Texas Utilities Code - Section 55.007. Minimum Services
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§ 55.007. MINIMUM SERVICES. (a) The commission shall
require a holder of a certificate of convenience and necessity or a
certificate of operating authority to provide at the applicable
tariff rate, if any, to each customer, regardless of race, national
origin, income, or residence in an urban or rural area:
(1) single-party service;
(2) tone-dialing service;
(3) basic custom calling features;
(4) equal access for an interLATA interexchange
carrier on a bona fide request; and
(5) digital switching capability in an exchange on
customer request, provided by a digital switch in the exchange or by
connection to a digital switch in another exchange.
(b) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), an electing incumbent
local exchange company serving more than 175,000 but fewer than
1,500,000 access lines on January 1, 1995, shall install a digital
switch in each central office that serves an exchange of fewer than
20,000 access lines.
(c) The commission may temporarily waive a requirement
imposed by Subsection (a) or (b) on a showing of good cause.
(d) The commission may not consider the cost of implementing
this section in determining whether an electing company is entitled
to:
(1) a rate increase under Chapter 58 or 59; or
(2) increased universal service funds under
Subchapter B, Chapter 56.
(e) Expired.
Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, § 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.
Section: 54.305 55.001 55.002 55.003 55.004 55.005 55.006 55.007 55.008 55.009 55.010 55.011 55.012 55.013 55.014
Last modified: August 10, 2007
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