Rep. Kevin A. McCarthy
Filed: 4/23/2010
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1 | AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 6425
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2 | AMENDMENT NO. ______. Amend House Bill 6425 by replacing | ||||||
3 | everything after the enacting clause with the following:
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4 | "Section 5. The High Speed Internet Services and | ||||||
5 | Information Technology Act is amended by changing Sections 20 | ||||||
6 | and 25 as follows: | ||||||
7 | (20 ILCS 661/20)
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8 | Sec. 20. Duties of the enlisted nonprofit organization. | ||||||
9 | (a) The high speed Internet deployment strategy and demand | ||||||
10 | creation initiative to be performed by the nonprofit | ||||||
11 | organization shall include, but not be limited to, the | ||||||
12 | following actions: | ||||||
13 | (1) Create a geographic statewide inventory of high | ||||||
14 | speed Internet service and other relevant broadband and | ||||||
15 | information technology services. The inventory shall: | ||||||
16 | (A) identify geographic gaps in high speed |
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1 | Internet service through a method of GIS mapping of | ||||||
2 | service availability and GIS analysis at the census | ||||||
3 | block level; and | ||||||
4 | (B) provide a baseline assessment of statewide | ||||||
5 | high speed Internet deployment in terms of percentage | ||||||
6 | of Illinois households with high speed Internet | ||||||
7 | availability ; and . | ||||||
8 | (C) collect the following information from | ||||||
9 | Facilities-based Providers of Broadband Connections to | ||||||
10 | End User Locations: | ||||||
11 | (i) the number and type of Facilities-based | ||||||
12 | Providers of Broadband Connections to End User | ||||||
13 | Locations within the State; | ||||||
14 | (ii) the services offered by these firms to | ||||||
15 | both retail and wholesale customers; | ||||||
16 | (iii) the extent to which customers and other | ||||||
17 | providers are purchasing the firms' services; and | ||||||
18 | (iv) the technologies or methods by which | ||||||
19 | these firms provide these services, including | ||||||
20 | descriptions of technologies in place and under | ||||||
21 | development, and the degree to which firms rely on | ||||||
22 | other wholesale providers to provide service to | ||||||
23 | their own customers. | ||||||
24 | For the purposes of item (C), "Facilities-based | ||||||
25 | Providers of Broadband Connections to End User | ||||||
26 | Locations" shall have the same meaning as that term is |
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1 | defined in Section 13-407 of the Public Utilities Act. | ||||||
2 | (2) Track and identify, through customer interviews | ||||||
3 | and surveys and other publicly available sources, | ||||||
4 | statewide residential and business adoption of high speed | ||||||
5 | Internet, computers, and related information technology | ||||||
6 | and any barriers to adoption. | ||||||
7 | (3) Build and facilitate in each county or designated | ||||||
8 | region a local technology planning team with members | ||||||
9 | representing a cross section of the community, including, | ||||||
10 | but not limited to, representatives of business, K-12 | ||||||
11 | education, health care, libraries, higher education, | ||||||
12 | community-based organizations, local government, tourism, | ||||||
13 | parks and recreation, and agriculture. Each team shall | ||||||
14 | benchmark technology use across relevant community | ||||||
15 | sectors, set goals for improved technology use within each | ||||||
16 | sector, and develop a plan for achieving its goals, with | ||||||
17 | specific recommendations for online application | ||||||
18 | development and demand creation. | ||||||
19 | (4) Collaborate with high speed Internet providers and | ||||||
20 | technology companies to encourage deployment and use, | ||||||
21 | especially in underserved areas, by aggregating local | ||||||
22 | demand, mapping analysis, and creating market intelligence | ||||||
23 | to improve the business case for providers to deploy. | ||||||
24 | (5) Collaborate with the Department in developing a | ||||||
25 | program to increase computer ownership and broadband | ||||||
26 | access for disenfranchised populations across the State. |
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1 | The program may include grants to local community | ||||||
2 | technology centers that provide technology training, | ||||||
3 | promote computer ownership, and increase broadband access. | ||||||
4 | (6) Collaborate with the Department and the Illinois | ||||||
5 | Commerce Commission regarding the collection of any | ||||||
6 | information required by this Section that the Department | ||||||
7 | and the Illinois Commerce Commission deems necessary to | ||||||
8 | assist in monitoring and analyzing the broadband markets | ||||||
9 | and the status of competition and deployment of broadband | ||||||
10 | services to consumers in the State, including the format of | ||||||
11 | information requested. | ||||||
12 | (b) The nonprofit organization may apply for federal grants | ||||||
13 | consistent with the objectives of this Act. | ||||||
14 | (c) The Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity | ||||||
15 | shall use the funds in the High Speed Internet Services and | ||||||
16 | Information Technology Fund to (1) provide grants to the | ||||||
17 | nonprofit organization enlisted under this Act and (2) for any | ||||||
18 | costs incurred by the Department to administer this Act. | ||||||
19 | (d) The nonprofit organization shall have the power to | ||||||
20 | obtain or to raise funds other than the grants received from | ||||||
21 | the Department under this Act. | ||||||
22 | (e) The nonprofit organization and its Board of Directors | ||||||
23 | shall exist separately and independently from the Department | ||||||
24 | and any other governmental entity, but shall cooperate with | ||||||
25 | other public or private entities it deems appropriate in | ||||||
26 | carrying out its duties. |
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1 | (f) Notwithstanding anything in this Act or any other Act | ||||||
2 | to the contrary, any information that is designated | ||||||
3 | confidential or proprietary by an entity providing the | ||||||
4 | information to the nonprofit organization or any other entity | ||||||
5 | to accomplish the objectives of this Act shall be deemed | ||||||
6 | confidential, proprietary, and a trade secret and treated by | ||||||
7 | the nonprofit organization or anyone else possessing the | ||||||
8 | information as such and shall not be disclosed. | ||||||
9 | (g) The nonprofit organization shall provide a report to | ||||||
10 | the Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability on | ||||||
11 | an annual basis for the first 3 complete State fiscal years | ||||||
12 | following its enlistment.
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13 | (Source: P.A. 95-684, eff. 10-19-07.) | ||||||
14 | (20 ILCS 661/25)
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15 | Sec. 25. Scope of authority. Nothing in this Act shall be | ||||||
16 | construed as giving the Department of Commerce and Economic | ||||||
17 | Opportunity, the nonprofit organization, or other entities any | ||||||
18 | additional authority, regulatory or otherwise, over providers | ||||||
19 | of telecommunications, broadband, and information technology. | ||||||
20 | However, the Department shall have the authority to require | ||||||
21 | Facilities-based Providers of Broadband Connections to End | ||||||
22 | User Locations to provide information pursuant to subsection | ||||||
23 | (a) of Section 20. Upon request, any and all information | ||||||
24 | collected pursuant to subsection (a) of Section 20 that is | ||||||
25 | provided to the enlisted nonprofit organization shall be |
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1 | provided to the Department.
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2 | (Source: P.A. 95-684, eff. 10-19-07.) | ||||||
3 | Section 10. The Public Utilities Act is amended by changing | ||||||
4 | Sections 13-101, 13-202, 13-301, 13-406, 13-407, 13-503, | ||||||
5 | 13-505, 13-509, 13-703, 13-704, 13-712, and 13-1200 and by | ||||||
6 | adding Sections 13-234, 13-235, 13-236, 13-401.1, 13-506.2, | ||||||
7 | 13-804, 13-900.1, and 13-900.2 as follows:
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8 | (220 ILCS 5/13-101) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-101)
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9 | (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2010)
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10 | Sec. 13-101.
