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FCC 54.307
Revised as of October 1, 2008
Goto Year:2007 |
2009
Sec. 54.307 Support to a competitive eligible telecommunications carrier.
(a) Calculation of support. A competitive eligible telecommunications
carrier shall receive universal service support to the extent that the
competitive eligible telecommunications carrier captures the subscriber
lines of an incumbent local exchange carrier (LEC) or serves new subscriber
lines in the incumbent LEC's service area.
(1) A competitive eligible telecommunications carrier serving loops in the
service area of a rural incumbent local exchange carrier, as that term is
defined in Sec. 54.5 of this chapter, shall receive support for each line it
serves in a particular service area based on the support the incumbent LEC
would receive for each such line, disaggregated by cost zone if
disaggregation zones have been established within the service area pursuant
to Sec. 54.315 of this subpart. A competitive eligible telecommunications
carrier serving loops in the service area of a non-rural incumbent local
exchange carrier shall receive support for each line it serves in a
particular wire center based on the support the incumbent LEC would receive
for each such line. A competitive eligible telecommunications carrier
serving loops in the service area of a rate-of-return carrier shall be
eligible to receive Interstate Common Line Support for each line it serves
in the service area in accordance with the formula in Sec. 54.901.
(2) A competitive eligible telecommunications carrier that uses switching
purchased as unbundled network elements pursuant to Sec. 51.307 of this chapter
to provide the supported services shall receive the lesser of the unbundled
network element price for switching or the per-line DEM support of the
incumbent LEC, if any. A competitive eligible telecommunications carrier
that uses loops purchased as unbundled network elements pursuant to Sec. 51.307
of this chapter to provide the supported services shall receive the lesser
of the unbundled network element price for the loop or the incumbent LEC's
per-line payment from the high-cost loop support, LTS, and Interstate Common
Line Support mechanisms, if any. The incumbent LEC providing
nondiscriminatory access to unbundled network elements to such competitive
eligible telecommunications carrier shall receive the difference between the
level of universal service support provided to the competitive eligible
telecommunications carrier and the per-customer level of support that the
incumbent LEC would have received.
(3) A competitive eligible telecommunications carrier that provides the
supported services using neither unbundled network elements purchased
pursuant to Sec. 51.307 of this chapter nor wholesale service purchased pursuant
to section 251(c)(4) of the Act will receive the full amount of universal
service support that the incumbent LEC would have received for that
customer.
(b) In order to receive support pursuant to this subpart, a competitive
eligible telecommunications carrier must report to the Administrator the
number of working loops it serves in a service area pursuant to the schedule
set forth in paragraph (c) of this section. For a competitive eligible
telecommunications carrier serving loops in the service area of a rural
incumbent local exchange carrier, as that term is defined in Sec. 54.5, the
carrier must report, by customer class, the number of working loops it
serves in the service area, disaggregated by cost zone if disaggregation
zones have been established within the service area pursuant to Sec. 54.315. For
a competitive eligible telecommunications carrier serving loops in the
service area of a non-rural telephone company, the carrier must report the
number of working loops it serves in the service area, by customer class if
the non-rural telephone company receives Interstate Common Line Support
pursuant to Sec. 54.901 and by disaggregation zone if disaggregation zones have
been established within the service area pursuant to Sec. 54.315 of this
subpart, and the number of working loops it serves in each wire center in
the service area. For universal service support purposes, working loops are
defined as the number of working Exchange Line C&WF loops used jointly for
exchange and message telecommunications service, including C&WF subscriber
lines associated with pay telephones in C&WF Category 1, but excluding WATS
closed end access and TWX service. Competitive eligible telecommunications
carriers providing mobile wireless service in an incumbent LEC's service
area shall use the customer's billing address for purposes of identifying
the service location of a mobile wireless customer in a service area.
(c) A competitive eligible telecommunications carrier must submit the data
required pursuant to paragraph (b) of this section according to the
schedule.
(1) No later than July 31st of each year, submit data as of December 31st of
the previous calendar year;
(2) No later than September 30th of each year, submit data as of March 31st
of the existing calendar year;
(3) No later than December 30th of each year, submit data as of June 30th of
the existing calendar year;
(4) No later than March 30th of each year, submit data as of September 30th
of the previous calendar year.
(d) Newly designated eligible telecommunications carriers. Notwithstanding
the deadlines in paragraph (c) of this section, a carrier shall be eligible
to receive support as of the effective date of its designation as an
eligible telecommunications carrier under section 214(e)(2) or (e)(6),
provided that it submits the data required pursuant to paragraph (b) of this
section within 60 days of that effective date. Thereafter, the eligible
telecommunications carrier must submit the data required in paragraph (b) of
this section pursuant to the schedule in paragraph (c) of this section.
[ 62 FR 32948 , June 17, 1997, as amended at 63 FR 2128 , Jan. 13, 1998; 64 FR 67431 , Dec. 1, 1999; 65 FR 26516 , May 8, 2000; 66 FR 30087 , June 5, 2001; 66 FR 59726 , Nov. 30, 2001; 68 FR 31623 , May 28, 2003; 69 FR 34602 , June 22,
2004; 70 FR 29979 , May 25, 2005]
Goto Section: 54.305 | 54.309
Goto Year: 2007 |
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