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Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 52 - Operation of Public Utilities › Article 1 - Gas Utilities › 3 AAC 52.080 - Definitions

Current through May 31, 2024
Unless the context requires otherwise, in
					 3 AAC 52.010 -
					 3 AAC 52.080,
(1) "business hours" means from 8:00 a.m. to
				  5:00 p.m. on a day other than Saturday, Sunday, or a state legal
				  holiday;
(2) "commission" means the
				  Regulatory Commission of Alaska;
(3) "incident" has the meaning given in
				  49 C.F.R.
				  191.3, revised as of October 1, 2016, and
				  adopted by reference;
(4) "minimum
				  federal safety standards for gas lines" or "standards" means the requirements
				  set out in  49 C.F.R. Part 192  (transportation of natural and other gas by
				  pipeline: minimum federal safety standards), revised as of October 1, 2016, and
				  adopted by reference;
(5)
				  "potential incident" means an event involving the escape of gas from a gas
				  gathering, transmission, or distribution facility, and resulting in
				  hospitalization, fatality, or property damage that may meet the threshold of an
				  incident, but sufficient time has not passed to verify the extent of injuries,
				  fatalities, or property damage;
(6)
				  "utility" means a public utility that owns, operates, manages, or controls a
				  plant or system of facilities used for the transmission or distribution of
				  natural or manufactured gas or other inflammable gas, to the extent that the
				  system, plant, or facilities are included in the term "public utility" as
				  defined by
				  AS
				  42.05.990.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS
						42.05.291
AS
						42.05.990
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 52 - Operation of Public Utilities › Article 2 - Allocation of Facilities and Services Between Competing Electric Utilities › 3 AAC 52.110 - Purpose

Current through May 31, 2024
The purpose of
					 3 AAC 52.110 -
					 3 AAC 52.150 is to prevent duplication of electric
					 facilities and services in those geographical areas of the state in which two
					 or more electric utilities compete.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS 42.05.151
AS
						42.05.221
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 52 - Operation of Public Utilities › Article 2 - Allocation of Facilities and Services Between Competing Electric Utilities › 3 AAC 52.120 - Authority to construct facilities or serve customers

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) No electric
				  utility operating in direct competition with one or more electric utilities
				  within the same geographical area may construct or install electric facilities
				  or provide a service connection for a customer located within a disputed
				  service area without the approval of the commission.
(b) The commission will grant approval to
				  provide a service connection for a customer located within a disputed area if
(1) the utility requesting approval receives
				  the concurrence of the competing utility and submits to the commission a signed
				  "Waiver of Objection" on a form provided by the commission; or
(2) a determination is made by the
				  commission, after hearing, that one or the other of the utilities is the
				  appropriate one to provide the service.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 52 - Operation of Public Utilities › Article 2 - Allocation of Facilities and Services Between Competing Electric Utilities › 3 AAC 52.130 - Hearing

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) If an applicant utility is unable to
				  obtain concurrence from a competing utility, the commission will appoint a
				  member of its staff as an examiner to conduct a hearing.
(b) The staff examiner shall
(1) notice the hearing for a time convenient
				  to all interested parties;
(2) hear
				  all relevant evidence;
(3) record
				  the testimony presented;
(4) within
				  24 hours after the close of the hearing, issue a decision as to which utility
				  is the most appropriate one to serve the customers;
(5) stay the decision if, within 24 hours
				  after the decision is announced, a party appeals the decision.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 52 - Operation of Public Utilities › Article 2 - Allocation of Facilities and Services Between Competing Electric Utilities › 3 AAC 52.140 - Appeals

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Each party to a hearing conducted under
				  3 AAC 52.130 may appeal the staff examiner's decision to
				  the commission within 24 hours after that decision is issued.
(b) Pending appeal, neither party may provide
				  service to the applicant customer.
(c) All appeals will be heard within three
				  business days of filing, the commission's docket schedule permitting.
(d) The scope of a public hearing held under
				  (a) of this section in response to an appeal of a staff examiner's decision is
				  limited to
(1) review and consideration of
				  the evidence and argument presented at the hearing conducted under
				  3 AAC 52.130;
(2) affirming, reversing, or modifying the
				  decision issued by the staff examiner.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 52 - Operation of Public Utilities › Article 2 - Allocation of Facilities and Services Between Competing Electric Utilities › 3 AAC 52.150 - Definitions