Application of Act to telecommunications | ||||||
11 | rates and
services. Except to the extent modified or | ||||||
12 | supplemented by the
specific provisions of this Article, the | ||||||
13 | Sections of this Act pertaining to
public utilities, public | ||||||
14 | utility rates and services, and the regulation
thereof, are | ||||||
15 | fully and equally applicable to noncompetitive
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16 | telecommunications rates and services, and the regulation | ||||||
17 | thereof, except
where the context clearly renders such | ||||||
18 | provisions inapplicable. Except to
the extent modified or | ||||||
19 | supplemented by the specific provisions of this
Article, | ||||||
20 | Articles I through V, Sections 8-301, 8-305, 8-502, 8-503, | ||||||
21 | 8-505, 8-509, 8-509.5, 8-510,
9-221, 9-222,
9-222.1,
9-222.2, | ||||||
22 | 9-250, and 9-252.1, and Article Articles X and XI of this Act
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23 | are fully and equally applicable to
competitive | ||||||
24 | telecommunications rates and services, and the regulation
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1 | thereof except that Section 9-250 shall not apply to | ||||||
2 | competitive retail telecommunications services ; in addition, | ||||||
3 | as to competitive telecommunications rates and
services, and | ||||||
4 | the regulation thereof, and with the exception of competitive | ||||||
5 | retail telecommunications service rates and services, all | ||||||
6 | rules and regulations
made by a telecommunications carrier | ||||||
7 | affecting or pertaining to its
charges or service to the public | ||||||
8 | shall be just and reasonable ,
provided that nothing in this | ||||||
9 | Section shall be construed to prevent
a telecommunications | ||||||
10 | carrier from accepting payment
electronically or by the use of | ||||||
11 | a customer-preferred financially
accredited credit or debit | ||||||
12 | methodology .
As of the effective date of this amendatory Act of | ||||||
13 | the 92nd General
Assembly,
Sections 4-202, 4-203,
and
5-202 of | ||||||
14 | this Act shall cease to apply to telecommunications rates and
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15 | services.
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16 | (Source: P.A. 92-22, eff. 6-30-01 .)
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17 | (220 ILCS 5/13-202) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-202)
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18 | (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2010)
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19 | Sec. 13-202.
"Telecommunications carrier" means and | ||||||
20 | includes every
corporation, company, association, joint stock | ||||||
21 | company or association,
firm, partnership or individual, their | ||||||
22 | lessees, trustees or receivers
appointed by any court | ||||||
23 | whatsoever that owns, controls, operates or manages,
within | ||||||
24 | this State, directly or indirectly, for public use, any plant,
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25 | equipment or property used or to be used for or in connection |
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1 | with, or owns
or controls any franchise, license, permit or | ||||||
2 | right to engage in the
provision of, telecommunications | ||||||
3 | services between points within the State
which are specified by | ||||||
4 | the user. "Telecommunications carrier" includes an Electing | ||||||
5 | Provider, as defined in Section 13-506.2. Telecommunications | ||||||
6 | carrier does not
include, however:
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7 | (a) telecommunications carriers that are owned and | ||||||
8 | operated by any
political subdivision, public or private | ||||||
9 | institution of higher education or
municipal corporation of | ||||||
10 | this State, for their own use, or
telecommunications carriers | ||||||
11 | that are owned by such political subdivision,
public or private | ||||||
12 | institution of higher education, or municipal corporation
and | ||||||
13 | operated by any of its lessees or operating agents, for their | ||||||
14 | own use;
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15 | (b) telecommunications carriers which are purely mutual | ||||||
16 | concerns, having
no rates or charges for services, but paying | ||||||
17 | the operating expenses by
assessment upon the members of such a | ||||||
18 | company and no other person but does
include telephone or | ||||||
19 | telecommunications cooperatives as defined in
Section 13-212;
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20 | (c) a company or person which provides telecommunications | ||||||
21 | services solely to
itself and its affiliates or members or | ||||||
22 | between points in the same building,
or between closely located | ||||||
23 | buildings, affiliated through substantial
common ownership, | ||||||
24 | control or development; or
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25 | (d) a company or person engaged in the delivery of | ||||||
26 | community antenna
television services as described in |
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1 | subdivision (c) of Section 13-203,
except with respect to the | ||||||
2 | provision of telecommunications services by that
company or | ||||||
3 | person.
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4 | (Source: P.A. 87-856 .)
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5 | (220 ILCS 5/13-234 new) | ||||||
6 | (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2010) | ||||||
7 | Sec. 13-234. Interconnected voice over Internet protocol | ||||||
8 | service. "Interconnected voice over Internet protocol service" | ||||||
9 | or "Interconnected VoIP service" has the meaning prescribed in | ||||||
10 | 47 CFR 9.3 as defined on the effective date of this amendatory | ||||||
11 | Act of the 96th General Assembly or as the amended thereafter. | ||||||
12 | (220 ILCS 5/13-235 new) | ||||||
13 | (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2010) | ||||||
14 | Sec. 13-235. Interconnected voice over Internet protocol | ||||||
15 | provider. "Interconnected voice over Internet protocol | ||||||
16 | provider" or "Interconnected VoIP provider" means and includes | ||||||
17 | every corporation, company, association, joint stock company | ||||||
18 | or association, firm, partnership, or individual, their | ||||||
19 | lessees, trustees, or receivers appointed by any court | ||||||
20 | whatsoever that owns, controls, operates, manages, or provides | ||||||
21 | within this State, directly or indirectly, Interconnected | ||||||
22 | voice over Internet protocol service. | ||||||
23 | (220 ILCS 5/13-236 new) |
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1 | (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2010) | ||||||
2 | Sec. 13-236. Internet protocol enabled service. "Internet | ||||||
3 | protocol enabled service" means any service, capability, | ||||||
4 | functionality, or application provided using Internet Protocol | ||||||
5 | that enables an end user to send or receive a voice, data, or | ||||||
6 | video communication in Internet protocol format.
