Ill. Admin. Code tit. 83, § 730.515 - Central Office Administrative Requirements
a)
Central office capacity and equipment shall be sufficient to provide a dial tone
within three seconds on 95% of all calls placed during the busy hour of any given
day. Whenever the dial tone rate falls below 95%, the local exchange carrier shall
take corrective action and report such action to the Commission within 15% business
days after the end of the month in which the violation occurred.
b) For purposes of subsection (a), the percent of
calls that obtained dial tone within three seconds shall be derived by dividing the
total number of customer dialing attempts during the busy hour that obtained dial
tone within three seconds by the total number of customer attempts to obtain dial
tone during the busy hour .
c) Each
central office shall be equipped with alarms to indicate failures or improper
functions.
d) Either operator or
mechanized intercept service shall be provided for nonworking or changed terminating
numbers until the numbers are assigned or reassigned.
e) All remote switching units are to be equipped
to continue to perform basic internal switching functions if a base unit connection
is interrupted.
f) Whenever a local
exchange carrier fails to meet the monthly objectives contained in this section, it
shall report that fact to the Commission's Telecommunications Division, with a
statement of the reasons for such failure, within 15 days after the end of the
respective month.
Notes
Amended at 27 Ill. Reg. 17997, effective December 1, 2003
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