Current through May 31, 2024
Unless the context indicates otherwise, in
					 3 AAC 52.110 -
					 3 AAC 52.150
(1) "commission" means the Regulatory
				  Commission of Alaska;
(2) "electric
				  utility" means a public utility or utility as defined in
				  AS
				  42.05.990;
(3) "disputed service area," unless otherwise
				  defined by the commission by order, means that territory or part of that
				  territory where two competing electric utilities have proximate electric
				  distribution facilities and that is being served, or attempting to be served,
				  simultaneously by the two competing electric utilities.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS 42.05.151
AS
						42.05.221
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 52 - Operation of Public Utilities › Article 3 - Telephone Utilities › 3 AAC 52.200 - Application, purposes, and policies

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Except as
				  provided in
				  3 AAC 53.800(a),
				  3 AAC 52.200 -
				  3 AAC 52.340 apply to all telephone utilities subject to
				  the regulatory jurisdiction of the commission. These sections govern the
				  furnishing of telecommunications services and facilities to the public. The
				  purpose of 3 AAC 52.200 -
				  3 AAC 52.340 is to establish service standards to ensure
				  that reasonably continuous, uninterrupted, and prompt service will be rendered
				  to the public.
(b) The provisions
				  of (d) of this section,
				  3 AAC 52.333,
				  3 AAC 52.334,
				  3 AAC 52.340, and
				  3 AAC 53.190 apply to all telephone utilities whether or
				  not they are otherwise exempt from regulation by the commission under
				  AS
				  42.05.711.
(c) The standards in
				  3 AAC 52.200 -
				  3 AAC 52.340 do not create a private right of action on
				  behalf of any utility subscriber. However, nothing in
				  3 AAC 52.200 -
				  3 AAC 52.340 relieves a utility from any of its duties
				  under AS 42.05, or any other laws of the state, or from any other regulations,
				  orders, or directives of the commission, nor does it preclude the commission
				  from imposing sanctions or levying penalties under
				  AS
				  42.05.561-42.05.611 or taking any other
				  action authorized under AS 42.05, with respect to utility services and
				  facilities.
(d) For good cause
				  shown, the commission will, in its discretion, waive all or any portion of
				  these standards as applicable to any individual utility or may establish
				  interim standards.
(e) The
				  procedures and practices prescribed in
				  3 AAC 52.200 -
				  3 AAC 52.340 are to be followed and implemented in good
				  faith by the utility and require related prudent management in an effort to
				  maintain the proper balance between economic effectiveness and an acceptable
				  quality of service.
(f) Where
				  appropriate, the standards define surveillance levels. Failure to provide
				  service better than the levels defined generally indicates a need for
				  investigation or corrective action on the part of the utility.
(g) The staff of the commission will monitor
				  all telephone utilities' compliance with
				  3 AAC 52.200 -
				  3 AAC 52.340 and will take investigative action where it
				  considers that action appropriate.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS 42.05.151
AS 42.05.291
AS 42.05.311
AS 42.05.321
AS 42.05.331
AS 42.05.511
AS 42.05.800
AS
						42.05.810
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 52 - Operation of Public Utilities › Article 3 - Telephone Utilities › 3 AAC 52.210 - Business office

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Utility business offices generally must
				  be so located and staffed that customers and others have convenient access to
				  qualified personnel, including supervisory personnel where warranted, to
				  provide information relating to services and rates, to accept and process
				  applications for service, to explain charges on customer's bills, to adjust
				  charges made in error, and generally to act as the representative of the
				  utility. Where alternate service which may meet a customer's requirements is
				  available from the utility, the utility shall make a reasonable effort to
				  advise the customer of the most economic service available and to assist the
				  customer in making his choice of service.
(b) The utility shall notify the customer of
				  any service connection or installation charge to be applied to his bill before
				  undertaking any action so chargeable, and shall inform the customer of the
				  estimated initial bill for local service and all other applicable charges.
				  Before performing the work, the utility shall provide the customer with an
				  estimate of the charges to be levied for extraordinary construction,
				  maintenance, replacement costs, expenses, or overtime work unless these charges
				  are specifically set out in the utility's tariff or unless the customer
				  specifically requests billing on a "keep cost order" basis. No costs exceeding
				  that estimate may be charged the customer without advance written customer
				  approval. Costs below the estimate must be reflected in reduced charges or
				  refunds to the customer.
(c) The
				  utility shall notify its customers and the public of all reasonably available
				  means of contacting its business offices. The utility shall provide toll-free
				  calling from each community that it serves to its business office whenever the
				  business office is located outside of those communities.
(d) Telephone utilities shall make all
				  reasonable efforts to acknowledge, and where appropriate to answer, all
				  correspondence within 10 working days or as soon as reasonably possible
				  thereafter. The utility shall maintain records of the contact.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS 42.05.151
AS 42.05.291
AS
						42.05.381
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 52 - Operation of Public Utilities › Article 3 - Telephone Utilities › 3 AAC 52.220 - Held applications

