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ID Code § 62-606 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 62 - RAILROADS AND OTHER PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 6 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1988|Section 62-606 - REQUIREMENT FOR PRICE LIST OR TARIFF FILING — WITHDRAWAL OF TARIFFS OR PRICE LISTS.

62-606. REQUIREMENT FOR PRICE LIST OR TARIFF FILING — WITHDRAWAL OF TARIFFS OR PRICE LISTS. (1) All telephone corporations which provide message telecommunication services, WATS service or access to their local exchange network for the provision of such services by the use of special access or private line access and switched access, or their equivalents, shall file with the commission, for information purposes, tariffs or price lists which reflect the availability, price, and terms and conditions for those services. Changes to such tariffs or price lists, except as hereinafter provided, shall be effective not less than ten (10) days after filing with the commission, and giving public notice to affected customers. Changes to tariffs or price lists that are for nonrecurring services and that are quoted directly to the customer when an order is placed, or changes that result in price reductions, shall be effective immediately upon filing with the commission and no other public notice shall be required. Notwithstanding the foregoing, telephone corporations shall not be required to file tariffs or price lists for any services provided to business customers. (2) Upon written notice to the commission and to its business customers, and after posting the rates, terms and conditions of its services on the carrier’s public website, a telephone corporation may withdraw any tariff or price list not required to be filed under the provisions of this section, provided: (a) The carrier continues to maintain the rates, terms and conditions of its services on the company’s public website; (b) The commission maintains access to such terms and conditions of the telephone corporation’s service; and (c) Nothing in this section overrides the commission’s existing authority pursuant to section 62-616, Idaho Code, to resolve customer complaints.  History: [62-606, added 1988, ch. 195, sec. 1, p. 362; am. 1993, ch. 208, sec. 1, p. 570; am. 2011, ch. 312, sec. 1, p. 905.]
ID Code § 62-607 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 62 - RAILROADS AND OTHER PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 6 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1988|Section 62-607 - AVERAGING OF MESSAGE TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICE RATES.

62-607. AVERAGING OF MESSAGE TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICE RATES. Each provider of message telecommunication service which is subject to the provisions of the [this] chapter, shall average its rates for such service on its routes of similar distance within the state of Idaho unless otherwise authorized by the commission. Nothing contained herein shall be construed to prohibit volume discounts, or other discounts in promotional offerings.  History: [62-607, added 1988, ch. 195, sec. 1, p. 362.]
ID Code § 62-607A (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 62 - RAILROADS AND OTHER PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 6 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1988|Section 62-607A - PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES BY A TELEPHONE CORPORATION.

62-607A. PROHIBITED ACTIVITIES BY A TELEPHONE CORPORATION. (1) No incumbent telephone corporation, or eligible telecommunications carrier as defined in section 62-610B(1), Idaho Code, shall require a residential or small business customer, as a condition of receiving basic local exchange service, to purchase or subscribe to telecommunication services other than one (1) access line for the provision of basic local exchange service. (2) A telephone corporation that has made the election provided in sections 62-604 and 62-605, Idaho Code, with reference to basic local exchange service, shall not increase its stand-alone basic local exchange rate to residential or small business customers in any local exchange calling area to an amount that is higher than that telephone corporation’s stand-alone basic local exchange rate for residential or small business customers in the local exchange calling area having the highest number of basic local exchange service residential or business customers served by the telephone corporation within the state. (3) "Stand-alone basic local exchange rate," as used herein, means the monthly charge made by a telephone corporation to a residential or small business basic local exchange service customer for a single line that is not included in a package of services or price discounted in a promotional offering. "Stand-alone basic local exchange rate" does not include any charges resulting from action by a federal agency or taxes or surcharge imposed by a governmental body that are separately itemized and billed by a telephone corporation to its customers.  History: [62-607A, added 2005, ch. 200, sec. 3, p. 608.]
ID Code § 62-608 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 62 - RAILROADS AND OTHER PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 6 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1988|Section 62-608 - COMMISSION AUTHORITY TO REQUIRE INTERCONNECTION FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING MESSAGE TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES.

62-608. COMMISSION AUTHORITY TO REQUIRE INTERCONNECTION FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING MESSAGE TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES. A telephone corporation providing basic local exchange service shall not be required to provide message telecommunication services. In the event a telephone corporation which provides basic local exchange service does not have interconnection with a provider of message telecommunication services, the commission may order any provider of message telecommunication service in the state to interconnect with that telephone corporation upon such terms as will be just and equitable to such provider.  History: [62-608, added 1988, ch. 195, sec. 1, p. 362.]
ID Code § 62-608A (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 62 - RAILROADS AND OTHER PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 6 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1988|Section 62-608A - INTERLATA SERVICE RESTRICTIONS.

