FCC Web Documents citing 51.609

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• http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1863A1.doc http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1863A1.pdf http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-06-1863A1.txt
  • have access to the resale services and ensure that they are offered on a reasonable and nondiscriminatory basis as required by section 251(b)(1) and 251(c)(4). Legal Basis: 47 U.S.C. 251, 252. Section Number and Title: 51.601 Scope of Resale Rules. 51.603 Resale obligation of all local exchange carriers. 51.605 Additional obligations of incumbent local exchange carriers. 51.607 Wholesale pricing standard. 51.609 Determination of avoided retail costs. 51.611 Interim wholesale rates. 51.613 Restrictions on resale. 51.615 Withdrawal of services. 51.617 Assessment of end user common line charge on resellers. SUBPART I -- PROCEDURES FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF SECTION 252 OF THE ACT Brief Description: This subpart establishes regulations to carry out our obligations under section 252(e)(5), which authorizes the Commission to preempt a
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  • revising all references to ``Each local exchange carrier'' in paragraphs (f) through (j) to read ``Each incumbent local exchange carrier''. (k) * * * Part 51 of Title 47 of the C.F.R. is amended as follows: PART 51 - INTERCONNECTION Subpart G Resale The authority citation for Part 51 continues to read as follows: Authority: 47 U.S.C. §161 2. Section 51.609 Determination of avoided retail costs is amended by revising paragraphs (c)(1),(2) and (3) and (d) to read as follows: § 51.609 Determination of avoided retail costs. * * * * * ( c) * * * (1) Include, as direct costs, the costs recorded in USOA accounts 6611(product management and sales), 6613 (product advertising) and 6620 (Services) (Secs. 32.6611, 32.6613
• http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-03-224A1.doc http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-03-224A1.pdf http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-03-224A1.txt
  • 26412-14, paras. 186-190 (2002) (Qwest 9-State 271 Order) (Colorado Public Utilities Commission established UNE rates (for the second time) in a 25-month proceeding). 47 U.S.C. § 251(c)(4). 47 U.S.C. § 252(d)(3). Compare 47 U.S.C. §§ 251(c)(4)(A), 252(d)(3) (resale standard) with 47 U.S.C. §§ 251(c)(3), 252(d)(1) (UNE standard). Iowa Utilities II, 219 F.3d at 754-756, 765 (vacating rules 47 C.F.R. §§ 51.609, 51.611), rev'd on other grounds sub nom. Verizon v. FCC, 535 U.S. 1646. Cost of service ratemaking is different from price caps and other forms of price regulation that adjust prices from one period to the next based on factors other than a carrier's cost of providing service, such as anticipated productivity and inflation. See Verizon v. FCC, 535 U.S.
• http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-03-326A2.pdf http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-03-326A2.txt
  • that ìcosts associated with retail servicesî shall ìnot be included.î). 55 47 U.S.C. ß 251(c)(4)(A). 56 See Wisconsin Phase II Comments, December 21, 2000, at 7 and Attachment A. 57 Reply Comments of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio in CC Docket Nos. 00-199, 97-212, 80-286, and 99-301 in the Phase II Further Notice, at 8. 58 47 C.F.R. ß 51.609 (d). In determining avoided costs, the Commission requires that the direct costs recorded in the services accounts (Accounts 6621, 6622, and 6623). Indirect costs may be included in wholesale prices only to the extent that the ILEC proves to a state commission that specific costs in these accounts will be incurred and are not avoidable with respect to services sold
• http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-04-149A1.doc http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-04-149A1.pdf http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-04-149A1.txt
  • exchange carrier for billing and collection services. Subsidiary record categories shall be maintained in order that the entity may separately report interstate and intrastate amounts. Such subsidiary record categories shall be reported as required by Part 43 of this Commission's Rules and Regulations. Part 51 of title 47 of the C.F.R. is amended as follows: PART 51 - INTERCONNECTION Section 51.609 Determination of avoided retail costs is amended by revising paragraphs (c)(1), (c)(3), and (d) to read as follows: § 51.609 Determination of avoided retail costs. * * * * * (c) * * * (1) Include as direct costs, the costs recorded in USOA accounts 6611 (product management and sales), 6613 (product advertising), 6621 (call completion services), 6622, (number services),
• http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-96-325A1.pdf
  • structure standard. 51.509 Rate structure standards for specific elements. 51.511 Forward-looking economic cost per unit. 51.513 Proxies for forward-looking economic cost. 51.515 Application of access charges. Federal Communications Commission 96-325 B-8 Subpart G - Resale 51.601 Scope of resale rules. 51.603 Resale obligation of all local exchange carriers. 51.605 Additional obligations of incumbent local exchange carriers. 51.607 Wholesale pricing standard. 51.609 Determination of avoided retail costs. 51.611 Interim wholesale rates. 51.613 Restrictions on resale. 51.615 Withdrawal of services. 51.617 Assessment of end user common line charge on resellers. Subpart H - Reciprocal compensation for transport and termination of local telecommunications traffic 51.701 Scope of transport and termination pricing rules. 51.703 Reciprocal compensation obligation of LECs. 51.705 Incumbent LECs' rates for transport
• http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Common_Carrier/Orders/1996/fcc96325.pdf
  • structure standard. 51.509 Rate structure standards for specific elements. 51.511 Forward-looking economic cost per unit. 51.513 Proxies for forward-looking economic cost. 51.515 Application of access charges. Federal Communications Commission 96-325 B-8 Subpart G - Resale 51.601 Scope of resale rules. 51.603 Resale obligation of all local exchange carriers. 51.605 Additional obligations of incumbent local exchange carriers. 51.607 Wholesale pricing standard. 51.609 Determination of avoided retail costs. 51.611 Interim wholesale rates. 51.613 Restrictions on resale. 51.615 Withdrawal of services. 51.617 Assessment of end user common line charge on resellers. Subpart H - Reciprocal compensation for transport and termination of local telecommunications traffic 51.701 Scope of transport and termination pricing rules. 51.703 Reciprocal compensation obligation of LECs. 51.705 Incumbent LECs' rates for transport
• http://www.fcc.gov/ogc/documents/opinions/2000/96-3321.doc http://www.fcc.gov/ogc/documents/opinions/2000/96-3321.html
  • by the local exchange carrier." Pursuant to this section, the FCC promulgated 47 C.F.R. § 51.607 which excludes "avoided retail costs" from wholesale rates. "Avoided retail costs" are defined by the FCC as "those costs that reasonably can be avoided when an incumbent LEC provides a telecommunications service for resale at wholesale rates to a requesting carrier." 47 C.F.R. § 51.609(b). The petitioners challenge the FCC's interpretation of the term "avoided retail costs." The petitioners contend § 252(d)(3) plainly requires wholesale rates to reflect the ILECs' retail rates less those costs that an ILEC actually avoids when it loses its retail customers to a reselling competitor. However, under the FCC's definition of "avoided retail costs," the petitioners argue the FCC requires