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Normally, when a standard tariff service
				  cannot be provided within the standard installation interval, all reasonable
				  efforts shall be made to advise the applicant within 15 working days from the
				  date of the initial application for service as to
(1) the reason for the delay;
(2) a possible interim grade or type of
				  service that is available; and
(3)
				  the probable date the requested service will be provided.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 52 - Operation of Public Utilities › Article 3 - Telephone Utilities › 3 AAC 52.230 - Subscriber billing

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Each utility shall retain information
				  used in the preparation of a subscriber's bill in sufficient detail to identify
				  the subscriber and the applicable charges for all services rendered.
(b) Bills to subscribers must be rendered
				  monthly and must contain a clear listing of all adjustments and other
				  nonrecurring charges. One flat monthly charge may be shown for all local
				  service furnished under the same telephone number, and this charge may be
				  billed one month in advance. All toll charges must be itemized, specifying on a
				  call-by-call basis the date of the call, the locations connected, the duration
				  of the call, whether the call required special assistance (e.g.,
				  person-to-person, operated assisted, etc.), and the charge for the
				  call.
(c) The utility shall grant
				  credit for any toll call when the customer has reported as soon as reasonably
				  possible that a wrong number was reached or that a portion of a call was
				  inadequate for communication unless there is reason to believe that an adequate
				  connection to the desired party was effected.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS 42.05.151
AS
						42.05.381
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 52 - Operation of Public Utilities › Article 3 - Telephone Utilities › 3 AAC 52.270 - Service interruptions

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Each utility shall establish procedures
				  to minimize service interruptions, and, where those interruptions occur, to
				  speed the restoration of service. Each utility shall make provisions to meet
				  prolonged increases in traffic, absences of employees, or damage resulting from
				  fire, storm or similar contingencies. Each utility shall establish procedures
				  to be followed by its employees in the event of these contingencies in order to
				  prevent or mitigate interruption or impairment of service.
(b) Each central office and interconnecting
				  network equipment site shall contain provisions for reserve power to keep all
				  equipment operating without interruption for at least eight hours at the
				  busy-hour load following the failure of the primary electric power
				  source.
(c) If telephone service
				  must be interrupted for purposes of working on the lines or equipment, the
				  utility shall attempt to do the work at a time which will cause minimal
				  inconvenience to customers and to notify subscribers in advance of the
				  interruption. The utility shall make available to the public emergency services
				  for the duration of the interruption if reasonably possible.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS 42.05.151
AS
						42.05.291
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 52 - Operation of Public Utilities › Article 3 - Telephone Utilities › 3 AAC 52.280 - Customer reports

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Each utility shall strive to reduce the
				  rate of customer trouble reports to a monthly rate of six per 100 stations per
				  reporting exchange. Trouble report records must include appropriate
				  identification of the customer or service affected, the time, date, and nature
				  of the report, the action taken to clear the trouble or satisfy the complaint,
				  and the date and time of trouble clearance or other disposition. A rate of
				  customer trouble reports for each reporting unit exceeding 12 trouble reports
				  per 100 stations for each month of a consecutive three-month period indicates a
				  need for investigative or corrective action by the telephone utility. These
				  trouble report rates do not apply to reports resulting from interruptions
				  caused by emergency situations, unavoidable casualties, acts of God, reports
				  that do not affect service, or troubles to be found beyond the control of the
				  utility or due to subscriber-owned equipment.
(b) The utility shall clear troubles
				  associated with emergency services at all hours at all locations consistent
				  with the bona fide needs of customers and the personal safety of utility
				  personnel.
(c) The objective of
				  each telephone utility must be to clear all out-of-service troubles within the
				  periods specified below following the reporting of the trouble to the telephone
				  utility (Sundays and holidays excepted)
(1)
				  48 hours at locations accessible by maintained highway from a manned utility
				  repair facility;
(2) five days at
				  all other locations.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 52 - Operation of Public Utilities › Article 3 - Telephone Utilities › 3 AAC 52.290 - Installation service