62-608A. INTERLATA SERVICE RESTRICTIONS. (1) As used in this section: (a) "Dialing parity" means the provision of dialing arrangements and other service characteristics by a telephone corporation subject to interLATA telecommunication service restrictions, to a telephone corporation which is not subject to interLATA telecommunication service restriction, which dialing arrangements and other service characteristics are equivalent in type and quality to those provided by the telephone corporation subject to interLATA telecommunication service restrictions in its provision of message telecommunication services to its subscribers; (b) "InterLATA telecommunication service restrictions" means the restrictions upon interexchange telecommunication services contained in section II(D)(1) of the Modification of Final Judgment entered in the case of the United States v. Western Electric Co., 552 F. Supp. 131 (D.D.C. 1982), and section V(C)(1) of the Final Judgment entered in the case of the United States v. GTE Corporation, 1985-1 Trade Cs. (CCH) P66, 355 (D.D.C. Dec. 21, 1984). (c) "LATA" (Local Access and Transport Area), means the geographical area within which a telephone corporation may provide message telecommunication services without violating interLATA telecommunication service restrictions. (2) A telephone corporation providing basic local exchange service, which also provides message telecommunication services and is subject to interLATA telecommunication service restrictions, shall not be required to provide dialing parity to other telephone corporations for the provision of intraLATA message telecommunication services until such telephone corporation is also permitted to provide interstate and intrastate interLATA and intraLATA message telecommunication services on an integrated basis, and is not subject to interLATA telecommunication service restrictions.  History: [62-608A, added 1995, ch. 60, sec. 1, p. 133.]
ID Code § 62-609 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 62 - RAILROADS AND OTHER PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 6 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1988|Section 62-609 - IMPUTED AND NONDISCRIMINATORY ACCESS CHARGES — COMMISSION AUTHORITY.

62-609. IMPUTED AND NONDISCRIMINATORY ACCESS CHARGES — COMMISSION AUTHORITY. (1) A telephone corporation, which provides basic local exchange service, and which also provides message telecommunications service shall impute to itself its prices of special access or private line access and switched access for the use of essential facilities used in the provision of message telecommunications service, special access or private line access services and WATS service or their equivalents. Such imputation shall be in the aggregate on a service by service basis. All other providers of message telecommunications service, special access or private line access services and WATS service or their equivalents shall impute to themselves, in the aggregate on a service by service basis, their individual cost of special or switched access or its equivalent in their pricing. The commission shall define in an appropriate proceeding what are essential facilities for the purpose of this subsection and shall resolve any dispute which may arise under this subsection. (2) Telecommunication services which are subject to the provisions of this chapter and which services utilize special or switched access, shall be made available by the telephone corporation for resale. No telephone corporation shall, as to its prices or charges for or the provision of such services, make or grant any preference or advantage to any telephone corporation or to a provider of services exempted from regulation under section 62-603(13), Idaho Code, or subject any telephone corporation or any provider of services exempted from regulation under section 62-603(13), Idaho Code, to any prejudice or competitive disadvantage with respect to its prices or charges for providing access to its local exchange network nor establish or maintain any unreasonable difference as to its prices or charges for access to its local exchange network. (3) Notwithstanding the provisions of section 62-614, Idaho Code, if, after negotiation, a dispute under this section exists between or among telephone corporations or between or among telephone corporation(s) and provider(s) of services exempted from regulation under section 62-603(13), Idaho Code, such dispute shall be determined by the commission upon petition of any affected telephone corporation or provider(s) of services exempted from regulation under section 62-603(13), Idaho Code. Information disclosed to the commission for resolution of disputes under this section shall be provided by the telephone corporations with appropriate safeguards for the protection of business or trade secrets.  History: [62-609, added 1988, ch. 195, sec. 1, p. 362; am. 1999, ch. 114, sec. 3, p. 344.]
ID Code § 62-610A (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 62 - RAILROADS AND OTHER PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 6 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1988|Section 62-610A - PURPOSE.

62-610A. PURPOSE. The purpose of this act is to authorize the Idaho public utilities commission to establish a competitively and technologically neutral funding mechanism which will operate in coordination with federal universal service support mechanisms. All consumers in this state, without regard to their location, should have comparable accessibility to basic telecommunication services at just and reasonable rates.  History: [62-610A, added 1998, ch. 37, sec. 2, p. 159.]
ID Code § 62-610B (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 62 - RAILROADS AND OTHER PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 6 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1988|Section 62-610B - DEFINITIONS.