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7 | (220 ILCS 5/13-301) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-301)
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8 | (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2010)
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9 | Sec. 13-301. Duties of the Commission. | ||||||
10 | (1) Consistent with the findings and policy established in
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11 | paragraph (a) of Section 13-102 and paragraph (a) of Section | ||||||
12 | 13-103, and
in order to ensure the attainment of such policies, | ||||||
13 | the Commission shall:
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14 | (a) participate in all federal programs intended to | ||||||
15 | preserve or extend
universal telecommunications service, | ||||||
16 | unless such programs would place cost
burdens on Illinois | ||||||
17 | customers of telecommunications services in excess of
the | ||||||
18 | benefits they would receive through participation, | ||||||
19 | provided, however,
the Commission shall not approve or | ||||||
20 | permit the imposition of any surcharge
or other fee | ||||||
21 | designed to subsidize or provide a waiver for subscriber | ||||||
22 | line
charges; and shall report on such programs together | ||||||
23 | with an assessment of
their adequacy and the advisability | ||||||
24 | of participating therein in its annual
report to the | ||||||
25 | General Assembly, or more often as necessary;
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1 | (b) (Blank) establish a program to monitor the level of | ||||||
2 | telecommunications
subscriber connection within each | ||||||
3 | exchange in Illinois, and shall report
the results of such | ||||||
4 | monitoring and any actions it has taken or recommends
be | ||||||
5 | taken to maintain and increase such levels in its annual | ||||||
6 | report to the
General Assembly, or more often if necessary ;
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7 | (c) order all telecommunications carriers offering or | ||||||
8 | providing local
exchange telecommunications service to | ||||||
9 | propose low-cost or budget service
tariffs and any other | ||||||
10 | rate design or pricing mechanisms designed to
facilitate | ||||||
11 | customer access to such telecommunications service, | ||||||
12 | provided services by any telecommunications carrier at the | ||||||
13 | rates, terms, and conditions specified in Section 13-506.2 | ||||||
14 | or Section 13-518 of this Article shall constitute | ||||||
15 | compliance with this Section. A telecommunications carrier | ||||||
16 | may seek Commission approval of other low-cost or budget | ||||||
17 | service tariffs or rate design or pricing mechanisms to | ||||||
18 | comply with this Section and shall
after notice and | ||||||
19 | hearing, implement any such proposals which it finds
likely | ||||||
20 | to achieve such purpose ;
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21 | (d) investigate the necessity of and, if appropriate, | ||||||
22 | establish a universal service support fund
from which local | ||||||
23 | exchange telecommunications
carriers
who pursuant to the | ||||||
24 | Twenty-Seventh Interim Order of the Commission in Docket
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25 | No. 83-0142 or the orders of the Commission in Docket No. | ||||||
26 | 97-0621 and Docket
No.
98-0679
received funding and whose |
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1 | economic costs of providing
services for which universal | ||||||
2 | service support may be made available exceed
the
affordable | ||||||
3 | rate established by the Commission for such services may be
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4 | eligible to receive
support, less any federal universal | ||||||
5 | service support received for the same or
similar costs
of | ||||||
6 | providing the supported services; provided, however, that | ||||||
7 | if a universal
service support
fund is established, the | ||||||
8 | Commission shall require that all costs of the fund be
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9 | recovered
from all local exchange and interexchange | ||||||
10 | telecommunications carriers
certificated in
Illinois and | ||||||
11 | all providers of Interconnected VoIP providers registered | ||||||
12 | in Illinois on a competitively neutral and | ||||||
13 | nondiscriminatory basis. Interconnected VoIP service shall | ||||||
14 | not be considered an intrastate telecommunications service | ||||||
15 | for the purposes of this subsection, unless defined as such | ||||||
16 | under federal law or Federal Communications Commission | ||||||
17 | regulation. For purposes of determining Interconnected | ||||||
18 | VoIP service revenues subject to the monthly assessment | ||||||
19 | under this Section, providers of Interconnected VoIP | ||||||
20 | service may use the results of a company-specific traffic | ||||||
21 | study or the inverse of the Federal Communications | ||||||
22 | Commission's federal universal service fund safe harbor in | ||||||
23 | a manner that is consistent with the methodology each | ||||||
24 | provider uses to determine its contributions to the federal | ||||||
25 | universal service fund. In
establishing any such
universal | ||||||
26 | service support fund, the Commission shall, in addition to |
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1 | the
determination of
costs for supported services, | ||||||
2 | consider and make findings pursuant to subsection (2) | ||||||
3 | paragraphs
(1), (2), and
(4) of item (e) of this Section. | ||||||
4 | Proxy cost, as determined by the
Commission, may be
used | ||||||
5 | for this purpose. In determining cost recovery for any | ||||||
6 | universal service
support fund, the Commission shall not | ||||||
7 | permit recovery of such costs from
another certificated | ||||||
8 | carrier for any service purchased and used solely as an
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9 | input to a service provided to such certificated carrier's | ||||||
10 | retail customers . ; and
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11 | (2) (e) investigate the necessity of and, if appropriate, | ||||||
12 | establish a
universal
service support
fund in addition to any | ||||||
13 | fund that may be established pursuant to item (d)
of this
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14 | Section; provided, however, that if a telecommunications | ||||||
15 | carrier receives
universal
service support pursuant to item (d) | ||||||
16 | of this Section, that
telecommunications carrier
shall not | ||||||
17 | receive universal service support pursuant to this item.
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18 | Recipients of any
universal service support funding created by | ||||||
19 | this item shall be
"eligible"
telecommunications carriers, as | ||||||
20 | designated by the Commission in accordance with
47
U.S.C. | ||||||
21 | 214(e)(2). Eligible telecommunications carriers providing | ||||||
22 | local
exchange
telecommunications service
may be eligible to | ||||||
23 | receive support for such services, less any federal
universal | ||||||
24 | service support
received for the same or similar costs of | ||||||
25 | providing the supported services.
If a fund is established, the
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26 | Commission
shall require that the costs of such fund be |
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1 | recovered from all
telecommunications
carriers, with the | ||||||
2 | exception of wireless carriers who are providers of two-way
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3 | cellular
telecommunications service and who have not been | ||||||
4 | designated as eligible
telecommunications carriers, on a | ||||||
5 | competitively neutral and non-discriminatory
basis. In
any | ||||||
6 | order creating a fund pursuant to this item, the Commission, | ||||||
7 | after
notice and
hearing, shall:
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8 | (a) (1) Define the group of services to be declared | ||||||
9 | "supported
telecommunications
services" that constitute | ||||||
10 | "universal service". This group of services shall,
at a
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11 | minimum, include those services as defined by the Federal | ||||||
12 | Communications
Commission and as from time to time amended. | ||||||
13 | In addition, the Commission
shall consider the range of | ||||||
14 | services currently offered by telecommunications
carriers | ||||||
15 | offering local exchange telecommunications service, the | ||||||
16 | existing rate
structures for the supported | ||||||
17 | telecommunications services, and the
telecommunications | ||||||
18 | needs of Illinois consumers in determining the supported
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19 | telecommunications services.
The Commission shall, from | ||||||
20 | time to time or upon request, review and, if
appropriate, | ||||||
21 | revise the group of Illinois supported telecommunications | ||||||
22 | services
and the terms of the fund to reflect changes or | ||||||
23 | enhancements in
telecommunications needs, technologies, | ||||||
24 | and available services.
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25 | (b) (2) Identify all implicit subsidies contained in | ||||||
26 | rates or charges of
incumbent local exchange
carriers, |
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1 | including all subsidies in interexchange access charges, | ||||||
2 | and
determine how
such subsidies can be made explicit by
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3 | the creation of the fund.
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4 | (3) Identify the incumbent local exchange carriers' | ||||||
5 | economic costs of
providing the
supported | ||||||
6 | telecommunications services.
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7 | (c) (4) Establish an affordable price for the supported | ||||||
8 | telecommunications
services for
the respective incumbent | ||||||
9 | local exchange carrier. The affordable price shall
be no | ||||||
10 | less than
the rates in effect at the time the Commission | ||||||
11 | creates a fund
pursuant to this item. The Commission may | ||||||
12 | establish and utilize indices
or
models for updating the | ||||||
13 | affordable price for supported telecommunications
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14 | services.
