Goto Section: 51.713 | 51.717 | Table of Contents
FCC 51.715
Revised as of December 4, 2012
Goto Year:2011 |
2013
§ 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 Non-Access
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 Non-Access 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 § 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 Non-Access
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 not established
transport and termination rates based on forward-looking economic cost
studies, an incumbent LEC shall set interim transport and termination
rates either at the default ceilings specified in § 51.705(c) or in
accordance with a bill-and-keep methodology as defined in § 51.713.
(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 § 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
§ 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 Non-Access
Telecommunications Traffic in an interim arrangement differ from the
rates established by a state commission pursuant to § 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 § 51.705.
[ 61 FR 45619 , Aug. 29, 1996, as amended at 76 FR 73856 , Nov. 29, 2011]
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Goto Section: 51.713 | 51.717
Goto Year: 2011 |
2013
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