Or. Admin. Code § 860-032-0200 - Essential Services

(1) For purposes of ORS 759.195, a local exchange service is essential if customers require it to efficiently establish, sustain, or discontinue a telecommunications service by means of the public network. The public network is comprised of a system of interconnected telecommunications channels held out by a local exchange carrier for use by the general public.

(2) A local exchange service is essential if the service is essential for one or more local customer classes.

(3) If essential and potentially price-listed services are packaged together, the entire package is eligible to be considered for price listing if each essential service in the package is readily available to customers on a separate basis and the package price is equal to or greater than the tariffed rate(s) for the essential service(s) plus the long-run incremental cost(s) of the price-listed service(s).

(4) Any new service is presumed to be potentially price listed until the Commission determines otherwise. A service is not new if it merely repackages or renames an existing service.

(5) A service can only be discontinued pursuant to OAR 860-032-0020, whether the service is essential or potentially price listed.

(6) The following are essential services:

(a) Residential Flat;

(b) Residential Measured;

(c) Residential Multiparty;

(d) Suburban;

(e) Farmer Line;

(f) Business Simple;

(g) Business Complex;

(h) Public Access Line;

(i) Tone Dialing (Touch Tone);

(j) Hunting;

(k) Direct Inward Dialing;

(l) Conditioning;

(m) Intercept Announcement and Referral;

(n) Directory Listing (White and Yellow Pages);

(o) Privacy Listing;

(p) Directory Assistance;

(q) Emergency (9-1-1);

(r) Switched Access Service; and

(s) Toll Restriction.

Notes

Or. Admin. Code § 860-032-0200

PUC 18-1988, f. & cert. ef. 12-29-88 (Order No. 88-1522); PUC 1-1994, f. & cert. ef. 1-5-94 (Order No. 94-040); PUC 10-1998, f. & cert. ef. 4-28-98; PUC 2-1999, f. & cert. ef. 8-10-99

Stat. Auth.: ORS 183, 756 & 759

Stats. Implemented: ORS 756.040 & 759.195