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15 | (5) Identify the telecommunications carriers from whom | ||||||
16 | the costs of the
fund
shall be recovered and the mechanism | ||||||
17 | to be used to determine and establish a
competitively | ||||||
18 | neutral and non-discriminatory funding basis. From time to | ||||||
19 | time,
or upon request, the Commission shall consider | ||||||
20 | whether, based upon changes in
technology or other factors, | ||||||
21 | additional telecommunications providers should
contribute | ||||||
22 | to the fund. The Commission shall establish the basis upon | ||||||
23 | which
telecommunications carriers contributing to the fund | ||||||
24 | shall recover
contributions
on a competitively neutral and | ||||||
25 | non-discriminatory basis.
In determining cost recovery for | ||||||
26 | any universal support fund, the Commission
shall not permit |
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1 | recovery of such costs from another certificated carrier | ||||||
2 | for
any service purchased and used solely as an input to a | ||||||
3 | service provided to such
certificated carriers' retail | ||||||
4 | customers.
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5 | (6) Approve a plan for the administration and operation | ||||||
6 | of the fund by a
neutral third party consistent with the | ||||||
7 | requirements of this item.
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8 | No fund shall be created pursuant to this item until | ||||||
9 | existing
implicit
subsidies,
including, but not limited to, | ||||||
10 | those subsidies contained in interexchange
access
charges, | ||||||
11 | have been identified and eliminated through revisions to rates | ||||||
12 | or
charges.
Prior to May 1, 2000, such revisions to rates or | ||||||
13 | charges to eliminate implicit
subsidies shall occur | ||||||
14 | contemporaneously with any funding established pursuant
to | ||||||
15 | this item. However, if the Commission does not establish a | ||||||
16 | universal
service support fund by May 1, 2000, the Commission | ||||||
17 | shall not be prevented from
entering an order or taking other | ||||||
18 | actions to reduce or eliminate existing
subsidies as well as | ||||||
19 | considering the effect of such reduction or elimination on
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20 | local exchange carriers.
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21 | Any telecommunications carrier providing local exchange
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22 | telecommunications service which offers to its local exchange | ||||||
23 | customers a
choice of two or more local exchange | ||||||
24 | telecommunications service offerings
shall provide, to any | ||||||
25 | such customer requesting it, once a year without
charge, a | ||||||
26 | report describing which local exchange telecommunications |
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1 | service
offering would result in the lowest bill for such | ||||||
2 | customer's local exchange
service, based on such customer's | ||||||
3 | calling pattern and usage for the
previous 6 months. At least | ||||||
4 | once a year, each such carrier shall provide a
notice to each | ||||||
5 | of its local exchange telecommunications service customers
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6 | describing the availability of this report and the specific | ||||||
7 | procedures by
which customers may receive it. Such report shall | ||||||
8 | only be available to
current and future customers who have | ||||||
9 | received at least 6 months of
continuous local exchange service | ||||||
10 | from such carrier.
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11 | (Source: P.A. 91-636, eff. 8-20-99 .)
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12 | (220 ILCS 5/13-401.1 new) | ||||||
13 | (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2010) | ||||||
14 | Sec. 13-401.1. Interconnected voice over Internet protocol | ||||||
15 | (VoIP) service provider registration. | ||||||
16 | (a) An Interconnected VoIP provider providing fixed or | ||||||
17 | non-nomadic service in Illinois on December 1, 2010 shall | ||||||
18 | register with the Commission no later than January 1, 2011. All | ||||||
19 | other Interconnected VoIP providers providing fixed or | ||||||
20 | non-nomadic service in Illinois shall register with the | ||||||
21 | Commission at least 30 days before providing service in | ||||||
22 | Illinois. The Commission shall prescribe a registration form no | ||||||
23 | later than October 1, 2010. The registration form prescribed by | ||||||
24 | the Commission shall only require the following information: | ||||||
25 | (1) the provider's legal name and any name under which |
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1 | the provider does or will do business in Illinois, as | ||||||
2 | authorized by the Secretary of State; | ||||||
3 | (2) the provider's address and telephone number, along | ||||||
4 | with contact information for the person responsible for | ||||||
5 | ongoing communications with the Commission; | ||||||
6 | (3) a description of the provider's dispute resolution | ||||||
7 | process and, if any, the telephone number to initiate the | ||||||
8 | dispute resolution process; and | ||||||
9 | (4) a description of each exchange of a local exchange | ||||||
10 | company, in whole or in part, or the cities, towns, or | ||||||
11 | geographic areas, in whole or in part, in which the | ||||||
12 | provider is offering or proposes to offer Interconnected | ||||||
13 | VoIP service. | ||||||
14 | A provider must notify the Commission of any change in the | ||||||
15 | information identified in paragraphs (1), (2), (3), or (4) of | ||||||
16 | this subsection (a) within 5 business days after any such | ||||||
17 | change. | ||||||
18 | (b) A provider shall charge and collect from its end-user | ||||||
19 | customers, and remit to the appropriate authority, fees and | ||||||
20 | surcharges in the same manner as are charged and collected upon | ||||||
21 | end-user customers of local exchange telecommunications | ||||||
22 | service and remitted by local exchange telecommunications | ||||||
23 | companies for local enhanced 9-1-1 surcharges. | ||||||
24 | (c) A provider may designate information that it submits in | ||||||
25 | its registration form or subsequent reports as confidential or | ||||||
26 | proprietary, provided that the provider states the reasons the |
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1 | confidential designation is necessary. The Commission shall | ||||||
2 | provide adequate protection for such information pursuant to | ||||||
3 | Section 4-404 of this Act. If the Commission or any other party | ||||||
4 | seeks public disclosure of information designated as | ||||||
5 | confidential, the Commission shall consider the confidential | ||||||
6 | designation in a proceeding under the Illinois Administrative | ||||||
7 | Procedure Act, and the burden of proof to demonstrate that the | ||||||
8 | designated information is confidential shall be upon the | ||||||
9 | provider. Designated information shall remain confidential | ||||||
10 | pending the Commission's determination of whether the | ||||||
11 | information is entitled to confidential treatment. Information | ||||||
12 | designated as confidential shall be provided to local units of | ||||||
13 | government for purposes of assessing compliance with this | ||||||
14 | Article as permitted under a protective order issued by the | ||||||
15 | Commission pursuant to the Commission's rules and to the | ||||||
16 | Attorney General pursuant to Section 6.5 of the Attorney | ||||||
17 | General Act. Information designated as confidential under this | ||||||
18 | Section or determined to be confidential upon Commission review | ||||||
19 | shall only be disclosed pursuant to a valid and enforceable | ||||||
20 | subpoena or court order or as required by the Freedom of | ||||||
21 | Information Act. | ||||||
22 | (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the | ||||||
23 | contrary, the Commission shall have the authority, after notice | ||||||
24 | and hearing, to revoke or suspend the registration of any | ||||||
25 | provider who fails to comply with the requirements of this | ||||||
26 | Section.
