Washington Administrative Code › Title 480 - Utilities and Transportation Commission › Chapter 480-120 - Telephone companies › Part I - GENERAL RULES › Section 480-120-071 - Extension of service

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
(1) This rule
				applies to local exchange companies receiving federal high-cost universal
				service support.
(2)
Definitions.
The following definitions apply to this section
				unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
"Applicant" means any person applying to a telecommunications
				  company for new residential basic local exchange service. Applicant does not
				  include developers requesting service for developments.
"Cost of service extension" means the direct and indirect
				  costs of the material and labor to plan and construct the facilities including,
				  but not limited to, permitting fees, rights of way fees, and payments to
				  subcontractors, and does not include the cost of reinforcement, network
				  upgrade, or similar costs.
"Developer" means any owner of a development who offers it
				  for disposition, or an agent of such an owner.
"Development" means land which is divided or is proposed to
				  be divided for the purpose of disposition into four or more lots, parcels, or
				  units.
"Distribution plant" means telephone equipment and facilities
				  necessary to provide new residential basic local exchange service to a
				  premises, but does not include drop wire.
"Drop wire" means company-supplied wire and pedestals to be
				  placed between a premises and the company distribution plant at the applicant's
				  property line. For drop wire installed after January 15, 2001, a drop wire must
				  be sufficient in capacity to allow the provisioning of three individual basic
				  exchange voice-grade access lines.
"Extension of service" means an extension of company
				  distribution plant for new residential basic local exchange service to a
				  location where no distribution plant of the extending company exists at the
				  time an extension of service is requested. An extension is constructed at the
				  request of one or more applicants for service. Extensions of service do not
				  include trenches, conduits, or other support structure for placement of
				  company-provided facilities from the applicant's property line to the premises
				  to be served. Extension of service, as defined in this rule, does not apply to
				  extensions of service to developments or to extensions of service for temporary
				  occupancy or temporary service.
"Extraordinary cost" means a substantial expense resulting
				  from circumstances or conditions beyond the control of the company that are
				  exceptional and unlikely to occur in the normal course of planning and
				  constructing facilities contemplated by this rule.
"Order date" as defined in WAC
				  480-120-021 (Definitions) means
				  the date when an applicant requests service unless a company identifies
				  specific actions a customer must first complete in order to be in compliance
				  with commission rules. Except as provided in WAC
				  480-120-061 (Refusing service)
				  and 480-120-104 (Information to consumers), when specific actions are required
				  to be completed by the applicant, the order date becomes the date the company
				  receives the completed application for extension of service.
"Premises" means any structure that is used as a residence,
				  but does not include predominantly commercial or industrial structures.
"Temporary occupancy" means occupancy definitely known to be
				  for less than one year but does not include intermittent or seasonal use when
				  the intermittent or seasonal use will occur in more than a one-year
				  period.
"Temporary service" means service definitely known to be for
				  a short period of time, such as service provided for construction huts, sales
				  campaigns, athletic contests, conventions, fairs, circuses, and similar
				  events.
(3)
Residential basic local exchange service.
(a) Each wire line ETC must, within seven
				business days of an applicant's initial request, provide the applicant with an
				application for extension of service. The company must also provide the
				applicant a brief explanation of the extension of service rules.
(b) The company must process applications
				that require an extension of service in a timely manner.