Rural telephone company.

Rural telephone company. A rural telephone company is a LEC operating entity to the extent that such entity:
(1) Provides common carrier service to any local exchange carrier study area that does not include either:
(i) Any incorporated place of 10,000 inhabitants or more, or any part thereof, based on the most recently available population statistics of the Bureau of the Census; or
(ii) Any territory, incorporated or unincorporated, included in an urbanized area, as defined by the Bureau of the Census as of August 10, 1993;
(2) Provides telephone exchange service, including exchange access, to fewer than 50,000 access lines;
(3) Provides telephone exchange service to any local exchange carrier study area with fewer than 100,000 access lines; or
(4) Has less than 15 percent of its access lines in communities of more than 50,000 on February 8, 1996.

Source

47 CFR § 51.5

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Scoping language

Terms used in this part have the following meanings:

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