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1 | (220 ILCS 5/13-406) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-406)
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2 | (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2010)
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3 | Sec. 13-406. Abandonment of service. No telecommunications | ||||||
4 | carrier offering or providing
noncompetitive | ||||||
5 | telecommunications service pursuant to a valid
Certificate of | ||||||
6 | Service Authority or certificate of public convenience and
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7 | necessity shall discontinue or abandon such service once | ||||||
8 | initiated until
and unless it shall demonstrate, and the | ||||||
9 | Commission finds, after notice and
hearing, that such | ||||||
10 | discontinuance or abandonment will not deprive customers
of any | ||||||
11 | necessary or essential telecommunications service or access | ||||||
12 | thereto
and is not otherwise contrary to the public interest. | ||||||
13 | No
telecommunications carrier offering or providing | ||||||
14 | competitive
telecommunications service to an identifiable | ||||||
15 | class or group of customers shall completely discontinue or | ||||||
16 | abandon such service once
initiated except upon 30 days notice | ||||||
17 | to the Commission and affected
customers. The Commission may, | ||||||
18 | upon its own motion or upon complaint,
investigate the proposed | ||||||
19 | discontinuance or abandonment of a competitive
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20 | telecommunications service and may, after notice and hearing, | ||||||
21 | prohibit such
proposed discontinuance or abandonment if the | ||||||
22 | Commission finds that it
would be contrary to the public | ||||||
23 | interest. If the Commission does not provide notice of a | ||||||
24 | hearing within 60 calendar days after the notification or holds | ||||||
25 | a hearing and fails to find that the proposed discontinuation |
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1 | or abandonment would be contrary to the public interest, the | ||||||
2 | provider may discontinue or abandon such service after | ||||||
3 | providing at least 30 days notice to affected customers.
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4 | (Source: P.A. 84-1063 .)
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5 | (220 ILCS 5/13-407) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-407)
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6 | (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2010)
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7 | Sec. 13-407. Commission study and report. The Commission | ||||||
8 | shall monitor
and analyze patterns of
entry and exit and | ||||||
9 | changes in patterns of entry
and exit for each relevant
market | ||||||
10 | for telecommunications services, including emerging high speed
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11 | telecommunications markets and broadband services. The | ||||||
12 | Commission , and shall include its findings
together with | ||||||
13 | appropriate recommendations for legislative action in its
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14 | annual report to the General Assembly. The Commission shall | ||||||
15 | provide an analysis of entry and exit, along with changes in | ||||||
16 | patterns of entry and exit, for broadband services in its | ||||||
17 | annual report to the General Assembly.
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18 | In preparing its annual report, the Commission shall obtain | ||||||
19 | any information on broadband services that has been collected | ||||||
20 | or is in the possession of the Department of Commerce and | ||||||
21 | Economic Opportunity pursuant to the High Speed Internet | ||||||
22 | Services and Information Technology Act. The Commission shall | ||||||
23 | coordinate with the Department of Commerce and Economic | ||||||
24 | Opportunity in collecting information to avoid a duplication of | ||||||
25 | efforts. |
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1 | The Commission shall also monitor and analyze the status
of | ||||||
2 | deployment of services to consumers, and any resulting "digital | ||||||
3 | divisions"
between consumers, including any changes or trends | ||||||
4 | therein. The
Commission shall include its findings together | ||||||
5 | with appropriate recommendations
for legislative action in its | ||||||
6 | annual report to the General Assembly. In
preparing this | ||||||
7 | analysis the Commission shall evaluate information
provided by | ||||||
8 | certificated telecommunications carriers , registered | ||||||
9 | Interconnected VoIP providers, and Facilities-based Providers | ||||||
10 | of Broadband Connections to End User Locations that pertains to | ||||||
11 | the state of
competition in telecommunications markets | ||||||
12 | including, but not limited to:
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13 | (1) the number and type of firms providing | ||||||
14 | telecommunications services and ,
including broadband | ||||||
15 | telecommunications services, within the State;
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16 | (2) the telecommunications services offered by these | ||||||
17 | firms to both retail
and wholesale customers;
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18 | (3) the extent to which customers and other providers | ||||||
19 | are purchasing the
firms' telecommunications services; and
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20 | (4) the technologies or methods by which these firms | ||||||
21 | provide these
services, including descriptions of | ||||||
22 | technologies in place and under
development, and the degree | ||||||
23 | to which firms rely on other wholesale providers to
provide | ||||||
24 | service to their own customers . ; and
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25 | (5) the tariffed retail and wholesale prices for | ||||||
26 | services provided by
these firms.
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1 | The Commission shall at a minimum assess the variability in | ||||||
2 | this
information according to geography, examining variability | ||||||
3 | by exchange,
wirecenter, or zip code, and by
customer class, | ||||||
4 | examining, at a minimum, the variability between residential
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5 | and small, medium, and large business customers. The Commission | ||||||
6 | shall
provide an analysis of market trends by collecting this | ||||||
7 | information from certificated telecommunications carriers, | ||||||
8 | registered Interconnected VoIP providers, and registered | ||||||
9 | Facilities-based Providers of Broadband Connections to End | ||||||
10 | User Locations firms
providing telecommunications services | ||||||
11 | within the State. The Commission shall
also collect all | ||||||
12 | information, in a format determined by the Commission, that
the | ||||||
13 | Commission deems necessary to assist in monitoring and | ||||||
14 | analyzing the
telecommunications markets and broadband market, | ||||||
15 | along with and the status of competition and deployment of
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16 | telecommunications services and broadband services to | ||||||
17 | consumers in the State.
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18 | Notwithstanding any other provision in this Act, | ||||||
19 | certificated telecommunications carriers, registered | ||||||
20 | Interconnected VoIP providers, and Facilities-based Providers | ||||||
21 | of Broadband Connections to End User Locations shall report to | ||||||
22 | the Commission any information requested by the Commission that | ||||||
23 | the Commission deems necessary to perform its responsibilities | ||||||
24 | under this Section. The Commission may coordinate and work with | ||||||
25 | the Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity to avoid | ||||||
26 | duplication of collection of information that is collected |
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1 | pursuant to the High Speed Internet Services and Information | ||||||
2 | Technology Act. | ||||||
3 | For the purposes of this Section: | ||||||
4 | (1) "Broadband connections" include wired lines or | ||||||
5 | wireless channels that enable the end user to receive | ||||||
6 | information from or send information to the Internet at | ||||||
7 | information transfer rates exceeding 200 kbps in at least | ||||||
8 | one direction. | ||||||
9 | (2) "End user" includes a residential, business, | ||||||
10 | institutional, or government entity who uses broadband | ||||||
11 | services for its own purposes and who does not resell such | ||||||
12 | services to other entities or incorporate such services | ||||||
13 | into retail Internet-access services. For purposes of this | ||||||
14 | Section, an Internet Service Provider (ISP) is not an end | ||||||
15 | user of a broadband connection. | ||||||
16 | (3) "Facilities-based Provider of Broadband | ||||||
17 | Connections to End User Locations" means an entity that | ||||||
18 | meets any of the following conditions: | ||||||
19 | (1) It owns the portion of the physical facility | ||||||
20 | that terminates at the end user location. | ||||||
21 | (2) It obtains unbundled network elements (UNEs), | ||||||
22 | special access lines, or other leased facilities that | ||||||
23 | terminate at the end user location and provisions or | ||||||
24 | equips them as broadband. | ||||||
25 | (3) It provisions or equips a broadband wireless | ||||||
26 | channel to the end user location over licensed or |
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1 | unlicensed spectrum. | ||||||
2 | "Facilities-based Provider of Broadband Connections to | ||||||
3 | End User Locations" does not include providers of | ||||||
4 | terrestrial fixed wireless services (such as Wi-Fi and | ||||||
5 | other wireless Ethernet, or wireless local area network, | ||||||
6 | applications) that only enable local distribution and | ||||||
7 | sharing of a premises broadband facility and does not | ||||||
8 | include air-to-ground services. | ||||||
9 | (Source: P.A. 92-22, eff. 6-30-01 .)
