[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: 47CFR61.42]

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                       TITLE 47--TELECOMMUNICATION
 
        CHAPTER I--FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED)
 
PART 61_TARIFFS--Table of Contents
 
              Subpart E_General Rules for Dominant Carriers
 
Sec.  61.42  Price cap baskets and service categories.

    (a)-(c) [Reserved]
    (d) Each local exchange carrier subject to price cap regulation 
shall establish baskets of services as follows:
    (1) A basket for the common line, marketing, and certain residual 
interconnection charge interstate access elements as described in 
Sec. Sec.  69.115, 69.152, 69.153, 69.154, 69.155, 69.156, and 69.157 of 
this chapter. For purposes of Sec. Sec.  61.41 through 61.49, this 
basket shall be referred to as the ``CMT basket.''
    (2) A basket for traffic sensitive switched interstate access 
elements. For purposes of Sec. Sec.  61.41 through 61.49 of this 
chapter, this basket shall be referred to as the ``traffic-sensitive 
basket.''
    (3) A basket for trunking services as described in Sec. Sec.  
69.110, 69.111, 69.112, 69.125(b), 69.129, and 69.155 of this chapter. 
For purposes of Sec. Sec.  61.41 through 61.49, this basket shall be 
referred to as the ``trunking basket.''
    (4)(i) To the extent that a local exchange carrier specified in 
Sec.  61.41(a) (2) or (3) offers interstate interexchange services that 
are not classified as access services for the purpose of part 69 of this 
chapter, such exchange carrier shall establish a fourth basket for such 
services. For purposes of Sec. Sec.  61.41 through 61.49 of this 
chapter, this basket shall be referred to as the ``interexchange 
basket.''
    (ii) If a price cap carrier has implemented interLATA and intraLATA 
toll dialing parity everywhere it provides local exchange services at 
the holding company level, that price cap carrier may file a tariff 
revision to remove corridor and interstate intraLATA toll services from 
its interexchange basket.
    (5) A basket for special access services as described in Sec.  
69.114 of this chapter.
    (e)(1) The traffice sensitive switched interstate access basket 
shall contain such services as the Commission shall permit or require, 
including the following service categories:
    (i) Local switching as described in Sec.  69.106(f) of this chapter;
    (ii) Information, as described in Sec.  69.109 of this chapter;
    (iii) Data base access services;
    (iv) Billing name and address, as described in Sec.  69.128 of this 
chapter;
    (v) Local switching trunk ports, as described in Sec.  69.106(f)(1) 
of this chapter; and
    (vi) Signalling transfer point port termination, as described in 
Sec.  69.125(c) of this chapter.
    (2) The trunking basket shall contain such switched transport as the 
Commission shall permit or require, including the following service 
categories and subcategories:
    (i) Voice grade entrance facilities, voice grade direct-trunked 
transport, voice grade dedicated signalling transport,
    (ii) High capacity flat-rated transport, including the following 
service subcategories:
    (A) DS1 entrance facilities, DS1 direct-trunked transport, DS1 
dedicated signalling transport, and
    (B) DS3 entrance facilities, DS3 direct-trunked transport, DS3 
dedicated signalling transport.
    (iii) Tandem-switched transport, as described in Sec.  69.111 of 
this chapter; and
    (iv) Signalling for tandem switching, as described in Sec.  69.129 
of this chapter.
    (3) The special access basket shall contain special access services 
as the Commission shall permit or require, including the following 
service categories and subcategories:
    (i) Voice grade special access, WATS special access, metallic 
special access, and telegraph special access services;
    (ii) Audio and video services;
    (iii) High capacity special access, and DDS services, including the 
following service subcategories:
    (A) DS1 special access services; and
    (B) DS3 special access services;

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    (iv) Wideband data and wideband analog services.
    (f) Each local exchange carrier subject to price cap regulation 
shall exclude from its price cap baskets such services or portions of 
such services as the Commission has designated or may hereafter 
designate by order.
    (g) New services, other than those within the scope of paragraph (f) 
of this section, must be included in the affected basket at the first 
annual price cap tariff filing following completion of the base period 
in which they are introduced. To the extent that such new services are 
permitted or required to be included in new or existing service 
categories within the assigned basket, they shall be so included at the 
first annual price cap tariff filing following completion of the base 
period in which they are introduced.

[54 FR 19842, May 8, 1989, as amended at 55 FR 42382, Oct. 19, 1990; 55 
FR 50558, Dec. 7, 1990; 56 FR 5956, Feb. 14, 1991; 56 FR 55239, Oct. 25, 
1991; 57 FR 54718, Nov. 20, 1992; 58 FR 7868, Feb. 10, 1993; 58 FR 
29552, May 21, 1993; 58 FR 31914, June 7, 1993; 58 FR 36145, July 6, 
1993; 59 FR 10301, Mar. 4, 1994; 59 FR 32930, June 27, 1994; 60 FR 4569, 
Jan. 24, 1995; 60 FR 13639, Mar. 14, 1995; 60 FR 52346, Oct. 6, 1995; 62 
FR 31930, June 11, 1997; 64 FR 46589, Aug. 26, 1999; 64 FR 51265, Sept. 
22, 1999; 65 FR 38695, June 21, 2000]