Reclassification of basic network services: Authority of Commission; adoption of criteria for reclassification; period for acting on request for reclassification from PAR carrier.
1. The Commission may, at any time, upon its own motion or that of any person, reclassify a basic network service, except access to emergency 911 service.
2. The Commission shall establish by regulation criteria for determining whether a service should be reclassified, except that the Commission shall not adopt criteria for determining whether a service should be reclassified that would deny a request to reclassify a basic network service to another classification of service within an exchange where a competitive supplier operates and provides that service, on the basis that there is not a competitive supplier of that service in any other portion of the State.
3. If the Commission receives a written request for reclassification from a PAR carrier, the Commission shall act upon the request not later than 120 days after the date the Commission receives the request.
Last modified: February 26, 2006