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10 | (220 ILCS 5/13-503) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-503)
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11 | (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2010)
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12 | Sec. 13-503. Information available to the public. With | ||||||
13 | respect to rates or other charges made, demanded or
received | ||||||
14 | for any telecommunications service offered, provided or to be
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15 | provided, whether such service is competitive or | ||||||
16 | noncompetitive,
telecommunications carriers shall comply with | ||||||
17 | the publication and filing
provisions of Sections 9-101, 9-102, | ||||||
18 | and 9-103. Telecommunications carriers shall make all tariffs | ||||||
19 | available electronically to the public upon request. A | ||||||
20 | telecommunications carrier's website shall, if applicable, | ||||||
21 | provide in a conspicuous manner information on the rates, | ||||||
22 | charges, terms, and conditions of service available and a | ||||||
23 | toll-free telephone number the person may use to contact an | ||||||
24 | agent for assistance with obtaining rate or other charge | ||||||
25 | information or the terms and conditions of service.
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1 | (Source: P.A. 84-1063 .)
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2 | (220 ILCS 5/13-505) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-505)
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3 | (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2010)
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4 | Sec. 13-505. Rate changes; competitive services. (a) Any | ||||||
5 | proposed increase or decrease in rates or charges, or proposed
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6 | change in any
classification or tariff resulting in an increase | ||||||
7 | or decrease in
rates or charges, for
a competitive | ||||||
8 | telecommunications service shall be permitted upon the filing
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9 | of the proposed rate, charge, classification, or tariff. Notice | ||||||
10 | Prior notice of an
increase shall be given , no later than the | ||||||
11 | prior billing cycle, to
all potentially affected customers by | ||||||
12 | mail, publication in a newspaper of
general circulation, or | ||||||
13 | equivalent means of notice , including electronic if the | ||||||
14 | customer has elected electronic billing .
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15 | (b) If a hearing is held pursuant to Section 9-250 | ||||||
16 | regarding the
reasonableness of an increase in the rates or | ||||||
17 | charges of a competitive
local exchange service, then the | ||||||
18 | telecommunications carrier providing the
service shall have | ||||||
19 | the burden of proof to establish the justness and
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20 | reasonableness of the proposed rate or charge.
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21 | (Source: P.A. 90-185, eff. 7-23-97 .)
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22 | (220 ILCS 5/13-506.2 new) | ||||||
23 | (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2010) | ||||||
24 | Sec. 13-506.2. Market regulation for competitive retail |
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1 | services. | ||||||
2 | (a) Definitions. As used in this Section: | ||||||
3 | (1) "Electing Provider" means a telecommunications | ||||||
4 | carrier that is subject to either rate regulation pursuant | ||||||
5 | to Section 13-504 or Section 13-505 or alternative | ||||||
6 | regulation pursuant to Section 13-506.1 and that elects to | ||||||
7 | have the rates, terms, and conditions of its competitive | ||||||
8 | retail telecommunications services solely determined and | ||||||
9 | regulated pursuant to the terms of this Article. | ||||||
10 | (2) "Basic local exchange service" means either a | ||||||
11 | stand-alone residence network access line and per-call | ||||||
12 | usage or, for any geographic area in which such stand-alone | ||||||
13 | service is not offered, a stand-alone flat rate residence | ||||||
14 | network access line for which local calls are not charged | ||||||
15 | for frequency or duration. | ||||||
16 | (b) Election for market regulation.
Notwithstanding any | ||||||
17 | other provision of this Act, an Electing Provider may elect to | ||||||
18 | have the rates, terms, and conditions of its competitive retail | ||||||
19 | telecommunications services solely determined and regulated | ||||||
20 | pursuant to the terms of this Section by filing written notice | ||||||
21 | of its election for market regulation with the Commission. The | ||||||
22 | notice of election shall designate the geographic area of the | ||||||
23 | Electing Provider's service territory where the market | ||||||
24 | regulation shall apply, either on a state-wide basis or in one | ||||||
25 | or more specified Market Service Areas ("MSA") or Exchange | ||||||
26 | areas. An Electing Provider shall not make an election for |
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1 | market regulation under this Section unless it commits in its | ||||||
2 | written notice of election for market regulation to fulfill the | ||||||
3 | conditions and requirements in this Section in each geographic | ||||||
4 | area in which market regulation is elected. Immediately upon | ||||||
5 | filing the notice of election for market regulation, the | ||||||
6 | Electing Provider shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the | ||||||
7 | Commission to the extent expressly provided in this Article. | ||||||
8 | (c) Competitive classification. Market regulation shall | ||||||
9 | only be available for competitive retail telecommunications | ||||||
10 | services as provided in this subsection. | ||||||
11 | (1) For geographic areas in which telecommunications | ||||||
12 | services provided by the Electing Provider were classified | ||||||
13 | as competitive either through legislative action or a | ||||||
14 | tariff filing pursuant to Section 13-502 prior to January | ||||||
15 | 1, 2010, and that are included in the Electing Provider's | ||||||
16 | notice of election pursuant to subsection (b) of this | ||||||
17 | Section, such services, and all recurring and nonrecurring | ||||||
18 | charges associated with, related to or used in connection | ||||||
19 | with such services, shall be classified as competitive | ||||||
20 | without further Commission review. For services classified | ||||||
21 | as competitive pursuant to this subsection, the | ||||||
22 | requirements or conditions in any order or decision | ||||||
23 | rendered by the Commission pursuant to Section 13-502 prior | ||||||
24 | to the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th | ||||||
25 | General Assembly, except for the commitments made by the | ||||||
26 | Electing Provider in such order or decision concerning the |
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1 | optional packages required in subsection (d) of this | ||||||
2 | Section and basic local exchange service as defined in this | ||||||
3 | Section, shall no longer be in effect and no Commission | ||||||
4 | investigation, review, or proceeding under Section 13-502 | ||||||
5 | shall be continued, conducted, or maintained with respect | ||||||
6 | to such services, charges, requirements, or conditions. | ||||||
7 | (2) For those geographic areas in which residential | ||||||
8 | local exchange telecommunications services have not been | ||||||
9 | classified as competitive as of the effective date of this | ||||||
10 | amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly, all | ||||||
11 | telecommunications services provided to residential and | ||||||
12 | business end users by an Electing Provider in the | ||||||
13 | geographic area that is included in its notice of election | ||||||
14 | pursuant to subsection (b) shall be classified as | ||||||
15 | competitive for purposes of this Article without further | ||||||
16 | Commission review. | ||||||
17 | (3) If an Electing Provider was previously subject to | ||||||
18 | alternative regulation pursuant to Section 13-506.1 of | ||||||
