Goto Section: 51.713 | 51.717 | Table of Contents
FCC 51.715
Revised as of October 2, 2015
Goto Year:2014 |
2016
§ 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: 2014 |
2016
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