Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 924 – Prohibitions and changes in preferred carrier selection
(a) No carrier shall bill for intrastate telecommunications services, nor solicit to provide intrastate telecommunication services, within the State, unless such carrier has received a certificate of public convenience and necessity from the Commission.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 924
- Carrier: shall mean any person or entity offering to the public telecommunications service that originates or terminates within the State; provided, however, that the term "carrier" shall not include:
- Commission: shall mean the Delaware Public Service Commission. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 923
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Customer: shall mean a person who subscribes to local exchange services, intraLATA intrastate toll service or both. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 923
- State: means the State of Delaware; and when applied to different parts of the United States, it includes the District of Columbia and the several territories and possessions of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
- Submitting carrier: shall mean any carrier that requests on behalf of a customer that the customer's carrier be changed, and seeks to provide retail services to an end user customer. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 923
(b) No submitting carrier shall submit a change in the customer‘s selection of a carrier prior to obtaining:
(1) Authorization from the customer; and
(2) Verification of that authorization in accordance with the procedures prescribed in this subchapter and implementing regulations of the Commission.
(c) No carrier shall bill or collect from any person a charge for any product or service to which such person has not agreed or subscribed, nor for any amount in excess of that specified in the tariff, price list or contract governing the charges for such services.