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FCC 69.306
Revised as of December 4, 2012
Goto Year:2011 |
2013
§ 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
§ 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]
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