1、15 Federal Communications Commission Pt. 51 conformance with, the filing proce-dures for the annual reports required by paragraph (a) of this section. (i) Carriers filing quarterly reports shall include in those reports only their provision of switched, facilities- based telephone service and switch
2、ed, facilities resale telephone service. (ii) The quarterly reports required by paragraph (b)(1) of this section shall be filed with the Commission no later than April 30 for the prior January through March quarter; no later than July 31 for the prior April through June quarter; no later than Octobe
3、r 31 for the prior July through September quarter; and no later than January 31 for the prior October through Decem-ber period. (c) Each common carrier engaged in the resale of international switched services that is affiliated with a for-eign carrier that has sufficient market power on the foreign
4、end of an inter-national route to affect competition adversely in the U.S. market and that collects settlement payments from U.S. carriers shall file a quarterly version of the report required in para-graph (a) of this section for its switched resale services on the domi-nant route within 90 days fr
5、om the end of each calendar quarter. Commercial Mobile Radio Service (CMRS) carriers, as defined in 20.9 of this chapter, are not required to file reports pursuant to this paragraph. For purposes of this paragraph, affiliated and foreign carrier are defined in 63.09 of this chapter. 57 FR 8580, Mar.
6、 11, 1992, as amended at 60 FR 5333, Jan. 27, 1995; 62 FR 5541, Feb. 6, 1997; 62 FR 45761, Aug. 29, 1997; 64 FR 19061, Apr. 19, 1999; 66 FR 67112, Dec. 28, 2001; 67 FR 13225, Mar. 21, 2002; 67 FR 45390, July 9, 2002 43.72 Reserved 43.82 International circuit status re-ports. (a) Each facilities-base
7、d common car-rier engaged in providing international telecommunications service between the area comprising the continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, and off- shore U.S. points and any country or point outside that area shall file a cir-cuit status report with the Chief, Inter-national Bureau,
8、not later than March 31 each year showing the status of its circuits used to provide international services as of December 31 of the pre-ceding calendar year. (b) The information contained in the reports shall include the total number of activated and the total number of idle circuits by the categor
9、ies of sub-marine cable, satellite and terrestrial facilities to geographic points outside the United States for the services des-ignated by the Chief, International Bu-reau. (c) The information required under this section shall be furnished in con-formance with instructions and report-ing requireme
10、nts prepared under the direction of the Chief, International Bureau, prepared and published as a manual. (d) Authority is hereby delegated to the Chief, International Bureau to pre-pare instructions and reporting re-quirements for the filing of the annual international circuit status reports. 60 FR
11、51368, Oct. 2, 1995 PART 51INTERCONNECTION Subpart AGeneral Information Sec. 51.1 Basis and purpose. 51.3 Applicability to negotiated agree-ments. 51.5 Terms and definitions. Subpart BTelecommunications Carriers 51.100 General duty. Subpart CObligations of All Local Exchange Carriers 51.201 Resale.
12、51.203 Number portability. 51.205 Dialing parity: General. 51.207 Local dialing parity. 51.209 Toll dialing parity. 51.213 Toll dialing parity implementation plans. 51.215 Dialing parity: Cost recovery. 51.217 Nondiscriminatory access: Telephone numbers, operator services, directory as-sistance serv
13、ices, and directory listings. 51.219 Access to rights of way. 51.221 Reciprocal compensation. 51.223 Application of additional require-ments. 51.230 Presumption of acceptability for de-ployment of an advanced services loop technology. 51.231 Provision of information on advanced services deployment.