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Where central office and outside plant
				  facilities are readily available, the objective of each utility must be to
				  satisfy 85 percent of all requests for primary service in any calendar month
				  within an interval of five working days after receipt of application, except
				  where special equipment or services are involved. Failure to complete 80
				  percent of all requests for primary service in any calendar month within 10
				  working days indicates a need for corrective action by the utility. Commitments
				  are not considered missed when the failure to complete the requested
				  installation or the service request results from subscriber action.
(b) The object of each utility must be to
				  complete all regrade requests not requiring substantial amounts of construction
				  within 30 days, except where the subscriber requests a later date. If the
				  utility is unable to complete a regrade order within 30 days, the utility shall
				  make all reasonable efforts to advise the subscriber of the reason for the
				  unavailability of the requested service and whether that service may be
				  available in the near future.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS 42.05.151
AS
						42.05.331
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 52 - Operation of Public Utilities › Article 3 - Telephone Utilities › 3 AAC 52.300 - Operator handled calls

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Each utility shall maintain adequate
				  personnel and equipment to answer 90 percent of all calls directed to the toll
				  operator within 10 seconds. The surveillance level is reached when answering an
				  average of less than 85 percent of all calls directed to the toll operator
				  within 10 seconds for each month of any consecutive three-month period. An
				  equivalent answering time objective is an average answer time of 2.8 seconds in
				  each month of any consecutive three-month period; and the surveillance level is
				  when the average answer time is greater than four seconds.
(b) Directory assistance, intercept calls,
				  and auxiliary services must have an answering time objective of 85 percent of
				  calls answered within 10 seconds. Excessive answer times that adversely affect
				  toll trunk usage indicate a need for corrective action by the
				  utility.
(c) For purposes of this
				  section, "answer" means that the operator or representative is ready to render
				  assistance or ready to accept the information necessary to process the call. An
				  acknowledgement that the customer is waiting on the line does not constitute an
				  "answer."
(d) Repealed
				  11/22/2017.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS
						42.05.151
AS
						42.05.291
AS
						42.05.331
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 52 - Operation of Public Utilities › Article 3 - Telephone Utilities › 3 AAC 52.310 - Switching design standards

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Each utility
				  shall maintain records for each exchange regarding the service items contained
				  in these standards. These records must be maintained in a manner that permits
				  audit by the commission's advisory staff.
(b) Every properly dialed call shall
				  terminate in one of the following, unless it encounters a trouble condition:
(1) the call will progress to the number
				  dialed, the calling customer will receive an audible indication of a ring, and
				  the called telephone will ring;
(2)
				  if the called line is busy, the calling customer will receive a line-busy
				  signal (60 impulses per minute);
(3) the call will progress only part of the
				  way through the switch train and, having reached an overflow condition, the
				  calling customer will receive an overflow signal (120 impulses per minute) or
				  announcement readily differentiated from a subscriber busy signal;
(4) unassigned numbers in an end office will
				  receive a line-busy signal or an intercept announcement.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 52 - Operation of Public Utilities › Article 3 - Telephone Utilities › 3 AAC 52.320 - Information to be furnished

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Each telephone
				  utility shall report to the commission, in accordance with
				  3 AAC 48.095, all instances where the quality of service
				  it provides fails to meet the surveillance levels specified in
				  3 AAC 52.280(d),
				  3 AAC 52.300(a), or
				  3 AAC 52.310(e) for three consecutive
				  months. That report must be filed with the commission not later than 30 days
				  following the three-month period during which the surveillance levels have not
				  been attained.
(b) Each local
				  exchange carrier shall notify the commission as soon as reasonably possible any
				  outage defined in  47 C.F.R. 4 .S(a), of at least 30 minutes' duration that
				  affects 25 percent or 100 end users of an exchange, whichever is less. that
				  causes isolation of working lines in any exchange from 911 access, or that
				  causes a complete loss of extended area service (EAS). The notification must
				  include
(1) the date and time of onset of the
				  outage;
(2) the geographic areas
				  affected by the outage;
(3) cause
				  of the outage and estimated restoration time, if known; and
(4) the number of customers
				  affected
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 52 - Operation of Public Utilities › Article 3 - Telephone Utilities › 3 AAC 52.333 - Access to intrastate interexchange carriers

