Sec. 51.211  Toll dialing parity implementation schedule.

    (a) A LEC that does not begin providing in-region, interLATA or in-
region, interstate toll services in a state before February 8, 1999, 
must implement intraLATA and interLATA toll dialing parity throughout 
that state on February 8, 1999 or an earlier date as the state may 
determine, consistent with section 271(e)(2)(B) of the Communications 
Act of 1934, as amended, to be in the public interest.
    (b) A Bell Operating Company (BOC) that provides in-region, 
interLATA toll services in a state before February 8, 1999 shall provide 
intraLATA toll dialing parity throughout that state coincident with its 
provision of in-region, interLATA toll services.
    (c) A LEC that is not a BOC that begins providing in-region, 
interLATA or in-region, interstate toll services in a state before 
August 8, 1997, shall implement intraLATA and interLATA toll dialing 
parity throughout that state by August 8, 1997. If the LEC is unable to 
comply with the August 8, 1997 implementation deadline, the LEC must 
notify the Commission's Common Carrier Bureau by May 8, 1997. In the 
notification, the LEC must state its justification for noncompliance and 
must set forth the date by which it proposes to implement intraLATA and 
interLATA toll dialing parity.
    (d) A LEC that is not a BOC that begins providing in-region, 
interLATA or in-region, interstate toll services in a state on or after 
August 8, 1997, but before February 8, 1999 shall implement intraLATA 
and interLATA toll dialing parity throughout that state no later than 
the date on which it begins providing in-region, interLATA or in-region, 
interstate toll services.
    (e) Notwithstanding the requirements of paragraphs (a) through (d) 
of this section, a LEC shall implement toll dialing parity under a state 
order as described below:
    (1) If the state issued a dialing parity order by December 19, 1995 
requiring a BOC to implement toll dialing parity in advance of the dates 
established by these rules, the BOC must implement toll dialing parity 
in accordance with the implementation dates established by the state 
order.
    (2) If the state issued a dialing parity order by August 8, 1996 
requiring a LEC that is not a BOC to implement toll dialing parity in 
advance of the dates established by these rules, the LEC must implement 
toll dialing parity in accordance with the implementation dates 
established by the state order.
    (f) For LECs that are not Bell Operating Companies, the term in-
region, interLATA toll service, as used in this section and Sec. 51.213, 
includes the provision of toll services outside of the LEC's study area.

[ 61 FR 47349 , Sept. 6, 1996]