14、VerDate Mar2010 13:48 Nov 09, 2010 Jkt 220202 PO 00000 Frm 00025 Fmt 8010 Sfmt 8010 Y:SGML220202.XXX 220202erowe on DSK5CLS3C1PROD with CFRProvided by IHSNot for ResaleNo reproduction or networking permitted without license from IHS-,-,-16 47 CFR Ch. I (10110 Edition) Pt. 51 51.232 Binder group mana
15、gement. 51.233 Significant degradation of services caused by deployment of advanced serv-ices. Subpart DAdditional 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
16、network elements. 51.309 Use of unbundled network elements. 51.311 Nondiscriminatory access to unbundled network elements. 51.313 Just, reasonable and nondiscrim-inatory terms and conditions for the pro-vision of unbundled network elements. 51.315 Combination of unbundled network elements. 51.316 Co
17、nversion of unbundled network ele-ments and services. 51.317 Standards for requiring the unbundling of network elements. 51.318 Eligibility criteria for access to cer-tain unbundled network elements. 51.319 Specific unbundling requirements. 51.320 Assumption of responsibility by the Commission. 51.3
18、21 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 no-tice requirement. 51.327 Notice of network changes: Content of notice. 51.329 Notice o
19、f 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 ob-jections to retirement of copper loops or copper subloops. 51.335 Notice of network changes: Confiden-tial or proprietar
20、y information. Subpart EExemptions, Suspensions, and Modifications of Requirements of Sec-tion 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 FPricing of Elements 51.501 Scope. 51.503
21、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. Subpar
22、t GResale 51.601 Scope of resale rules. 51.603 Resale obligation of all local ex-change 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 o
23、n resale. 51.615 Withdrawal of services. 51.617 Assessment of end user common line charge on resellers. Subpart HReciprocal Compensation for Transport and Termination of Tele-communications Traffic 51.701 Scope of transport and termination pricing rules. 51.703 Reciprocal compensation obligation of
24、LECs. 51.705 Incumbent LECs rates for transport and termination. 51.707 Default proxies for incumbent LECs transport and termination rates. 51.709 Rate structure for transport and ter-mination. 51.711 Symmetrical reciprocal compensa-tion. 51.713 Bill-and-keep arrangements for recip-rocal compensatio
25、n. 51.715 Interim transport and termination pricing. 51.717 Renegotiation of existing non-recip-rocal arrangements. Subpart IProcedures for Implementation of Section 252 of the Act 51.801 Commission action upon a state com-missions failure to act to carry out its responsibility under section 252 of
26、the Act. 51.803 Procedures for Commission notifica-tion of a state commissions failure to act. 51.805 The Commissions authority over pro-ceedings and matters. 51.807 Arbitration and mediation of agree-ments by the Commission pursuant to section 252(e)(5) of the Act. 51.809 Availability of provisions
27、 of agree-ments to other telecommunications car-riers under section 252(i) of the Act. AUTHORITY: Sections 15, 7, 20105, 20709, 218, 22527, 25154, 256, 271, 303(r), 332, 48 Stat. 1070, as amended, 1077; 47 U.S.C. 15155, 157, VerDate Mar2010 13:48 Nov 09, 2010 Jkt 220202 PO 00000 Frm 00026 Fmt 8010 S
28、fmt 8010 Y:SGML220202.XXX 220202erowe on DSK5CLS3C1PROD with CFRProvided by IHSNot for ResaleNo reproduction or networking permitted without license from IHS-,-,-17 Federal Communications Commission 51.5 20105, 20709, 218, 22527, 25154, 256, 271, 303(r), 332, 47 U.S.C. 157 note, unless otherwise not
29、ed. SOURCE: 61 FR 45619, Aug. 29, 1996, unless otherwise noted. Subpart AGeneral Information 51.1 Basis and purpose. (a) Basis. These rules are issued pur-suant to the Communications Act of 1934, as amended. (b) Purpose. The purpose of these rules is to implement sections 251 and 252 of the Communic
30、ations Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. 251 and 252. 51.3 Applicability to negotiated agreements. To the extent provided in section 252(e)(2)(A) of the Act, a state commis-sion shall have authority to approve an interconnection agreement adopted by negotiation even if the terms of the agreement do
31、 not comply with the re-quirements of this part. 51.5 Terms and definitions. Terms used in this part have the fol-lowing meanings: Act. The Communications Act of 1934, as amended. Advanced intelligent network. Ad-vanced intelligent network is a tele-communications network architecture in which call
32、processing, call routing, and network management are provided by means of centralized databases lo-cated at points in an incumbent local exchange carriers network. Advanced services. The term ad-vanced services is defined as high speed, switched, broadband, wireline telecommunications capability tha