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) As set out in
				  (b) - (c) of this section, a local exchange telephone utility providing service
				  to an exchange shall install and maintain plant, equipment, and facilities
				  necessary to provide 2-PIC dialing in that exchange upon receipt of a bona fide
				  request for interconnection.
(b) If
				  a local exchange telephone utility receives a bona fide request for
				  interconnection in an exchange where interstate equal access is available at
				  the time of the request, that utility shall implement 2-PIC dialing in that
				  exchange within 90 days after receipt of that request. Upon implementation of
				  2-PIC dialing, the access line or lines of each customer will be presubscribed
				  to the incumbent carrier until the local exchange telephone utility receives a
				  request from an interexchange carrier to change the customer's interexchange
				  carrier.
(c) If a local exchange
				  telephone utility receives a bona fide request for interconnection in an
				  exchange where interstate equal access is not being provided at the time of the
				  request, that utility shall provide 2-PIC dialing at the same time and on the
				  same schedule as required by the Federal Communications Commission for the
				  implementation of interstate equal access. In this event, presubscription
				  balloting for intrastate interexchange carriers shall be conducted by that
				  utility in coordination with balloting for interstate interexchange carriers,
				  as follows:
(1) At least 45 days in advance
				  of the mailing of interstate interexchange presubscription ballots, a local
				  exchange telephone utility shall file with the commission for review and
				  approval.i in accordance with
				  3 AAC 48.095, a proposed intrastate interexchange
				  presubscription ballot that lists the available intrastate interexchange
				  carriers. The ballot must clearly state that a customer may select different
				  interexchange carriers for intrastate and interstate interexchange
				  services.
(2) Pending the
				  conversion to 2-PIC equal access, 1-plus and no-plus intrastate interexchange
				  calls and o-minus calls must be routed to the incumbent carrier. Other
				  intrastate interexchange carriers shall obtain access through Feature Group A
				  or Feature Group B access from the local exchange telephone utility, without
				  discount, or through the incumbent carrier's 2-PIC equal access
				  tandem.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 52 - Operation of Public Utilities › Article 3 - Telephone Utilities › 3 AAC 52.334 - Customer notice of access options and presubscription

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) For a period of
				  three years after a local exchange telephone utility initially provides 2-PIC
				  dialing, that utility must annually include in a periodic billing or in a
				  separate mailing a notice to customers listing available intrastate
				  interexchange carriers and explaining the actions that must be taken to change
				  carriers and the cost of making the change.
(b) Repealed 11/11/2001.
(c) Repealed 11/11/2001.
(d) Repealed 11/11/2001.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS 42.05.151
AS 42.05.311
AS 42.05.321
AS 42.05.800
AS
						42.05.810
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 52 - Operation of Public Utilities › Article 3 - Telephone Utilities › 3 AAC 52.336 - Presubscription of public telephones

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A public
				  telephone is subject to presubscription. The owner of premises on which a
				  public telephone is located has the right to presubscribe that
				  telephone.
(b) If a local exchange
				  telephone utility receives a bona fide request to provide service to public
				  telephones on a presubscribed basis in an exchange where equal access is being
				  provided at the time of the request, that utility shall implement public
				  telephone presubscription within 30 days after receipt of the request. Upon
				  implementation of public telephone presubscription, the routing of a public
				  telephone access line will remain unchanged until the local exchange telephone
				  utility receives a written letter of authorization signed by the owner of
				  premises changing presubscription for that public telephone to another
				  certificated interexchange carrier.
(c) Within 30 days of receipt of a request
				  under (b) of this section, the local exchange telephone utility shall mail a
				  notice to each owner of premises in its service area. The notice must inform
				  each owner of premises that it may presubscribe the public telephones on its
				  premises to the interexchange carrier of its choice. The notice must also list
				  available interexchange carriers. The local exchange telephone utility shall
				  provide each interexchange carrier with a complete list of the names and
				  addresses to which the notice is mailed.
(d) If a local exchange telephone utility
				  receives a bona fide request under
				  3 AAC 52.333(c), the local exchange
				  telephone utility shall conduct presubscription balloting for public telephones
				  in coordination with and on the same schedule as balloting for other phones, as
				  required by
				  3 AAC 52.333(c). However, the
				  interexchange carrier that made a bona fide request for equal access may delay
				  provision of service to public telephones, in which case (b) of this section
				  will apply. Technical difficulties associated with service to public telephones
				  may not delay provision of 2-PIC dialing to other phones in accordance with
				  3 AAC 52.333(c).
(e) Each local exchange telephone utility
				  shall affix on the face of each public telephone, in addition to any other
				  required information, the name of the presubscribed interexchange
				  carrier.
(f) Unless the context
				  indicates otherwise, in this section
(1)
				  "owner of premises" means the owner of premises on which a public telephone is
				  located or, for leased premises, the lessee, unless otherwise provided in the
				  lease;
(2) "public telephone" means
				  a public or semi-public pay telephone.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 52 - Operation of Public Utilities › Article 4 - Criteria for Intrastate Interexchange Telephone Competition › 3 AAC 52.350 - Applicability, finding, purpose, and waiver

