Table of Parts
Contents
Subpart A--General Information
§ 51.1 Basis and purpose.
§ 51.3 Applicability to negotiated agreements.
§ 51.5 Terms and definitions.
Subpart B--Telecommunications Carriers
§ 51.100 General duty.
Subpart C--Obligations of All Local Exchange Carriers
§ 51.201 Resale.
§ 51.203 Number portability.
§ 51.205 Dialing parity: General.
§ 51.207 Local dialing parity.
§ 51.217 Nondiscriminatory access: Telephone numbers, operator
services, directory assistance services, and directory listings.
§ 51.219 Access to rights of way.
§ 51.221 Reciprocal compensation.
§ 51.223 Application of additional requirements.
§ 51.230 Presumption of acceptability for deployment of an advanced
services loop technology.
§ 51.231 Provision of information on advanced services deployment.
§ 51.232 Binder group management.
§ 51.233 Significant degradation of services caused by deployment of
advanced services.
Subpart D--Additional Obligations of Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers
§ 51.301 Duty to negotiate.
§ 51.303 Preexisting agreements.
§ 51.305 Interconnection.
§ 51.307 Duty to provide access on an unbundled basis to network
elements.
§ 51.309 Use of unbundled network elements.
§ 51.311 Nondiscriminatory access to unbundled network elements.
§ 51.313 Just, reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms and conditions
for the provision of unbundled network elements.
§ 51.315 Combination of unbundled network elements.
§ 51.316 Conversion of unbundled network elements and services.
§ 51.317 Standards for requiring the unbundling of network elements.
§ 51.318 Eligibility criteria for access to certain unbundled network
elements.
§ 51.319 Specific unbundling requirements.
§ 51.320 Assumption of responsibility by the Commission.
§ 51.321 Methods of obtaining interconnection and access to unbundled
elements under section 251 of the Act.
§ 51.323 Standards for physical collocation and virtual collocation.
§ 51.325 Notice of network changes: Public notice requirement.
§ 51.327 Notice of network changes: Content of notice.
§ 51.329 Notice of network changes: Methods for providing notice.
§ 51.331 Notice of network changes: Timing of notice.
§ 51.333 Notice of network changes: Short term notice, objections
thereto and objections to copper retirement notices.
§ 51.335 Notice of network changes: Confidential or proprietary
information.
Subpart E--Exemptions, Suspensions, and Modifications of Requirements
of Section 251 of the Act
§ 51.401 State authority.
§ 51.403 Carriers eligible for suspension or modification under
section 251(f)(2) of the Act.
§ 51.405 Burden of proof.
Subpart F--Pricing of Elements
§ 51.501 Scope.
§ 51.503 General pricing standard.
§ 51.505 Forward-looking economic cost.
§ 51.507 General rate 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.
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
Telecommunications Traffic
§ 51.700 Purpose of this subpart.
§ 51.701 Scope of transport and termination pricing rules.
§ 51.703 Non-Access reciprocal compensation obligation of LECs.
§ 51.705 LECs' rates for transport and termination.
§ 51.707 [Reserved]
§ 51.709 Rate structure for transport and termination.
§ 51.711 Symmetrical reciprocal compensation.
§ 51.713 Bill-and-keep arrangements.
§ 51.715 Interim transport and termination pricing.
§ 51.717 [Reserved]
Subpart I--Procedures for Implementation of Section 252 of the Act
§ 51.801 Commission action upon a state commission's failure to act to
carry out its responsibility under section 252 of the Act.
§ 51.803 Procedures for Commission notification of a state
commission's failure to act.
§ 51.805 The Commission's authority over proceedings and matters.
§ 51.807 Arbitration and mediation of agreements by the Commission
pursuant to section 252(e)(5) of the Act.
§ 51.809 Availability of agreements to other telecommunications
carriers under section 252(i) of the Act.
Subpart J--Transitional Access Service Pricing
§ 51.901 Purpose and scope of transitional access service pricing
rules.
§ 51.903 Definitions.
§ 51.905 Implementation.
§ 51.907 Transition of price cap carrier access charges.
§ 51.909 Transition of rate-of-return carrier access charges.
§ 51.911 Access reciprocal compensation rates for competitive LECs.
§ 51.913 Transition for VoIP-PSTN traffic.
§ 51.914 Additional provisions applicable to Access Stimulation
traffic.
§ 51.915 Recovery mechanism for price cap carriers.
§ 51.917 Revenue recovery for Rate-of-Return Carriers.
§ 51.919 Reporting and monitoring.