1、402 47 CFR Ch. I (10110 Edition) 68.614 Communications Commission and the U.S. Customs Service for their respec-tive enforcement purposes, and of con-sumers for purposes of identifying the responsible party and model number. 67 FR 57182, Sept. 9, 2002 68.614 Oppositions and appeals. (a) Oppositions
2、filed in response to the Administrative Council for Ter-minal Attachments public notice of technical criteria proposed for publica-tion must be received by the Adminis-trative Council for Terminal Attach-ments within 30 days of public notice to be considered. Oppositions to pro-posed technical crite
3、ria shall be ad-dressed through the appeals procedures of the authoring standards develop-ment organization and of the American National Standards Institute. If these procedures have been exhausted, the aggrieved party shall file its opposition with the Commission for de novo re-view. (b) As an alte
4、rnative, oppositions to proposed technical criteria may be filed directly with the Commission for de novo review within the 30 day public notice period. PART 69ACCESS CHARGES Subpart AGeneral Sec. 69.1 Application of access charges. 69.2 Definitions. 69.3 Filing of access service tariffs. 69.4 Charg
5、es to be filed. 69.5 Persons to be assessed. Subpart BComputation of Charges 69.101 General. 69.104 End user common line for non-price cap incumbent local exchange carriers. 69.105 Carrier common line for non-price cap local exchange carriers. 69.106 Local switching. 69.108 Transport rate benchmark.
6、 69.109 Information. 69.110 Entrance facilities. 69.111 Tandem-switched transport and tan-dem charge. 69.112 Direct-trunked transport. 69.113 Non-premium charges for MTS-WATS equivalent services. 69.114 Special access. 69.115 Special access surcharges. 69.118 Traffic sensitive switched services. 69.
7、119 Basic service element expedited ap-proval process. 69.120 Line information database. 69.121 Connection charges for expanded interconnection. 69.123 Density pricing zones for special ac-cess and switched transport. 69.124 Interconnection charge. 69.125 Dedicated signalling transport. 69.128 Billi
8、ng name and address. 69.129 Signalling for tandem switching. 69.130 Line port costs in excess of basic ana-log service. 69.131 Universal service end user charges. Subpart CComputation of Charges for Price Cap Local Exchange Carriers 69.151 Applicability. 69.152 End user common line for price cap loc
9、al exchange carriers. 69.153 Presubscribed interexchange carrier charge (PICC). 69.154 Per-minute carrier common line charge. 69.155 Per-minute residual interconnection charge. 69.156 Marketing expenses. 69.157 Line port costs in excess of basic, analog service. 69.158 Universal service and user cha
10、rges. Subpart DApportionment of Net Investment 69.301 General. 69.302 Net investment. 69.303 Information origination/termination equipment (IOT). 69.304 Subscriber line cable and wire facili-ties. 69.305 Carrier cable and wire facilities (C 58 FR 41189, Aug. 3, 1993; 62 FR 40463, July 29, 1997 69.2
11、Definitions. For purposes of the part: (a) Access minutes or Access minutes of use is that usage of exchange facilities in interstate or foreign service for the purpose of calculating chargeable usage. On the originating end of an interstate or foreign call, usage is to be measured from the time the
12、 origi-nating end users call is delivered by the telephone company and acknowl-edged as received by the interexchange carriers facilities connected with the originating exchange. On the termi-nating end of an interstate or foreign call, usage is to be measured from the time the call is received by t
13、he end user in the terminating exchange. Tim-ing of usage at both the originating and terminating end of an interstate or foreign call shall terminate when the calling or called party disconnects, whichever event is recognized first in the originating and terminating end exchanges, as applicable. Ve
14、rDate Mar2010 13:48 Nov 09, 2010 Jkt 220202 PO 00000 Frm 00413 Fmt 8010 Sfmt 8010 Y:SGML220202.XXX 220202erowe on DSK5CLS3C1PROD with CFRProvided by IHSNot for ResaleNo reproduction or networking permitted without license from IHS-,-,-404 47 CFR Ch. I (10110 Edition) 69.2 (b) Access service includes
15、 services and facilities provided for the origination or termination of any interstate or for-eign telecommunication. (c) Annual revenue requirement means the sum of the return component and the expense component. (d) Association means the telephone company association described in sub-part G of thi
16、s part. (e) Big Three Expenses are the com-bined expense groups comprising: Plant Specific Operations Expense, Accounts 6110, 6120, 6210, 6220, 6230, 6310 and 6410; Plant Nonspecific Operations Expenses, Accounts 6510, 6530 and 6540, and Cus-tomer Operations Expenses, Accounts 6610 and 6620. (f) Big