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The provisions
				  of 3 AAC 52.350 -
				  3 AAC 52.399 apply to all interexchange carriers and
				  alternate operator service providers that furnish intrastate interexchange
				  telephone service within this state.
(b) The commission finds that the competitive
				  provision of intrastate interexchange telephone service in accordance with the
				  provisions of
				  3 AAC 52.350 -
				  3 AAC 52.399 is required by the public convenience and
				  necessity.
(c) The purpose of
				  3 AAC 52.350 -
				  3 AAC 52.399 is to allow competition in the provision of
				  intrastate interexchange telephone service to the extent possible while
				  maintaining and promoting universal intrastate interexchange telephone service
				  at geographically averaged rates.
(d) Notwithstanding (a) - (c) of this
				  section, 3 AAC 52.350(b),
				  3 AAC 52.358, and
				  3 AAC 52.360 do not apply to an interexchange carrier
				  that is also an incumbent local exchange carrier. An incumbent local exchange
				  carrier may file an application to provide intrastate interexchange telephone
				  service under
				  3 AAC 48.600 -
				  3 AAC 48.661.
(e) Unless otherwise required under AS 42.05,
				  a requirement in
				  3 AAC 52.350 -
				  3 AAC 52.399 may be modified or waived, in whole or in
				  part, by order of the commission and a showing of good cause or on the
				  commission's own motion. An applicant shall file and the commission will
				  consider an application in accordance with
				  3 AAC 48.805.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS 42.05.151
AS 42.05.221
AS 42.05.325
AS 42.05.711
AS
						42.05.810
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 52 - Operation of Public Utilities › Article 4 - Criteria for Intrastate Interexchange Telephone Competition › 3 AAC 52.360 - Certificates of public convenience and necessity

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The following
				  entities are not eligible to register or renew registration under
				  3 AAC 52.358, and must file an application in compliance
				  with this section to obtain a certificate of public convenience and necessity
				  to provide intrastate interexchange telephone service:
(1) an entity that proposes to provide
				  facilities-based intrastate interexchange telephone service, whether or not the
				  entity is registered under
				  3 AAC 52.358;
(2) an interexchange carrier or alternate
				  operator service provider that is registered under
				  3 AAC 52.358, if that entity has more than one million
				  intrastate billable minutes per month for three consecutive months;
(3) an incumbent local exchange
				  carrier;
(4) an entity that
				  provides service to inmates in a correctional facility;
(5) an entity affiliated with either a
				  facilities-based interexchange carrier or an incumbent local exchange
				  carrier.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 52 - Operation of Public Utilities › Article 4 - Criteria for Intrastate Interexchange Telephone Competition › 3 AAC 52.365 - Discontinuance, suspension, or abandonment of service

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) An intrastate
				  interexchange carrier may not discontinue, suspend, or abandon
				  telecommunications service without commission approval under
				  AS
				  42.05.261. A carrier that files a request
				  with the commission to discontinue, suspend, or abandon service under
				  AS
				  42.05.261 shall give written notice of that
				  request to
(1) repealed 9/16/2005;
(2) the carrier's subscribers at the location
				  where the carrier proposes to discontinue, suspend, or abandon service;
				  and
(3) each local exchange carrier
				  and interexchange carrier serving the location where the carrier proposes to
				  discontinue, suspend, or abandon service.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 52 - Operation of Public Utilities › Article 4 - Criteria for Intrastate Interexchange Telephone Competition › 3 AAC 52.367 - Online tariff of registered entities

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Except as
				  provided in
				  3 AAC 52.377, a registered entity shall maintain a
				  tariff, in hypertext markup language (HTML), on the Internet at an address
				  associated with the carrier. The entity may maintain the online tariff in
				  additional electronic formats for the convenience of the public, if the
				  versions in the additional formats do not deviate in content from, and are
				  substantially consistent in layout with, the version in hypertext markup
				  language.
(b) In its online tariff,
				  a registered entity may include the following charges, if the entity fully
				  describes those charges in its online tariff, and if the charge complies with
				  the requirements applicable to that charge:
(1) a customer deposit, if the entity's
				  online tariff sets out objective criteria for determining when a customer
				  deposit will be required; the deposit may not exceed the entity's estimate of
				  two months' billings and may not be retained longer than two years unless the
				  customer is delinquent in payment more than once in any 12 consecutive months;
				  however, an alternate operator service provider may not require a customer
				  deposit;
(2) late payment charges
				  for bills not paid 30 days after the later of the billing invoice date or the
				  billing postmark date; the entity may include only the following in a late
				  payment charge:
(A) a one-time late payment
				  fee not exceeding one percent of the unpaid amount;
(B) a finance charge not exceeding. 0287
				  percent of the unpaid amount per day that the amount remains unpaid;
(3) a termination fee for a
				  service with a term commitment, if the
(A)
				  termination fee is clearly stated in the term-of-service contract;
				  and
(B) amount of the termination
				  fee is reasonably related to the discount the customer received before
				  termination and is not punitive.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 52 - Operation of Public Utilities › Article 4 - Criteria for Intrastate Interexchange Telephone Competition › 3 AAC 52.370 - Retail rates

