Goto Section: 36.124 | 36.126 | Table of Contents
FCC 36.125
Revised as of October 2, 2015
Goto Year:2014 |
2016
§ 36.125 Local switching equipment—Category 3.
(a) Local switching equipment is included in accounts 2210, 2211, and 2212.
It comprises all central office switching equipment not assigned other
categories. Examples of local switching equipment are basic switching train,
toll connecting trunk equipment, interlocal trunks, tandem trunks,
terminating senders used for toll completion, toll completing train, call
reverting equipment, weather and time of day service equipment, and
switching equipment at electronic analog or digital remote line locations.
Equipment used for the identification, recording and timing of customer
dialed charge traffic, or switched private line traffic (e.g. transmitters,
recorders, call identity indexers, perforators, ticketers, detectors,
mastertimes) switchboards used solely for recording of calling telephone
numbers in connection with customer dialed charge traffic, or switched
private line traffic (or both) is included in this local switching category.
Equipment provided and used primarily for operator dialed toll or customer
dialed charge traffic except such equipment included in Category 2 Tandem
Switching Equipment is also included in this local switching category. This
includes such items as directors translators, sender registers, out trunk
selectors and facilities for toll intercepting and digit absorption. Special
services switching equipment which primarily performs the switching function
for special services (e.g. switching equipment, TWX concentrators and
switchboards) is also included in this local switching category.
(1) Local office, as used in § 36.125, comprises one or more local switching
entities of the same equipment type (e.g., step-by-step, No. 5 Crossbar) in
an individual location. A local switching entity comprises that local
central office equipment of the same type which has a common intermediate
distributing frame, market group or other separately identifiable switching
unit serving one or more prefixes (NNX codes).
(2) A host/remote local switching complex is composed of an electronic
analog or digital host office and all of its remote locations. A host/remote
local switching complex is treated as one local office. The current
jurisdictional definition of an exchange will apply.
(3) Dial equipment minutes of use (DEM) is defined as the minutes of holding
time of the originating and terminating local switching equipment. Holding
time is defined in the Glossary.
(4) The interstate allocation factor is the percentage of local switching
investment apportioned to the interstate jurisdiction.
(5) The interstate DEM factor is the ratio of the interstate DEM to the
total DEM. A weighted interstate DEM factor is the product of multiplying a
weighting factor, as defined in paragraph (f) of this section, to the
interstate DEM factor. The state DEM factor is the ratio of the state DEM to
the total DEM.
(b) Beginning January 1, 1993, Category 3 investment for study areas with
50,000 or more access lines is apportioned to the interstate jurisdiction on
the basis of the interstate DEM factor. Category 3 investment for study
areas with 50,000 or more access lines is apportioned to the state
jurisdiction on the basis of the state DEM factor.
(c)-(e) [Reserved]
(f) Beginning January 1, 1998, for study areas with fewer than 50,000 access
lines, Category 3 investment is apportioned to the interstate jurisdiction
by the application of an interstate allocation factor that is the lesser of
either .85 or the sum of the interstate DEM factor specified in paragraph
(a)(5) of this section, and the difference between the 1996 interstate DEM
factor and the 1996 interstate DEM factor multiplied by a weighting factor
as determined by the table below. The Category 3 investment that is not
assigned to the interstate jurisdiction pursuant to this paragraph is
assigned to the state jurisdiction.
Number of access lines in service in study area Weighting
factor
0-10,000 3.0
10,001-20,000 2.5
20,001-50,000 2.0
50,001-or above 1.0
(g) For purposes of this section, an access line is a line that does not
include WATS access lines, special access lines or private lines.
(h) Effective July 1, 2001, through June 30, 2017, study areas subject to
price cap regulation, pursuant to § 61.41 of this chapter, shall assign the
average balances of Accounts 2210, 2211, and 2212 to Category 3, Local
Switching Equipment, based on the relative percentage assignment of the
average balances of Account 2210, 2211, 2212 and 2215 to Category 3, during
the twelve month period ending December 31, 2000.
(i) Effective July 1, 2001, through June 30, 2017, all study areas shall
apportion costs in Category 3, Local Switching Equipment, among the
jurisdictions using relative dial equipment minutes of use for the twelve
month period ending December 31, 2000.
(j) If the number of a study area's access lines increases such that, under
paragraph (f) of this section, the weighted interstate DEM factor for 1997
or any successive year would be reduced, that lowered weighted interstate
DEM factor shall be applied to the study area's 1996 unweighted interstate
DEM factor to derive a new local switching support factor. If the number of
a study area's access lines decreases or has decreased such that, under
paragraph (f) of this section, the weighted interstate DEM factor for 2010
or any successive year would be raised, that higher weighted interstate DEM
factor shall be applied to the study area's 1996 unweighted interstate DEM
factor to derive a new local switching support factor.
[ 52 FR 17229 , May 6, 1987, as amended at 53 FR 33011 , 33012, Aug. 29, 1988;
62 FR 32946 , June 17, 1997; 63 FR 2124 , Jan. 13, 1998; 66 FR 33205 , June 21,
2001; 69 FR 12549 , Mar. 17, 2004; 71 FR 65745 , Nov. 9, 2006; 75 FR 17874 ,
Apr. 8, 2010; 75 FR 30301 , June 1, 2010; 76 FR 30841 , May 27, 2011; 79 FR 36236 , June 26, 2014]
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Goto Section: 36.124 | 36.126
Goto Year: 2014 |
2016
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