- (a) The Rural Saver Optional Calling Plan provides for residential calling to a customer’s county seat plus calling to other exchanges within a forty-one-mile (radius) circle.
(b) The plan is further defined as follows:
- (1) Only intrastate, intraLATA calls will be included in the plan;
- (2) The plan will be limited to sixty (60) minutes of calling each month;
- (3) Calling to a county seat greater than forty-one (41) miles away shall be limited to only those customers residing in the county and not all customers in the exchange;
- (4) Usage shall be rated in the same or smaller increments than were used for rating optional calling plans on April 20, 2001, the effective date for Acts 2001, No. 1769;
- (5) The calling distance shall be measured using the industry standard method of V and H coordinates of the rate centers serving the originating customer and the called telephone number;
- (6) Customers shall be required to dial one (1) plus ten (10) digits; and
- (7) Customers shall be allowed to select, if available, at least one (1) additional optional calling plan.
Codification Notes: This section was promulgated as Rule 14.01 of the Telecommunications Providers Rules prior to codification in the Code of Arkansas Rules. "IntraLATA" means within the local access and transport area. "V and H" means vertical and horizontal.