62-610B. DEFINITIONS. For purposes of section 62-610, Idaho Code, and sections 62-610A through 62-610F, Idaho Code, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings: (1) "Eligible telecommunications carrier" means a telecommunications carrier designated by the commission who has the obligation to provide universal service throughout the service area for which the designation is received. (2) "Fund" means the Idaho telecommunications universal service fund established by the commission pursuant to sections 62-610A and 62-610F, Idaho Code. (3) "Service area" means a geographic area designated by the commission for the purpose of determining universal service obligations of eligible telecommunications carriers. In the case of a rural telephone company "service area" means the company’s "study area(s)" as established by the federal communications commission and the public utilities commission. (4) "Support area" means a geographic area designated by the commission as a high-cost area for which eligible telecommunications carrier(s) serving such area may receive financial assistance from the universal service fund. The commission shall consider population distribution, geographic factors, cost model capabilities and other relevant considerations in making such a determination. (5) "Telecommunications carrier" means a telephone corporation providing telecommunication services for compensation within this state, and shall, for the purposes of sections 62-610A through 62-610F, Idaho Code, include municipal, cooperative or mutual telephone companies and telecommunications companies providing wireless, cellular, personal communications services and mobile radio services for compensation. (6) "Universal service" means basic local exchange service and other telecommunication services designated by the commission as services which should be widely available to consumers in all regions of the state at just and reasonable rates. (7) All other terms, words or phrases shall have the meaning set forth in section 62-603, Idaho Code.  History: [62-610B, added 1998, ch. 37, sec. 3, p. 159; am. 1999, ch. 114, sec. 4, p. 345.]
ID Code § 62-610C (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 62 - RAILROADS AND OTHER PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 6 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1988|Section 62-610C - UNIVERSAL SERVICE.

62-610C. UNIVERSAL SERVICE. (1) Universal service is an evolving level of telecommunication services to which consumers in all regions of the state should have access. (2) The commission shall review the level of telecommunication services within the state on a periodic basis and designate those service(s) which should be made available to consumers by eligible telecommunications carriers to meet their obligation to provide universal service. The commission shall, if services in addition to basic local exchange service are to be designated, consider the extent to which such other telecommunication services: (a) Have, through the operation of market choices by customers, been subscribed to by a substantial majority of residential customers; (b) Are being deployed in public telecommunications networks by telecommunications carriers; and (c) Are consistent with the public interest, convenience and necessity. (d) The commission shall also consider definitions of universal service adopted by the federal communications commission pursuant to the telecommunications act of 1996.  History: [62-610C, added 1998, ch. 37, sec. 4, p. 160.]
ID Code § 62-610D (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 62 - RAILROADS AND OTHER PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 6 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1988|Section 62-610D - ELIGIBLE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CARRIERS.

62-610D. ELIGIBLE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CARRIERS. (1) Only a telecommunications carrier designated as an eligible telecommunications carrier by the commission shall be eligible to receive universal service fund support. (2) The commission shall upon its own motion or upon request designate a telecommunications carrier that meets the requirements of subsection (3) of this section as an eligible telecommunications carrier for a service area designated by the commission. Upon request and consistent with the public interest, convenience and necessity, the commission may, in the case of an area served by a rural telephone company, and shall, in the case of all other areas, designate more than one (1) telecommunications carrier as an eligible telecommunications carrier for a service area designated by the commission, so long as the requesting telecommunications carrier meets the requirements set forth in this section. Before designating an additional eligible telecommunications carrier for an area served by a rural telephone company, the commission shall find that the designation is in the public interest. (3) A telecommunications carrier requesting designation as an eligible telecommunications carrier shall, throughout the service area for which the designation is made: (a) Offer the services which are within the definition of universal service adopted by the commission, using its own facilities or a combination of its own facilities and resale of another telecommunications carrier’s services (including the services offered by another eligible telecommunications carrier); and (b) Advertise the availability of such services and the charges therefor using media of general distribution. (c) For the purpose of being eligible to receive support from the fund, the eligible telecommunications carrier shall also offer low-income telecommunication services pursuant to chapter 9, title 56, Idaho Code. (4) The commission shall permit an eligible telecommunications carrier to relinquish its designation as such a carrier in any area served by more than one (1) eligible telecommunications carrier. An eligible telecommunications carrier that seeks to relinquish its eligible telecommunications carrier designation for an area served by more than one (1) eligible telecommunications carrier shall give no less than thirty (30) days notice to the commission of its intent to relinquish such designation. Prior to permitting a telecommunications carrier designated as an eligible telecommunications carrier to cease providing universal service in an area served by more than one (1) eligible telecommunications carrier, the commission shall require the remaining eligible telecommunications carrier or carriers to ensure that all customers served by the relinquishing carrier will continue to be served.  History: [62-610D, added 1998, ch. 37, sec. 5, p. 160.]
ID Code § 62-610E (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 62 - RAILROADS AND OTHER PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 6 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1988|Section 62-610E - DESIGNATING SERVICE AND SUPPORT AREAS.