17、 Three Expense Factors are the ratios of the sum of Big Three Ex-penses apportioned to each element or category to the combined Big Three Expenses. (g) Cable and wire facilities includes all equipment or facilities that are de-scribed as cable and wire facilities in the Separations Manual and includ
18、ed in Account 2410. (h) Carrier cable and wire facilities means all cable and wire facilities that are not subscriber line cable and wire facilities. (i) Central Office Equipment or COE in-cludes all equipment or facilities that are described as Central Office Equip-ment in the Separations Manual an
19、d in-cluded in Accounts 2210, 2220 and 2230. (j) Corporate operations expenses are included in General and Administrative Expenses (Account 6720). (k) Customer operations expenses in-clude Marketing and Services expenses in Accounts 6610 and 6620, respectively. (l) Direct expense means expenses that
20、 are attributable to a particular cat-egory or categories of tangible invest-ment described in subpart D of this part and includes: (1) Plant Specific Operations ex-penses in Accounts 6110, 6120, 6210, 6220, 6230, 6310 and 6410; and (2) Plant Nonspecific Operations Ex-penses in Accounts 6510, 6530,
21、6540 and 6560. (m) End user means any customer of an interstate or foreign telecommuni-cations service that is not a carrier ex-cept that a carrier other than a tele-phone company shall be deemed to be an end user when such carrier uses a telecommunications service for admin-istrative purposes and a
22、 person or enti-ty that offers telecommunications services exclusively as a reseller shall be deemed to be an end user if all re-sale transmissions offered by such re-seller originate on the premises of such reseller. (n) Entry switch means the telephone company switch in which a transport line or t
23、runk terminates. (o) Expense component means the total expenses and income charges for an annual period that are attributable to a particular element or category. (p) Expenses include allowable ex-penses in the Uniform System of Ac-counts, part 32, apportioned to inter-state or international service
24、s pursu-ant to the Separations Manual and al-lowable income charges apportioned to interstate and international services pursuant to the Separations Manual. (q) General support facilities include buildings, land, vehicles, aircraft, work equipment, furniture, office equipment and general purpose com
25、puters as de-scribed in the Separations Manual and included in Account 2110. (r) Information origination/termination equipment includes all equipment or fa-cilities that are described as informa-tion origination/termination equip-ment in the Separations Manual and in Account 2310 except information
26、origi-nation/termination equipment that is used by telephone companies in their own operations. (s) Interexchange or the interexchange category includes services or facilities provided as an integral part of inter-state or foreign telecommunications that is not described as access serv-ice for purpo
27、ses of this part. (t) Level I Contributors. Telephone companies that are not association Common Line tariff participants, file their own Common Line tariffs effec-tive April 1, 1989, and had a lower than average Common Line revenue require-ment per minute of use in 1988 and thus were net contributor
28、s (i.e., had a nega-tive net balance) to the association Common Line pool in 1988. (u) Level I Receivers. Telephone com-panies that are not association Com-mon Line tariff participants, file their own Common Line tariffs effective VerDate Mar2010 13:48 Nov 09, 2010 Jkt 220202 PO 00000 Frm 00414 Fmt
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30、 of use in 1988 and thus were net receivers (i.e., had a positive net balance) from the association Com-mon Line Pool in 1988. (v) Level II Contributors. A telephone company or group of affiliated tele-phone companies with fewer than 300,000 access lines and less than $150 million in annual operatin
31、g revenues that is not an association Common Line tariff participant, that files its own Common Line tariff effective July 1, 1990, and that had a lower than aver-age Common Line revenue requirement per minute of use in 1988 and thus was a net contributor (i.e., had a negative net balance) to the as
32、sociation Com-mon Line pool in 1988. (w) Level II Receivers. A telephone company or group of affiliated tele-phone companies with fewer than 300,000 access lines and less than $150 million in annual operating revenues that is not an association Common Line tariff participant, that files its own Comm
33、on Line tariff effective July 1, 1990, and that had a higher than av-erage Common Line revenue require-ment per minute of use in 1988 and thus was a net receiver (i.e., had a positive net balance) from the association Com-mon Line pool in 1988. (x) Line or Trunk includes, but is not limited to, tran