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) The retail rates for message telephone
				  service of each interexchange carrier must be geographically averaged. If rates
				  vary by the distance over which calls are placed, the rate for each mileage
				  band must be equal to or greater than the rate for the next shorter mileage
				  band. Discounts, if offered, must be available at all locations in the state
				  where the carrier offers service.
(b) A certificated carrier shall maintain a
				  current tariff of retail rates and all special contracts for retail rates on
				  file with the commission. The certificated carrier may modify retail rates,
				  offer new or repackaged services, and implement special contracts for retail
				  service without approval of the commission after 30 days' notice to the
				  commission of a tariff filing submitted in accordance with
				  3 AAC 48.220 and
				  3 AAC 48.270. A tariff filing by a registered entity
				  must comply with
				  3 AAC 52.367 unless it is a special contract. A special
				  contract filed by a registered entity must be submitted in accordance with
				  3 AAC 48.220 and
				  3 AAC 48.270. A modification in retail rates must be
				  consistent with (a) of this section.
(c) Repealed 9/16/2005.
(d) Notwithstanding (b) of this section, the
				  commission will disapprove and require modification of rates that are not just
				  and reasonable or that grant an unreasonable preference or advantage to any
				  customer or subject a customer to an unreasonable prejudice or
				  disadvantage.
(e) Repealed
				  10/6/2013.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS
						42.05.151
AS
						42.05.221
AS
						42.05.241
AS
						42.05.431
AS
						42.05.711
AS
						42.05.990
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 52 - Operation of Public Utilities › Article 4 - Criteria for Intrastate Interexchange Telephone Competition › 3 AAC 52.372 - Long distance rate parity

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) To the extent
				  possible and reasonable, and taking into consideration
(1) costs of service;
(2) changes in calling volumes;
(3) changes in intrastate access charge
				  rates;
(4) jurisdictional cost
				  differences; and
(5) other relevant
				  factors, an interexchange carrier's retail intrastate long distance rates must
				  be in parity with or lower than its applicable interstate long distance
				  rates.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 52 - Operation of Public Utilities › Article 4 - Criteria for Intrastate Interexchange Telephone Competition › 3 AAC 52.375 - Wholesale service and rates

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) A certificated
				  interexchange carrier shall offer all its services for resale to other
				  carriers. Services must be offered for resale at wholesale rates to the extent
				  determined appropriate in view of the facilities and general service offerings
				  of the interexchange carrier.
(b)
				  The certificated carrier shall maintain a current tariff of wholesale rates and
				  all special contracts for wholesale rates on file with the commission. The
				  carrier may reduce wholesale rates without approval of the commission after 30
				  days' notice to the commission of a tariff revision submitted in accordance
				  with 3 AAC 48.220 and
				  3 AAC 48.270. A tariff revision to increase wholesale
				  rates, to offer new or repackaged wholesale services, or to implement special
				  contracts for wholesale service is subject to the provisions of
				  3 AAC 48.220,
				  3 AAC 48.270, and
				  3 AAC 48.280 -
				  3 AAC 48.410 and must also include quantitative data,
				  including cost-of-service data, in support of the proposed rates.
(c) Repealed 9/16/2005.
(d) Notwithstanding (b) of this section, the
				  commission will disapprove and require modification of wholesale rates that are
				  not just and reasonable or that grant an unreasonable preference or advantage
				  to any customer or subject a customer to an unreasonable prejudice or
				  disadvantage.
(e) The wholesale
				  rates for services for resale are not required to be averaged
				  geographically.
(f) Within 60 days
				  after receiving a written bona fide request for an unbundled rate element, a
				  carrier shall offer the rate element by tariff if doing so is not unduly
				  economically burdensome, is technically feasible, and is otherwise consistent
				  with existing regulations. The time period for offering the element may be
				  modified by agreement of the carrier and the entity making the bona fide
				  request or by order of the commission. A carrier denying a bona fide request
				  shall, within 30 days after receiving the request, deliver a written denial
				  stating the reasons for denial to the entity making the request. The carrier
				  shall also file a copy of the written denial with the commission.
(g) A carrier that does not own or control
				  transmission facilities is exempt from the requirements of this section if the
				  carrier has not received a bona fide request for intrastate wholesale service.
				  If the carrier exempt under this subsection receives a bona fide request for
				  intrastate wholesale service, the carrier shall comply with (a) - (f) of this
				  section or apply to the commission for a continued exemption.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS 42.05.151
AS 42.05.221
AS 42.05.241
AS 42.05.431
AS 42.05.711
AS
						42.05.990
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 52 - Operation of Public Utilities › Article 4 - Criteria for Intrastate Interexchange Telephone Competition › 3 AAC 52.376 - Promotions