62-610E. DESIGNATING SERVICE AND SUPPORT AREAS. The commission shall designate geographic service areas for the purpose of determining universal service obligations of eligible telecommunications carriers. The commission shall also designate geographic support areas for the purpose of determining areas for which financial assistance shall be made available from the fund to assist eligible telecommunications carriers to meet universal service obligations.  History: [62-610E, added 1998, ch. 37, sec. 6, p. 161.]
ID Code § 62-610F (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 62 - RAILROADS AND OTHER PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 6 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1988|Section 62-610F - HIGH-COST SUPPORT — ADMINISTRATION — TRANSITION.

62-610F. HIGH-COST SUPPORT — ADMINISTRATION — TRANSITION. (1) The commission shall establish a universal service fund to enable eligible telecommunications carriers to make universal service widely available to all persons within the state of Idaho at reasonable rates. Eligible telecommunication carriers receiving financial support shall use that support only for the provision, maintenance and upgrading of services and facilities for which the support is intended. (2) The commission shall initiate a proceeding to determine and adopt the appropriate methodology and mechanisms to collect and distribute financial assistance which are specific, predictable and sufficient in conjunction with federal universal service support mechanisms to preserve and advance universal service within the state of Idaho. Revenue for the fund shall be collected through a uniform universal service fund surcharge as calculated by the commission. The surcharge shall be imposed on end users of all retail telecommunication services originating and terminating within the state of Idaho and collected by the telecommunications carrier providing telecommunication services to such end user. Disbursements from the fund shall be used to defray the costs, as determined by the commission, of providing universal service to customers within a geographic support area. Those costs shall be calculated using a forward-looking cost methodology. When providing disbursements from the fund, the commission shall take such actions as may be necessary to prevent redundant cost recovery by recipients of such funds including the reduction of access charges subject to title 61 or 62, Idaho Code. (3) The commission shall establish procedures to administer the universal service fund and shall contract with a neutral third party for administration of the fund. The administrator shall perform the duties required by the commission including data gathering, collecting the surcharge revenues, disbursing funds, and notifying the commission of any fund violations. (4) The commission shall develop procedures and provide for a transition period to begin no earlier than January 1, 2001, for rural telephone companies to replace funding available pursuant to section 62-610, Idaho Code, with the funding mechanism established pursuant to this section for the support of universal service.  History: [62-610F, added 1998, ch. 37, sec. 7, p. 162; am. 1999, ch. 114, sec. 5, p. 346; am. 2000, ch. 158, sec. 1, p. 400.]
ID Code § 62-611 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 62 - RAILROADS AND OTHER PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 6 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1988|Section 62-611 - REGULATORY FEES.

62-611. REGULATORY FEES. Telephone corporations whose services are subject to the provisions of this chapter, shall pay to the commission a special regulatory fee to be determined by the commission, pursuant to procedures set forth in chapter 10, title 61, Idaho Code, in such amount as may be necessary to defray the amount to be expended by the commission for expenses in supervising and regulating telephone corporations pursuant to this chapter.  History: [62-611, added 1988, ch. 195, sec. 1, p. 365.]
ID Code § 62-612 (2021)
2021 Idaho Code|Title 62 - RAILROADS AND OTHER PUBLIC UTILITIES|Chapter 6 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1988|Section 62-612 - RESTRICTION ON WITHDRAWAL OR DISCONTINUANCE OF SERVICE.

62-612. RESTRICTION ON WITHDRAWAL OR DISCONTINUANCE OF SERVICE. (1) A telephone corporation subject to this chapter which provides basic local exchange or message telecommunication service, may not withdraw or otherwise discontinue such service to a local exchange area unless one or more alternative telephone corporations are furnishing the respective telecommunication service or equivalent service to the customers in such local exchange area at the time such service is withdrawn or otherwise discontinued. (2) A telephone corporation proposing to withdraw or otherwise discontinue the services set forth in subsection (1) of this section to a local exchange area shall file a notice of such withdrawal or discontinuance of service with the commission and shall publish a notice of such withdrawal in a legal newspaper circulated within the local exchange area, and provide such other reasonable notice as may be required by the commission. (3) Any person or telephone corporation affected by a withdrawal or discontinuance of such services by a telephone corporation subject to this chapter, may within thirty (30) days from the date of publication of the notice apply to the commission to determine whether such withdrawal or discontinuance of service is authorized pursuant to this section.  History: [62-612, added 1988, ch. 195, sec. 1, p. 365.]