Opinion ID: 2639331
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Heading: Residential Basic Local Telecommunications Exchange Service

Text: Section 40-15-102(3) defines residential basic service as telecommunications service which provides a local dial tone line and local usage necessary to place or receive a call within an exchange area and any other services or features that may be added by the commission. . . . Further, section 40-15-102(29) defines telecommunications service as electronic or optical transmission of information. . . . Section 40-15-102(3) also authorizes the PUC to add services or features to the general definition of basic service. The PUC has added several services and features, including facsimile and data transmission capability, access to emergency services, customer billing, white page directory listing, access to operator services, and access to toll services, to the definition of basic service. See 723-2-17.1 to 723-2-17.1.14, 4 C.C.R. (2001). [5] The statutes and PUC regulations do not provide a definition of bundled service. However, in its order, the PUC describes bundled service as services above and beyond the basic service package.