34、smission media such as radio, satellite, wire, cable and fiber optic cable means of transmission. (y) Long term support (LTS) means funds that are provided pursuant to 54.303 of part 54. (z) Net investment means allowable original cost investment in Accounts 2001 through 2003, 1220 and the invest-me
35、nts in nonaffiliated companies in-cluded in Account 1410, that has been apportioned to interstate and foreign services pursuant to the Separations Manual from which depreciation, am-ortization and other reserves attrib-utable to such investment that has been apportioned to interstate and for-eign se
36、rvices pursuant to the Separa-tions Manual have been subtracted and to which working capital that is attrib-utable to interstate and foreign serv-ices has been added. (aa) Operating taxes include all taxes in Account 7200; (bb) Origination of a service that is switched in a Class 4 switch or an inte
37、rexchange switch that performs an equivalent function ends when the transmission enters such switch and termination of such a service begins when the transmission leaves such a switch, except that; (1) Switching in a Class 4 switch or transmission between Class 4 switches that is not deemed to be in
38、terexchange for purposes of the Modified Final Judgement entered August 24, 1982, in United States v Western Electric Co., D.C. Civil Action No. 820192, will be origi-nation or termination for purposes of this part; and (2) Origination and Termination does not include the use of any part of a line,
39、trunk or switch that is not owned or leased by a telephone company. (cc) Origination of any service other than a service that is switched in a Class 4 switch or a switch that per-forms an equivalent function ends and termination of any such service be-gins at a point of demarcation that corresponds
40、with the point of demarca-tion that is used for a service that is switched in a Class 4 switch or a switch that performs an equivalent function. (dd) Private line means a line that is used exclusively for an interexchange service other than MTS, WATS or an MTS-WATS equivalent service, includ-ing a l
41、ine that is used at the closed end of an FX WATS or CCSA service or any service that is substantially equivalent to a CCSA service. (ee) Public telephone is a telephone provided by a telephone company through which an end user may origi-nate interstate or foreign tele-communications for which he pay
42、s with coins or by credit card, collect or third number billing procedures. (ff) Return component means net in-vestment attributable to a particular element or category multiplied by the authorized annual rate of return. (gg) Subscriber line cable and wire fa-cilities means all lines or trunks on th
43、e subscriber side of a Class 5 or end office switch, including lines or trunks that do not terminate in such a switch, ex-cept lines or trunks that connect an interexchange carrier. (hh) Telephone company or Local ex-change carrier as used in this part VerDate Mar2010 13:48 Nov 09, 2010 Jkt 220202 P
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45、) of the 1934 Act as amended by the 1996 Act. (ii) Transitional support (TRS) means funds provided by telephone companies that are not association Common Line tariff participants, but were net con-tributors to the association Common Line pool in 1988, to telephone compa-nies that are not association
46、 Common Line tariff participants and were net receivers from the association Common Line pool in 1988. (jj) Unit of capacity means the capa-bility to transmit one conversation. (kk) WATS access line means a line or trunk that is used exclusively for WATS service. (ll) Equal access investment and equ
47、al access expenses mean equal access in-vestment and expenses as defined for purposes of the part 36 separations rules. (mm) Basic service elements are op-tional unbundled features that en-hanced service providers may require or find useful in the provision of en-hanced services, as defined in Amend
48、-ments of part 69 of the Commissions rules relating to the Creation of Access Charge Subelements for Open Network Architecture, Report and Order, 6 FCC Rcd llll, CC Docket No. 8979, FCC 91186 (1991). (nn) Dedicated signalling transport means transport of out-of-band signal-ling information between a
49、n inter-exchange carrier or other persons com-mon channel signalling network and a telephone companys signalling trans-port point on facilities dedicated to the use of a single customer. (oo) Direct-trunked transport means transport on circuits dedicated to the use of a single interexchange carrier or other person, without switching at the tandem, (1) Between the serving wire center and the end office, or (2) Between two customer-designated te
