
(2) In a state in which the state commission has established transport and
termination rates consistent with the default price ranges and ceilings
described in Sec. 51.707, an incumbent LEC shall use these state-determined
rates as interim rates.
(3) In a state in which the state commission has neither established
transport and termination rates based on forward-looking economic cost
studies nor established transport and termination rates consistent with the
default price ranges described in Sec. 51.707, an incumbent LEC shall set
interim transport and termination rates at the default ceilings for
end-office switching (0.4 cents per minute of use), tandem switching (0.15
cents per minute of use), and transport (as described in Sec. 51.707(b)(2)).
(c) An interim arrangement shall cease to be in effect when one of the
following occurs with respect to rates for transport and termination of
telecommunications traffic subject to the interim arrangement:
(1) A voluntary agreement has been negotiated and approved by a state
commission;
(2) An agreement has been arbitrated and approved by a state commission; or
(3) The period for requesting arbitration has passed with no such request.
(d) If the rates for transport and termination of telecommunications traffic
in an interim arrangement differ from the rates established by a state
commission pursuant to Sec. 51.705, the state commission shall require carriers
to make adjustments to past compensation. Such adjustments to past
compensation shall allow each carrier to receive the level of compensation
it would have received had the rates in the interim arrangement equalled the
rates later established by the state commission pursuant to Sec. 51.705.
Goto Section: 51.713 | 51.717
Goto Year: 2006 |
2008
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