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FCC 69.306
Revised as of October 1, 2008
Goto Year:2007 |
2009
Sec. 69.306 Central office equipment (COE).
(a) The Separations Manual categories shall be used for purposes of
apportioning investment in such equipment except that any Central office
equipment attributable to local transport shall be assigned to the Transport
elements.
(b) COE Category 1 (Operator Systems Equipment) shall be apportioned among
the interexchange category and the access elements as follows: Category 1
that is used for intercept services shall be assigned to the Local Switching
element. Category 1 that is used for directory assistance shall be assigned
to the Information element. Category 1 other than service observation boards
that is not assigned to the Information element and is not used for
intercept services shall be assigned to the interexchange category. Service
observation boards shall be apportioned among the interexchange category,
and the Information and Transport access elements based on the remaining
combined investment in COE Category 1, Category 2 and Category 3.
(c) COE Category 2 (Tandem Switching Equipment) that is deemed to be
exchange equipment for purposes of the Modification of Final Judgment in
United States v. Western Electric Co. shall be assigned to the tandem
switching charge subelement and the interconnection charge element. COE
Category 2 which is associated with the signal transfer point function shall
be assigned to the local switching category. COE Category 2 which is used to
provide transmission facilities between the local exchange carrier's
signalling transfer point and the database shall be assigned to the Line
Information Database subelement at Sec. 69.120(a). All other COE Category 2
shall be assigned to the interexchange category.
(d) COE Category 3 (Local Switching Equipment) shall be assigned to the
Local Switching element except as provided in paragraph (a) of this section;
and that,
(1) For telephone companies subject to price cap regulation set forth in
part 61 of this chapter, line-side port costs shall be assigned to the
Common Line rate element; and
(2) Beginning January 1, 2002, for non-price cap local exchange carriers,
line-side port costs shall be assigned to the Common Line rate element. Such
amount shall be determined after any local switching support has been
removed from the interstate Local Switching revenue requirement. Non-price
cap local exchange carriers may use thirty percent of the interstate Local
Switching revenue requirement, minus any local switching support, as a proxy
for allocating line port costs to the Common Line category.
(e) COE Category 4 (Circuit Equipment) shall be apportioned among the
interexchange category and the Common Line, Transport, and Special Access
elements. COE Category 4 shall be apportioned in the same proportions as the
associated Cable and Wireless Facilities; except that any DS1/voice-grade
multiplexer investment associated with analog local switches and assigned to
the local transport category by this section shall be reallocated to the
local switching category.
[ 52 FR 37312 , Oct. 6, 1987, as amended at 57 FR 54722 , Nov. 20, 1992; 58 FR 30995 , May 28, 1993; 62 FR 31938 , June 11, 1997; 66 FR 59732 , Nov. 30, 2001]
Goto Section: 69.305 | 69.307
Goto Year: 2007 |
2009
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