Public Utility Commission
Chapter 860
Division 32
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
860-032-0200
Essential Services
(1) For purposes of ORS 759.195, a local exchange service is essential if customers require it to efficiently establish, sustain, or discontinue a telecommunications service by means of the public network. The public network is comprised of a system of interconnected telecommunications channels held out by a local exchange carrier for use by the general public.
(2) A local exchange service is essential if the service is essential for one or more local customer classes.
(3) If essential and potentially price-listed services are packaged together, the entire package is eligible to be considered for price listing if each essential service in the package is readily available to customers on a separate basis and the package price is equal to or greater than the tariffed rate(s) for the essential service(s) plus the long-run incremental cost(s) of the price-listed service(s).
(4) Any new service is presumed to be potentially price listed until the Commission determines otherwise. A service is not new if it merely repackages or renames an existing service.
(5) A service can only be discontinued pursuant to OAR 860-032-0020, whether the service is essential or potentially price listed.
(6) The following are essential services:
(a) Residential Flat;
(b) Residential Measured;
(c) Residential Multiparty;
(d) Suburban;
(e) Farmer Line;
(f) Business Simple;
(g) Business Complex;
(h) Public Access Line;
(i) Tone Dialing (Touch Tone);
(j) Hunting;
(k) Direct Inward Dialing;
(l) Conditioning;
(m) Intercept Announcement and Referral;
(n) Directory Listing (White and Yellow Pages);
(o) Privacy Listing;
(p) Directory Assistance;
(q) Emergency (9-1-1);
(r) Switched Access Service; and
(s) Toll Restriction.
Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 183, 756 & 759
Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 756.040 & 759.1905
History:
PUC 2-1999, f. & cert. ef. 8-10-99
PUC 10-1998, f. & cert. ef. 4-28-98
PUC 1-1994, f. & cert. ef. 1-5-94 (Order No. 94-040)
PUC 18-1988, f. & cert. ef. 12-29-88 (Order No. 88-1522)