[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 47, Volume 3]
[Revised as of October 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 47CFR69.125]

[Page 420-421]
 
                       TITLE 47--TELECOMMUNICATION
 
        CHAPTER I--FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED)
 
PART 69_ACCESS CHARGES--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart B_Computation of Charges
 
Sec. 69.125  Dedicated signalling transport.

    (a) Dedicated signalling transport shall consist of two elements, a 
signalling link charge and a signalling transfer point (STP) port 
termination charge.
    (b)(1) A flat-rated signalling link charge expressed in dollars and 
cents per unit of capacity shall be assessed upon all interexchange 
carriers and other persons that use facilities between an interexchange 
carrier or other person's common channel signalling network and a 
telephone company signalling transfer point or equivalent facilities 
offered by a telephone company. Signalling link charges may be distance-
sensitive. Distance shall be measured as airline kilometers between the 
signalling point of interconnection of the interexchange carrier's or 
other person's common channel signalling network and the telephone 
company's signalling transfer point.
    (2) Signalling link rates will generally be presumed reasonable if 
they

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are based on the interoffice charges for equivalent special access 
services. Telephone companies that have, before February 18, 1993, 
tariffed a signalling link service for signalling transport between the 
interexchange carrier's or other person's common channel signalling 
network and the telephone company's STP are permitted to use the rates 
that are in place.
    (c) A flat-rated STP port termination charge expressed in dollars 
and cents per port shall be assessed upon all interexchange carriers and 
other persons that use dedicated signalling transport.

[57 FR 54721, Nov. 20, 1992, as amended at 58 FR 41191, Aug. 3, 1993; 58 
FR 44950, Aug. 25, 1993; 62 FR 31935, June 11, 1997]