Ohio Administrative Code › Title 4901:1 - Utilities › Chapter 4901:1-7 - Local Exchange Carriers › Section 4901:1-7-03 - Toll presubscription

Current through all regulations passed
			 and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) All local exchange carriers (LEC)
			 
								will
			 charge intrastate intraLATA toll service providers or customers no more than
			 five dollars and fifty cents for a manual, local presubscribed interexchange
			 carrier (LPIC) change or no more than one dollar and twenty-five cents for an
			 electronic LPIC change, except when a LEC establishes a company-specific,
			 cost-based, intrastate LPIC rate, as outlined in paragraph (G) of this rule.
Whenever a LEC charges an intrastate intraLATA toll service
				provider for changing a customer's LPIC,  the customer making the request for the same LPIC
				change.
An intrastate intraLATA toll service provider who is charged by
				the LEC providing presubscription for changing a customer's LPIC, may pass
				through to that customer no more than what it has been charged by such
				LEC.
(B)
								
								Only the permitted LPIC change charge
			 
								will be
								
								applied to
			 any LPIC change.
(C) When a
			 customer switches both the customer's interLATA presubscribed interexchange
			 carrier (PIC) and LPIC at the same time, the LEC providing presubscription
			 
								is to
			 waive one-half of the applicable LPIC change charge without regard to whether
			 the change was performed through manual or electronic means. This requirement
			 to waive one-half of the applicable LPIC change charge does not apply when
			 company-specific, cost-supported charges that account for the efficiencies of
			 changing the customer's interLATA PIC and LPIC at the same time have been
			 approved pursuant to paragraph (G) of this rule.
(D) When an intrastate intraLATA toll service
			 provider electronically submits to a LEC a request to change a customer's LPIC,
			 the LEC 
								is
			 to treat the LPIC change as an electronic LPIC change for customer
			 billing purposes, regardless of any manual process that may be required or
			 involved in carrying out the change.
(E) Paragraphs (A) to (D) of this rule also
			 apply when the subscriber explicitly chooses no intrastate intraLATA toll
			 service provider (NoLPIC).
(F) A
			 new customer 
								will be permitted to make an initial LPIC selection,
			 which may include choosing NoLPIC, free of charge at the time the customer
			 initiates local service. If the customer is unable to make a selection at the
			 time of initiation of local service,  the customer is to be informed by the
			 ILEC that unless a selection is made by the customer at the time local
			 service is initiated, the LEC will, as a default, place the customer in a
			 NoLPIC status.
The LEC 
									will further inform the customer that until such
				time as the customer informs the LEC of the customer's LPIC selection, the
				customer will not have an intrastate intraLATA toll service provider and, as a
				result, will be required to dial a carrier access code to route an intrastate
				intraLATA toll call to the carrier of the customer's choice or make other
				arrangements. A customer making an LPIC selection after the time of local
				service initiation may be assessed an LPIC change charge subject to paragraphs
				(A) to (D) of this rule.
(G) A LEC demonstrating through a submitted
			 cost study that the LPIC rates identified in paragraph (A) of this rule do not
			 recover the costs incurred 
								can file company-specific rates
			 through the filing of a UNC case.
(H) Any LEC that has previously relied upon
			 cost support to establish its tariffed LPIC change charge when such charge is
			 below the safe harbor rates set forth in this rule and in effect as of the
			 effective date of this rule 
								is unable to increase its LPIC change charge
			 without first providing cost support justifying the increase.