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) An interexchange carrier may offer
				  promotions to induce customers to use its services only as provided in this
				  section.
(b) A promotion must be
				  set out in a utility's tariff as required in
				  3 AAC 52.370 and
				  3 AAC 52.375.
(c) A promotion that is a cash payment,
				  credit to an account, gift, or combination of those items and that is not
				  intended as a recurring benefit may be offered only once per customer per year
				  and be of no greater value than $100 per year per line. Substantially similar
				  promotions are the same promotion for purposes of this subsection. This
				  subsection does not apply to "contests" or "sweepstakes" in which the carrier
				  has no control over who receives the benefit.
(d) A promotion that provides a recurring
				  benefit, including a monthly discount to rates or waiver of recurring charges,
				  may be in effect for a maximum of 12 months. That promotion or a substantially
				  similar promotion may be renewed no sooner than three months after the end of
				  its previously effective period. Substantially similar promotions are the same
				  promotion for purposes of assessing the 12-month limit.
(e) The commission may disapprove and require
				  modification of a promotion that
(1) is not
				  just, fair, and reasonable;
(2)
				  grants an unreasonable preference or advantage to any customer; or
(3) subjects a customer to an unreasonable
				  prejudice or disadvantage.
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 52 - Operation of Public Utilities › Article 4 - Criteria for Intrastate Interexchange Telephone Competition › 3 AAC 52.377 - Detariffing of prepaid calling card services

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Except as
				  provided in (c) of this section, an interexchange carrier that offers a prepaid
				  calling card service is not required to include those services in its tariff if
				  the prepaid service is available for sale to the general public.
(b) Except for cards provided at no charge to
				  the final customer, prepaid calling cards may not be limited to a single
				  customer or group of customers.
(c)
				  Prepaid calling card services sold to inmates in a correctional facility are
				  not eligible for detariffing under this section.
(d) Each rate, term, condition, and
				  limitation of service must be clearly posted at the point of sale, and the
				  following information must be
(1) placed on
				  the card:
(A) the name of the service
				  provider;
(B) the access telephone
				  number;
(C) the customer's personal
				  identification number (PIN);
(D) a
				  toll-free customer service telephone number;
Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 52 - Operation of Public Utilities › Article 4 - Criteria for Intrastate Interexchange Telephone Competition › 3 AAC 52.380 - Reporting, verification, and auditing requirements

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) An
				  interexchange carrier shall submit to the commission, to each exchange access
				  service provider, and to each association of exchange access service providers
				  data necessary for the calculation of access charges in accordance with the
				  Alaska Intrastate Interexchange Access Charge Manual, adopted by reference in
				  3 AAC 48.440, and the effective access charge
				  tariffs.
(b) An interexchange
				  carrier shall retain for a period of three years the records, including billing
				  tapes, from which the data specified in (a) of this section is
				  obtained.
(c) All information
				  submitted by an interexchange carrier under (a) of this section is available
				  for public inspection.
(d) An
				  interexchange carrier may petition the commission to authorize an independent
				  audit of the information provided by another interexchange carrier under (a) of
				  this section. The interexchange carrier requesting an audit must pay for the
				  cost of the audit. If the commission determines, based on the audit, that the
				  information provided by the audited interexchange carrier is inaccurate by a
				  margin exceeding 2 percent or by a margin that resulted in an underpayment of
				  access charges by an amount exceeding $200,000 on an annual basis, the audited
				  interexchange carrier shall reimburse the cost of the audit and shall be
				  subject to civil penalties in accordance with
				  AS
				  42.05.571-
				  42.05.621. In addition, an
				  interexchange carrier that is determined to have underpaid access charges shall
				  correct that underpayment in accordance with the tariff of the Alaska Exchange
				  Carriers Association.
(e) Repealed
				  11/22/2017.
(f) Repealed
				  11/22/2017.
Authority:
AS
						42.05.141
AS
						42.05.151
AS
						42.05.221
AS
						42.05.241
AS
						42.05.431
AS
						42.05.990