33、t enables users to originate and receive high-quality voice, data, graphics or video telecommunications using any technology. Arbitration, final offer. Final offer arbi-tration is a procedure under which each party submits a final offer concerning the issues subject to arbitration, and the arbitrato
34、r selects, without modi-fication, one of the final offers by the parties to the arbitration or portions of both such offers. Entire package final offer arbitration, is a procedure under which the arbitrator must select, with-out modification, the entire proposal submitted by one of the parties to th
35、e arbitration. Issue-by-issue final offer arbitration, is a procedure under which the arbitrator must select, with-out modification, on an issue-by-issue basis, one of the proposals submitted by the parties to the arbitration. Billing. Billing involves the provision of appropriate usage data by one
36、tele-communications carrier to another to facilitate customer billing with attend-ant acknowledgements and status re-ports. It also involves the exchange of information between telecommuni-cations carriers to process claims and adjustments. Binder or binder group. Copper pairs bundled together, gene
37、rally in groups of 25, 50 or 100. Business line. A business line is an in-cumbent LEC-owned switched access line used to serve a business customer, whether by the incumbent LEC itself or by a competitive LEC that leases the line from the incumbent LEC. The number of business lines in a wire cen-ter
38、shall equal the sum of all incum-bent LEC business switched access lines, plus the sum of all UNE loops connected to that wire center, includ-ing UNE loops provisioned in combina-tion with other unbundled elements. Among these requirements, business line tallies: (1) Shall include only those access
39、lines connecting end-user customers with incumbent LEC end-offices for switched services, (2) Shall not include non-switched special access lines, (3) Shall account for ISDN and other digital access lines by counting each 64 kbps-equivalent as one line. For exam-ple, a DS1 line corresponds to 24 64
40、kbps-equivalents, and therefore to 24 business lines. Commercial Mobile Radio Service (CMRS). CMRS has the same meaning as that term is defined in 20.3 of this chapter. Commingling. Commingling means the connecting, attaching, or otherwise linking of an unbundled network ele-ment, or a combination o
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42、0202erowe on DSK5CLS3C1PROD with CFRProvided by IHSNot for ResaleNo reproduction or networking permitted without license from IHS-,-,-18 47 CFR Ch. I (10110 Edition) 51.5 network element, or a combination of unbundled network elements, with one or more such facilities or services. Commingle means th
43、e act of commin-gling. Commission. Commission refers to the Federal Communications Commission. Day. Day means calendar day. Dialing parity. The term dialing parity means that a person that is not an af-filiate of a local exchange carrier is able to provide telecommunications services in such a manne
44、r that cus-tomers have the ability to route auto-matically, without the use of any ac-cess code, their telecommunications to the telecommunications service pro-vider of the customers designation from among 2 or more telecommuni-cations service providers (including such local exchange carrier). Direc
45、tory assistance service. Directory assistance service includes, but is not limited to, making available to cus-tomers, upon request, information con-tained in directory listings. Directory listings. Directory listings are any information: (1) Identifying the listed names of subscribers of a telecomm
46、unications carrier and such subscribers telephone numbers, addresses, or primary adver-tising classifications (as such classi-fications are assigned at the time of the establishment of such service), or any combination of such listed names, numbers, addresses or classifications; and (2) That the tel
47、ecommunications car-rier or an affiliate has published, caused to be published, or accepted for publication in any directory format. Downstream database. A downstream database is a database owned and oper-ated by an individual carrier for the purpose of providing number port-ability in conjunction w
48、ith other func-tions and services. Enhanced extended link. An enhanced extended link or EEL consists of a com-bination of an unbundled loop and unbundled dedicated transport, to-gether with any facilities, equipment, or functions necessary to combine those network elements. Equipment necessary for i
49、nterconnec-tion or access to unbundled network ele-ments. For purposes of section 251(c)(2) of the Act, the equipment used to interconnect with an incumbent local exchange carriers network for the transmission and routing of telephone exchange service, exchange access serv-ice, or both. For the purposes of sec-tion 251(c)(3) of the Act, the equipment used to gain access to an incumbent local exchange carriers unbundled net-work e
