Cal. PUC approved Pacific Bell’s plan to end transition agreement...
Cal. PUC approved Pacific Bell’s plan to end transition agreements with 13 small incumbent independent telcos for terminating carrier-of-last-resort obligations for intraLATA toll service. Under PUC order, neither Pac Bell nor incumbent small telco is required to provide intraLATA…
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toll service if at least one interexchange carrier is willing to provide toll on presubscribed basis. Where no IXC is willing to serve a small telco’s area, small incumbent must continue to provide toll. PUC order frees Pac Bell from paying $37 million annually to small telcos under transition agreements, and PUC said Pac Bell could pocket savings. Order also requires small incumbents to set implementation schedule for intraLATA presubscription balloting. Small incumbents must adopt National Exchange Carrier Assn. switched access rates for small telcos, but without common line access rate element. Any revenue shortfall resulting from elimination of common line element may be made up from state high- cost fund, PUC said.