Arkansas Code Title 23, Subtitle 1, Chapter 17, Subchapter 4 - Telecommunications Regulatory Reform Act of 2013
- § 23-17-401 - Title.
This subchapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Telecommunications Regulatory Reform Act of 2013".
- § 23-17-402 - Legislative Findings.
It is the intent of the General Assembly in enacting this subchapter to: (1) Provide for a system of regulation of telecommunications services, consistent...
- § 23-17-403 - Definitions.
As used in this subchapter: (1) "Access line" means a communications facility extending from a customer's premises to a serving central office comprising a...
- § 23-17-404 - Preservation and Promotion of Universal Service.
(a) (1) The Arkansas High Cost Fund (AHCF) is established by this section in order to promote and assure the availability of universal service...
- § 23-17-405 - Eligible Telecommunications Carrier.
(a) The incumbent local exchange carrier, its successors and assigns, that owns, maintains, and provides facilities for universal service within a local exchange area...
- § 23-17-406 - Electing Companies.
(a) Any incumbent local exchange carrier may elect to have the rates, terms, and conditions for its telecommunications services determined pursuant to the provisions...
- § 23-17-407 - Regulation of Rates for Basic Local Exchange Service and Switched-Access Service of Electing Companies -- Definition.
(a) (1) The rates for basic local exchange service and switched-access services that were in effect in the date twelve (12) months prior to...
- § 23-17-408 - Regulatory Framework for Electing Companies.
(a) The earnings of an electing company shall not be subject to rate of return or rate-base monitoring or regulation, and the Arkansas Public...
- § 23-17-409 - Authorization of Competing Local Exchange Carriers.
(a) (1) (A) Consistent with the federal act and the provisions of § 23-17-410, the Arkansas Public Service Commission is authorized to grant certificates...
- § 23-17-410 - Competing Local Exchange Carriers in Service Areas of Rural Telephone Companies.
(a) A rural telephone company shall not have any duty to negotiate terms and conditions of or to enter into any agreement for the...
- § 23-17-411 - Regulatory Reform.
(a) Regarding the earnings, rates of return, or rate-base calculation of any electing company, any incumbent local exchange carrier that has filed notice in...
- § 23-17-412 - Optional Alternative Regulation of Eligible Telecommunications Companies.
(a) (1) Telephone companies that file notice with the Arkansas Public Service Commission of an election to be regulated in accordance with the provisions...
- § 23-17-413 - Optional Provision of Database to Vendors.
In order to assign the place of primary use for mobile telecommunications services pursuant to the Mobile Telecommunications Sourcing Act, Pub. L. No. 106-252,...
- § 23-17-414 - Extended Area Service.
(a) The Arkansas Public Service Commission shall promulgate rules that enable customers in a local exchange service area to petition the commission directly or...
- § 23-17-415 - Reporting of Originating Intrastate Interexchange Telephone Numbers.
(a) Where technically feasible, any telecommunications provider whose customer originates or forwards an intrastate interexchange message to be terminated over the public switched telecommunications...
- § 23-17-416 - Arkansas Intrastate Carrier Common Line.
(a) (1) (A) Except as provided in § 23-17-404(e)(4)(D)(i)(b), through June 30, 2013, intrastate carrier common line charges billed to ILECs and underlying carriers...
- § 23-17-417 - Arkansas Intrastate Carrier Common Line Pool Advisory Procedural Board.
(a) The Arkansas Intrastate Carrier Common Line Pool Advisory Procedural Board is not a government entity under Arkansas law and shall not be considered...
- § 23-17-418 - Arkansas High Cost Fund -- Programs -- Assessments -- Funding.
(a) The Arkansas High Cost Fund administrator shall: (1) On March 19, 2013, begin making assessments to ensure proper funding to program participants; and...
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