Idaho Code 62-622A – Commission Authority to Establish Minimum Pricing of Basic Local Exchange Service
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Terms Used In Idaho Code 62-622A
- Basic local exchange service: means the provision of access lines to residential and small business customers with the associated transmission of two-way interactive switched voice communication within a local exchange calling area. See Idaho Code 62-603
- Commission: means the Idaho public utilities commission. See Idaho Code 62-603
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Local exchange calling area: means a geographic area encompassing one (1) or more local communities as described in maps, tariffs, rate schedules, price lists, or other descriptive material filed with the commission by a telephone corporation, within which area basic local exchange rates rather than message telecommunication service rates apply. See Idaho Code 62-603
- Telephone corporation: means every corporation or person, their lessees, trustees, receivers or trustees appointed by any court whatsoever, providing telecommunication services for compensation within this state, provided that municipal, cooperative, or mutual nonprofit telephone companies shall be included in this definition only for the purposes of sections 62-610 and 62-617 through 62-620, Idaho Code. See Idaho Code 62-603
A telephone corporation may file a petition with the commission alleging that another telephone corporation, not subject to regulation pursuant to title 61, Idaho Code, is offering basic local exchange service to customers in a local exchange calling area at a price below its average variable cost of providing such service in the local exchange calling area. The commission shall, if after hearing it finds by a preponderance of the evidence that the allegations contained in the petition are true, establish a minimum price for basic local exchange service of the telephone corporation in the local exchange calling area, which minimum price shall reflect the telephone corporation’s average variable cost of providing such service.