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Notice: 4943525

Notice of Proposed Rule

Department:

PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

Chapter:

TELEPHONE COMPANIES

Overview

RULE:

25-4.042	Extended Area Service (Repealed)
25-4.057	Application and Scope (Repealed)
25-4.058	Conditions for Approval (Repealed)
25-4.059	Filing Requirements (Repealed)
25-4.060	Community of Interest Considerations (Repealed)
25-4.061	Hearings (Repealed)
25-4.063	Subscriber Survey (Repealed)
25-4.064	Alternatives to Non-Optional Extended Area Service (Repealed)

PURPOSE:

The Commission proposes to repeal these rules because they are no longer necessary. Section 364.385(2), F.S., prohibits new Extended Area Service (EAS) proceedings for price-regulated local exchange companies (LECs). Repealing the EAS rules will align the F.A.C. with this statute and would have no effect on the ten LECs in Florida. Docket No. 070588-TP.

SUMMARY:

The listed rules address a LECs obligation to anticipate, or respond to the Commission's directive to study and/or provide toll relief under specific circumstances. The toll relief at issue is EAS, and collectively, these rules can be described as “EAS rules”. EAS is defined in subsection 25-4.057(2), F.A.C., as “a switching and trunking arrangement which provides for a nonoptional, unlimited, two-way, flat-rate calling service between two or more exchanges, at an increment to exchange rates, rather than at toll message charges”.

RULEMAKING AUTHORITY:

350.127 FS.

LAW:

364.03, 364.14, 364.15, 364.17, 364.385 FS.

PRINT PUBLISH DATE:

12/7/2007 Vol. 33/49

COMMENTS:

From 12/7/2007 To 12/28/2007 (21 Days)
The public comment period for this notice has already expired.

REFERENCE MATERIALS:

No reference(s).

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