Goto Section: 54.605 | 54.609 | Table of Contents
FCC 54.607
Revised as of October 1, 2008
Goto Year:2007 |
2009
Sec. 54.607 Determining the rural rate.
(a) The rural rate shall be the average of the rates actually being charged
to commercial customers, other than health care providers, for identical or
similar services provided by the telecommunications carrier providing the
service in the rural area in which the health care provider is located. The
rates included in this average shall be for services provided over the same
distance as the eligible service. The rates averaged to calculate the rural
rate must not include any rates reduced by universal service support
mechanisms. The “rural rate” shall be used as described in this subpart to
determine the credit or reimbursement due to a telecommunications carrier
that provides eligible telecommunications services to eligible health care
providers.
(b) If the telecommunications carrier serving the health care provider is
not providing any identical or similar services in the rural area, then the
rural rate shall be the average of the tariffed and other publicly available
rates, not including any rates reduced by universal service programs,
charged for the same or similar services in that rural area over the same
distance as the eligible service by other carriers. If there are no tariffed
or publicly available rates for such services in that rural area, or if the
carrier reasonably determines that this method for calculating the rural
rate is unfair, then the carrier shall submit for the state commission's
approval, for intrastate rates, or the Commission's approval, for interstate
rates, a cost-based rate for the provision of the service in the most
economically efficient, reasonably available manner.
(1) The carrier must provide, to the state commission, or intrastate rates,
or to the Commission, for interstate rates, a justification of the proposed
rural rate, including an itemization of the costs of providing the requested
service.
(2) The carrier must provide such information periodically thereafter as
required, by the state commission for intrastate rates or the Commission for
interstate rates. In doing so, the carrier must take into account
anticipated and actual demand for telecommunications services by all
customers who will use the facilities over which services are being provided
to eligible health care providers.
Goto Section: 54.605 | 54.609
Goto Year: 2007 |
2009
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