1. (a)

   1. (1) The Arkansas Public Service Commission shall determine the ILEC exchanges to be served based on total access lines.
   2. (2) Initially, the exchange size to be served shall be no more than two thousand six hundred (2,600) total access lines.
   3. (3) The plan shall not be available in exchanges meeting the total access line requirement but where it is not possible to make intrastate, intraLATA calls within a forty-one-mile circle.
2. (b) Each ILEC shall make the plan available to customers located in such exchanges.
3. (c) Each CLEC that is also an ETC shall make the plan available to customers located within the ILEC exchanges defined by subsection (a) of this section.
4. (d) On an exchange basis, the plan shall continue to be available to existing plan customers when the exchange access line count at the end of September exceeds the cutoff established in subsection (a) of this section, but the plan will no longer be offered to new customers starting January 1 of the next year.
5. (e) Starting January 1 of the next year, the plan shall be available in all exchanges where the exchange access line count at the end of the preceding September is less than the cutoff established in subsection (a) of this section.

Codification Notes: This section was promulgated as Rule 14.02 of the Telecommunications Providers Rules prior to codification in the Code of Arkansas Rules. "IntraLATA" means within the local access and transport area.