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FCC 61.42
Revised as of October 2, 2015
Goto Year:2014 | 2016
§ 61.42   Price cap baskets and service categories.

   (a)-(c) [Reserved]

   (d)  Each  price cap local exchange carrier shall establish baskets of
   services as follows:

   (1)  A  basket  for  the  common line, marketing, and certain residual
   interconnection charge interstate access elements as described in § § 69.115,
   69.152, 69.153, 69.154, 69.155, 69.156, and 69.157 of this chapter. For
   purposes of § § 61.41 through 61.49, this basket shall be referred to as the
   “CMT basket.”

   (2) A basket for traffic sensitive switched interstate access elements. For
   purposes of § § 61.41 through 61.49 of this chapter, this basket shall be
   referred to as the “traffic-sensitive basket.”

   (3) A basket for trunking services as described in § § 69.110, 69.111, 69.112,
   69.125(b), 69.129, and 69.155 of this chapter. For purposes of § § 61.41
   through 61.49, this basket shall be referred to as the “trunking basket.”

   (4)(i) To the extent that a price cap local exchange carrier specified in
   § 61.41(a)(2) or (a)(3) offers interstate interexchange services that are not
   classified as access services for the purpose of part 69 of this chapter,
   such exchange carrier shall establish a fourth basket for such services. For
   purposes of § § 61.41 through 61.49, this basket shall be referred to as the
   “interexchange basket.”

   (ii) If a price cap local exchange carrier has implemented interLATA and
   intraLATA toll dialing parity everywhere it provides local exchange services
   at the holding company level, that price cap carrier may file a tariff
   revision to remove corridor and interstate intraLATA toll services from its
   interexchange basket.

   (5) A basket for special access services as described in § 69.114 of this
   chapter.

   (e)(1) The traffic sensitive switched interstate access basket shall contain
   such services as the Commission shall permit or require, including the
   following service categories:

   (i) Local switching as described in § 69.106(f) of this chapter;

   (ii) Information, as described in § 69.109 of this chapter;

   (iii) Data base access services;

   (iv) Billing name and address, as described in § 69.128 of this chapter;

   (v) Local switching trunk ports, as described in § 69.106(f)(1) of this
   chapter; and

   (vi) Signalling transfer point port termination, as described in § 69.125(c)
   of this chapter.

   (2)  The  trunking basket shall contain such switched transport as the
   Commission  shall  permit  or require, including the following service
   categories and subcategories:

   (i) Voice grade entrance facilities, voice grade direct-trunked transport,
   voice grade dedicated signalling transport,

   (ii) High capacity flat-rated transport, including the following service
   subcategories:

   (A) DS1 entrance facilities, DS1 direct-trunked transport, DS1 dedicated
   signalling transport, and

   (B) DS3 entrance facilities, DS3 direct-trunked transport, DS3 dedicated
   signalling transport.

   (iii) Tandem-switched transport, as described in § 69.111 of this chapter;
   and

   (iv)  Signalling for tandem switching, as described in § 69.129 of this
   chapter.

   (3) The special access basket shall contain special access services as the
   Commission  shall  permit  or require, including the following service
   categories and subcategories:

   (i)  Voice grade special access, WATS special access, metallic special
   access, and telegraph special access services;

   (ii) Audio and video services;

   (iii)  High  capacity  special access, and DDS services, including the
   following service subcategories:

   (A) DS1 special access services; and

   (B) DS3 special access services;

   (iv) Wideband data and wideband analog services.

   (f) Each price cap local exchange carrier shall exclude from its price cap
   baskets such services or portions of such services as the Commission has
   designated or may hereafter designate by order.

   (g) New services, other than those within the scope of paragraph (f) of this
   section, must be included in the affected basket at the first annual price
   cap tariff filing following completion of the base period in which they are
   introduced. To the extent that such new services are permitted or required
   to be included in new or existing service categories within the assigned
   basket, they shall be so included at the first annual price cap tariff
   filing following completion of the base period in which they are introduced.

   [ 54 FR 19842 , May 8, 1989]

   Editorial Note: For Federal Register citations affecting § 61.42, see the
   List of CFR Sections Affected, which appears in the Finding Aids section of
   the printed volume and at www.fdsys.gov.

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