Goto Section: 69.114 | 69.118 | Table of Contents
FCC 69.115
Revised as of December 4, 2012
Goto Year:2011 |
2013
§ 69.115 Special access surcharges.
(a) Pending the development of techniques accurately to measure usage
of exchange facilities that are interconnected by users with means of
interstate or foreign telecommunications, a surcharge that is expressed
in dollars and cents per line termination per month shall be assessed
upon users that subscribe to private line services or WATS services
that are not exempt from assessment pursuant to paragraph (e) of this
section.
(b) Such surcharge shall be computed to reflect a reasonable
approximation of the carrier usage charges which, assuming non-premium
interconnection, would have been paid for average interstate or foreign
usage of common lines, end office facilities, and transport facilities,
attributable to each Special Access line termination which is not
exempt from assessment pursuant to paragraph (e) of this section.
(c) If the association, carrier or carriers that file the tariff are
unable to estimate such average usage for a period ending May 31, 1985,
the surcharge for such period shall be twenty-five dollars ($25) per
line termination per month. As of June 30, 2000, these rates will
remain and be capped at the current levels until June 30, 2005.
(d) A telephone company may propose reasonable and nondiscriminatory
end user surcharges, to be filed in its federal access tariffs and to
be applied to the use of exchange facilities which are interconected by
users with means of interstate or foreign telecommunication which are
not provided by the telephone company, and which are not exempt from
assessment pursuant to paragraph (e) of this section. Telephone
companies which wish to avail themselves of this option must undertake
to use reasonable efforts to identify such means of interstate or
foreign telecommunication, and to assess end user surcharges in a
reasonable and nondiscriminatory manner.
(e) No special access surcharges shall be assessed for any of the
following terminations:
(1) The open end termination in a telephone company switch of an FX
line, including CCSA and CCSA-equivalent ONALs;
(2) Any termination of an analog channel that is used for radio or
television program transmission;
(3) Any termination of a line that is used for telex service;
(4) Any termination of a line that by nature of its operating
characteristics could not make use of common lines; and
(5) Any termination of a line that is subject to carrier usage charges
pursuant to § 69.5.
(6) Any termination of a line that the customer certifies to the
exchange carrier is not connected to a PBX or other device capable of
interconnecting a local exchange subscriber line with the private line
or WATS access line.
(47 U.S.C. 154 (i) and (j), 201, 202, 203, 205, 218 and 403 and 5
U.S.C. 553)
[ 48 FR 43019 , Sept. 21, 1983, as amended at 49 FR 7829 , Mar. 2, 1984;
51 FR 10841 , Mar. 31, 1986; 52 FR 8259 , Mar. 17, 1987; 65 FR 38701 ,
June 21, 2000]
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Goto Section: 69.114 | 69.118
Goto Year: 2011 |
2013
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