19 | this Article, the alternative regulation plan shall | ||||||
20 | terminate in whole for all services subject to that plan | ||||||
21 | and be of no force or effect, without further Commission | ||||||
22 | review or action, when the Electing Provider's residential | ||||||
23 | local exchange telecommunications service in each MSA in | ||||||
24 | its telecommunications service area in the State has been | ||||||
25 | classified as competitive pursuant to either subdivision | ||||||
26 | (c)(1) or (c)(2) of this Section. |
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1 | (4) The service packages described in Section 13-518 | ||||||
2 | shall be classified as competitive for purposes of this | ||||||
3 | Section if offered by an Electing Provider in a geographic | ||||||
4 | area in which local exchange telecommunications service | ||||||
5 | has been classified as competitive pursuant to either | ||||||
6 | subdivision (c)(1) or (c)(2) of this Section. | ||||||
7 | (d) Consumer choice safe harbor options. | ||||||
8 | (1) Through July 1, 2013, an Electing Provider in each | ||||||
9 | of the MSA or Exchange areas classified as competitive | ||||||
10 | pursuant to subdivision (c)(1) or (c)(2) of this Section | ||||||
11 | shall offer to all residential customers who choose to | ||||||
12 | subscribe the following optional packages of services | ||||||
13 | priced at the same rate levels in effect on January 1, 2010 | ||||||
14 | (A) A basic package, which shall consist of a | ||||||
15 | stand-alone residential network access line and 30 | ||||||
16 | local calls. If the Electing Provider offers a | ||||||
17 | stand-alone residential access line and local usage on | ||||||
18 | a per call basis, the price for the basic package shall | ||||||
19 | be the Electing Provider's applicable price in effect | ||||||
20 | on January 1, 2010 for the sum of a residential access | ||||||
21 | line and 30 local calls, additional calls over 30 calls | ||||||
22 | shall be provided at the current per call rate. | ||||||
23 | However, this basic package is not required if | ||||||
24 | stand-alone residential network access lines or | ||||||
25 | per-call local usage are not offered by the Electing | ||||||
26 | Provider in the geographic area on January 1, 2010. |
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1 | (B) An extra package, which shall consist of | ||||||
2 | residential basic local exchange network access line | ||||||
3 | and unlimited local calls. The price for the extra | ||||||
4 | package shall be the Electing Provider's applicable | ||||||
5 | price in effect on January 1, 2010 for a residential | ||||||
6 | access line with unlimited local calls. | ||||||
7 | (C) A plus package, which shall consist of | ||||||
8 | residential basic local exchange network access line, | ||||||
9 | unlimited local calls, and the customer's choice of 2 | ||||||
10 | vertical services. The term "vertical services" as | ||||||
11 | used in this subsection, includes, but is not limited | ||||||
12 | to, call waiting, call forwarding, 3-way calling, | ||||||
13 | caller ID, call tracing, automatic callback, repeat | ||||||
14 | dialing, and voicemail. The price for the plus package | ||||||
15 | shall be the Electing Provider's applicable price in | ||||||
16 | effect on January 1, 2010 for the sum of a residential | ||||||
17 | access line with unlimited local calls and 2 times the | ||||||
18 | average price for the vertical features included in the | ||||||
19 | package. | ||||||
20 | (2) For those geographic areas in which local exchange | ||||||
21 | telecommunications services were classified as competitive | ||||||
22 | on the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th | ||||||
23 | General Assembly an Electing Provider in each such MSA or | ||||||
24 | Exchange area shall be subject to the same terms and | ||||||
25 | conditions as provided in commitments made by the Electing | ||||||
26 | Provider in connection with such previous competitive |
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1 | classifications, which shall apply with equal force under | ||||||
2 | this Section, except as follows: (i) the limits on price | ||||||
3 | increases on the optional packages required by this Section | ||||||
4 | shall be extended until July 1, 2013 and (ii) the price for | ||||||
5 | the extra package required by subsection (d)(1)(B) shall be | ||||||
6 | reduced by one dollar from the price in effect on January | ||||||
7 | 1, 2010. In addition, if an Electing Provider obtains a | ||||||
8 | competitive classification pursuant to subsection (c)(1) | ||||||
9 | and (c)(2), the price for the optional packages shall be | ||||||
10 | determined in such area in compliance with subsection | ||||||
11 | (d)(1), except the price for the plus package required by | ||||||
12 | subsection (d)(1) C) shall be the lower of the price for | ||||||
13 | such area or the price of the plus package in effect on | ||||||
14 | January 1, 2010 for areas classified as competitive | ||||||
15 | pursuant to subsection (c)(1). | ||||||
16 | (3) To the extent that the requirements in Section | ||||||
17 | 13-518 applied to a telecommunications carrier prior to the | ||||||
18 | effective date of this Section and that telecommunications | ||||||
19 | carrier becomes an Electing Provider in accordance with the | ||||||
20 | provisions of this Section, the requirements in Section | ||||||
21 | 13-518 shall cease to apply to that Electing Provider in | ||||||
22 | those geographic areas included in the Electing Provider's | ||||||
23 | notice of election pursuant to subsection (b) of this | ||||||
24 | Section. | ||||||
25 | (4) An Electing Provider shall make the optional | ||||||
26 | packages required by this subsection and stand-alone |
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1 | residential network access lines and local usage, where | ||||||
2 | offered, readily available to the public by providing | ||||||
3 | information, in a clear manner, to residential customers. | ||||||
4 | Information shall be made available on a website, and an | ||||||
5 | Electing Provider shall provide notification to its | ||||||
6 | customers every 6 months, provided that notification may | ||||||
7 | consist of a bill page message that provides an objective | ||||||
8 | description of the safe harbor options that includes a | ||||||
9 | telephone number and website address where the customer may | ||||||
10 | obtain additional information about the packages from the | ||||||
11 | Electing Provider. The optional packages shall be offered | ||||||
12 | on a monthly basis with no term of service requirement. An | ||||||
13 | Electing Provider shall allow online electronic ordering | ||||||
14 | of the optional packages and stand alone residential | ||||||
15 | network access lines and local usage, where offered, on its | ||||||
16 | website in a manner similar to the online electronic | ||||||
17 | ordering of its other residential services. An Electing | ||||||
18 | Provider shall comply with the Commission's existing | ||||||
19 | rules, regulations, and notices regarding medical | ||||||
20 | conditions, disconnection of service, and refusal of | ||||||
21 | service when offering or providing the optional packages | ||||||
22 | required by this subsection (d) and stand-alone | ||||||
23 | residential network access lines. The Commission shall | ||||||
24 | have the power, after notice and hearing as provided in | ||||||
25 | this Article, upon complaint or upon its own motion, to | ||||||
26 | take corrective action if the requirements of this Section |
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1 | are not complied with by an Electing Provider. | ||||||
2 | (e) Service quality and customer credits for basic local | ||||||
3 | exchange service. | ||||||
4 | (1) An Electing Provider shall meet the following | ||||||
5 | service quality standards in providing basic local | ||||||
6 | exchange service, which for purposes of this subsection | ||||||
7 | (e), includes both basic local exchange service and the | ||||||
8 | consumer choice safe harbor options required by subsection | ||||||
9 | (d) of this Section. | ||||||
10 | (A) Install basic local exchange service within 5 | ||||||
11 | business days after receipt of an order from the | ||||||
