1. (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. (2) A local exchange service is essential if the service is essential for one or more local customer classes.
3. (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. (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. (5) A service can only be discontinued pursuant to OAR 860-032-0020, whether the service is essential or potentially price listed.

6. (6) The following are essential services:

   1. (a) Residential Flat;
   2. (b) Residential Measured;
   3. (c) Residential Multiparty;
   4. (d) Suburban;
   5. (e) Farmer Line;
   6. (f) Business Simple;
   7. (g) Business Complex;
   8. (h) Public Access Line;
   9. (i) Tone Dialing (Touch Tone);
   10. (j) Hunting;
   11. (k) Direct Inward Dialing;
   12. (l) Conditioning;
   13. (m) Intercept Announcement and Referral;
   14. (n) Directory Listing (White and Yellow Pages);
   15. (o) Privacy Listing;
   16. (p) Directory Assistance;
   17. (q) Emergency (9-1-1);
   18. (r) Switched Access Service; and
   19. (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)