[Code of Federal Regulations] [Title 47, Volume 3] [Revised as of October 1, 2003] From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access [CITE: 47CFR54.307] [Page 122-124] TITLE 47--TELECOMMUNICATION CHAPTER I--FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED) PART 54_UNIVERSAL SERVICE--Table of Contents Subpart D_Universal Service Support for High Cost Areas Sec. 54.307 Support to a competitive eligible telecommunications carrier. (a) Calculation of support. A competitive eligible telecommunications carrier shall receive universal service support to the extent that the competitive eligible telecommunications carrier captures the subscriber lines of an incumbent local exchange carrier (LEC) [[Page 123]] or serves new subscriber lines in the incumbent LEC's service area. (1) A competitive eligible telecommunications carrier serving loops in the service area of a rural incumbent local exchange carrier, as that term is defined in Sec. 54.5 of this chapter, shall receive support for each line it serves in a particular service area based on the support the incumbent LEC would receive for each such line, disaggregated by cost zone if disaggregation zones have been established within the service area pursuant to Sec. 54.315 of this subpart. A competitive eligible telecommunications carrier serving loops in the service area of a non-rural incumbent local exchange carrier shall receive support for each line it serves in a particular wire center based on the support the incumbent LEC would receive for each such line. A competitive eligible telecommunications carrier serving loops in the service area of a rate- of-return carrier shall be eligible to receive Interstate Common Line Support for each line it serves in the service area in accordance with the formula in Sec. 54.901. (2) A competitive eligible telecommunications carrier that uses switching purchased as unbundled network elements pursuant to Sec. 51.307 of this chapter to provide the supported services shall receive the lesser of the unbundled network element price for switching or the per-line DEM support of the incumbent LEC, if any. A competitive eligible telecommunications carrier that uses loops purchased as unbundled network elements pursuant to Sec. 51.307 of this chapter to provide the supported services shall receive the lesser of the unbundled network element price for the loop or the incumbent LEC's per-line payment from the high-cost loop support, LTS, and Interstate Common Line Support mechanisms, if any. The incumbent LEC providing nondiscriminatory access to unbundled network elements to such competitive eligible telecommunications carrier shall receive the difference between the level of universal service support provided to the competitive eligible telecommunications carrier and the per-customer level of support that the incumbent LEC would have received. (3) A competitive eligible telecommunications carrier that provides the supported services using neither unbundled network elements purchased pursuant to Sec. 51.307 of this chapter nor wholesale service purchased pursuant to section 251(c)(4) of the Act will receive the full amount of universal service support that the incumbent LEC would have received for that customer. (4) A competitive eligible telecommunications carrier that provides the supported services using neither unbundled network elements purchased pursuant to Sec. 51.307 of this chapter nor wholesale service purchased pursuant to section 251(c)(4) of the Act will receive the full amount of universal service support previously provided to the incumbent local exchange carrier for that customer. The amount of universal service support provided to such incumbent local exchange carrier shall be reduced by an amount equal to the amount provided to such competitive eligible telecommunications carrier. (b) In order to receive support pursuant to this subpart, a competitive eligible telecommunications carrier must report to the Administrator the number of working loops it serves in a service area pursuant to the schedule set forth in paragraph (c) of this section. For a competitive eligible telecommunications carrier serving loops in the service area of a rural incumbent local exchange carrier, as that term is defined in Sec. 54.5, the carrier must report, by customer class, the number of working loops it serves in the service area, disaggregated by cost zone if disaggregation zones have been established within the service area pursuant to Sec. 54.315. For a competitive eligible telecommunications carrier serving loops in the service area of a non- rural telephone company, the carrier must report the number of working loops it serves in the service area, by customer class if the non-rural telephone company receives Interstate Common Line Support pursuant to Sec. 54.901 and by disaggregation zone if disaggregation zones have been established within the service area pursuant to Sec. 54.315 of this subpart, and the number of working loops it serves in each wire center in the service area. For universal service support purposes, [[Page 124]] working loops are defined as the number of working Exchange Line C&WF loops used jointly for exchange and message telecommunications service, including C&WF subscriber lines associated with pay telephones in C&WF Category 1, but excluding WATS closed end access and TWX service. Competitive eligible telecommunications carriers providing mobile wireless service in an incumbent LEC's service area shall use the customer's billing address for purposes of identifying the service location of a mobile wireless customer in a service area. (c) A competitive eligible telecommunications carrier must submit the data required pursuant to paragraph (b) of this section according to the schedule. (1) No later than July 31st of each year, submit data as of December 31st of the previous calendar year; (2) No later than September 30th of each year, submit data as of March 31st of the existing calendar year; (3) No later than December 30th of each year, submit data as of June 30th of the existing calendar year; (4) No later than March 30th of each year, submit data as of September 30th of the previous calendar year. [62 FR 32948, June 17, 1997, as amended at 63 FR 2128, Jan. 13, 1998; 64 FR 67431, Dec. 1, 1999; 65 FR 26516, May 8, 2000; 66 FR 30087, June 5, 2001; 66 FR 59726, Nov. 30, 2001; 68 FR 31623, May 28, 2003]