12 | customer unless the customer requests an installation | ||||||
13 | date that is beyond 5 business days after placing the | ||||||
14 | order for basic service and to inform the customer of | ||||||
15 | the Electing Provider's duty to install service within | ||||||
16 | this timeframe. If installation of service is | ||||||
17 | requested on or by a date more than 5 business days in | ||||||
18 | the future, the Electing Provider shall install | ||||||
19 | service by the date requested. | ||||||
20 | (B) Restore basic local exchange service for the | ||||||
21 | customer within 30 hours after receiving notice that | ||||||
22 | the customer is out of service. | ||||||
23 | (C) Keep all repair and installation appointments | ||||||
24 | for basic local exchange service if a customer premises | ||||||
25 | visit requires a customer to be present. The | ||||||
26 | appointment window shall be either a specific time or, |
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1 | at a maximum, a 4-hour time block during evening, | ||||||
2 | weekend, and normal business hours. | ||||||
3 | (D) Inform a customer when a repair or installation | ||||||
4 | appointment requires the customer to be present. | ||||||
5 | (2) Customers shall be credited by the Electing | ||||||
6 | Provider for violations of basic local exchange service | ||||||
7 | quality standards described in subdivision (e)(1) of this | ||||||
8 | Section. The credits shall be applied automatically on the | ||||||
9 | statement issued to the customer for the next monthly | ||||||
10 | billing cycle following the violation or following the | ||||||
11 | discovery of the violation. The next monthly billing cycle | ||||||
12 | following the violation or the discovery of the violation | ||||||
13 | means the billing cycle immediately following the billing | ||||||
14 | cycle in process at the time of the violation or discovery | ||||||
15 | of the violation, provided the total time between the | ||||||
16 | violation or discovery of the violation and the issuance of | ||||||
17 | the credit shall not exceed 60 calendar days. The Electing | ||||||
18 | Provider is responsible for providing the credits and the | ||||||
19 | customer is under no obligation to request such credits. | ||||||
20 | The following credits shall apply: | ||||||
21 | (A) If an Electing Provider fails to repair an | ||||||
22 | out-of-service condition for basic local exchange | ||||||
23 | service within 30 hours, the Electing Provider shall | ||||||
24 | provide a credit to the customer. If the service | ||||||
25 | disruption is for more than 30 hours, but not more than | ||||||
26 | 48 hours, the credit must be equal to a pro-rata |
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1 | portion of the monthly recurring charges for all basic | ||||||
2 | local exchange services disrupted. If the service | ||||||
3 | disruption is for more than 48 hours, but not more than | ||||||
4 | 72 hours, the credit must be equal to at least 33% of | ||||||
5 | one month's recurring charges for all local services | ||||||
6 | disrupted. If the service disruption is for more than | ||||||
7 | 72 hours, but not more than 96 hours, the credit must | ||||||
8 | be equal to at least 67% of one month's recurring | ||||||
9 | charges for all basic local exchange services | ||||||
10 | disrupted. If the service disruption is for more than | ||||||
11 | 96 hours, but not more than 120 hours, the credit must | ||||||
12 | be equal to one month's recurring charges for all basic | ||||||
13 | local exchange services disrupted. For each day or | ||||||
14 | portion thereof that the service disruption continues | ||||||
15 | beyond the initial 120-hour period, the Electing | ||||||
16 | Provider shall also provide an additional credit of $20 | ||||||
17 | per calendar day. | ||||||
18 | (B) If an Electing Provider fails to install basic | ||||||
19 | local exchange service as required under subdivision | ||||||
20 | (e)(1) of this Section, the Electing Provider shall | ||||||
21 | waive 50% of any installation charges, or in the | ||||||
22 | absence of an installation charge or where | ||||||
23 | installation is pursuant to the Link Up program, the | ||||||
24 | Electing Provider shall provide a credit of $25. If an | ||||||
25 | Electing Provider fails to install service within 10 | ||||||
26 | business days after the service application is placed, |
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1 | or fails to install service within 5 business days | ||||||
2 | after the customer's requested installation date, if | ||||||
3 | the requested date was more than 5 business days after | ||||||
4 | the date of the order, the Electing Provider shall | ||||||
5 | waive 100% of the installation charge, or in the | ||||||
6 | absence of an installation charge or where | ||||||
7 | installation is provided pursuant to the Link Up | ||||||
8 | program, the Electing Provider shall provide a credit | ||||||
9 | of $50. For each day that the failure to install | ||||||
10 | service continues beyond the initial 10 business days, | ||||||
11 | or beyond 5 business days after the customer's | ||||||
12 | requested installation date, if the requested date was | ||||||
13 | more than 5 business days after the date of the order, | ||||||
14 | the Electing Provider shall also provide an additional | ||||||
15 | credit of $20 per calendar day until the basic local | ||||||
16 | exchange service is installed. | ||||||
17 | (C) If an Electing Provider fails to keep a | ||||||
18 | scheduled repair or installation appointment when a | ||||||
19 | customer premises visit requires a customer to be | ||||||
20 | present as required under subdivision (e)(1) of this | ||||||
21 | Section, the Electing Provider shall credit the | ||||||
22 | customer $25 per missed appointment. A credit required | ||||||
23 | by this subdivision does not apply when the Electing | ||||||
24 | Provider provides the customer notice of its inability | ||||||
25 | to keep the appointment no later than 8:00 pm of the | ||||||
26 | day prior to the scheduled date of the appointment. |
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1 | (D) Credits required by this subsection do not | ||||||
2 | apply if the violation of a service quality standard: | ||||||
3 | (i) occurs as a result of a negligent or | ||||||
4 | willful act on the part of the customer; | ||||||
5 | (ii) occurs as a result of a malfunction of | ||||||
6 | customer-owned telephone equipment or inside | ||||||
7 | wiring; | ||||||
8 | (iii) occurs as a result of, or is extended by, | ||||||
9 | an emergency situation as defined in 83 Ill. Adm. | ||||||
10 | Code 732.10; | ||||||
11 | (iv) is extended by the Electing Provider's | ||||||
12 | inability to gain access to the customer's | ||||||
13 | premises due to the customer missing an | ||||||
14 | appointment, provided that the violation is not | ||||||
15 | further extended by the Electing Provider; | ||||||
16 | (v) occurs as a result of a customer request to | ||||||
17 | change the scheduled appointment, provided that | ||||||
18 | the violation is not further extended by the | ||||||
19 | Electing Provider; | ||||||
20 | (vi) occurs as a result of an Electing | ||||||
21 | Provider's right to refuse service to a customer as | ||||||
22 | provided in Commission rules; or | ||||||
23 | (vii) occurs as a result of a lack of | ||||||
24 | facilities where a customer requests service at a | ||||||
25 | geographically remote location, where a customer | ||||||
26 | requests service in a geographic area where the |
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1 | Electing Provider is not currently offering | ||||||
2 | service, or where there are insufficient | ||||||
3 | facilities to meet the customer's request for | ||||||
4 | service, subject to an Electing Provider's | ||||||
5 | obligation for reasonable facilities planning. | ||||||
6 | (3) Each Electing Provider shall provide to the | ||||||
7 | Commission on April 1, 2012, and annually no later than | ||||||
8 | April 1 thereafter, in a form suitable for posting on the | ||||||
9 | Commission's website, a public report that includes the | ||||||
10 | following data for basic local exchange service quality of | ||||||
11 | service: | ||||||
12 | (A) With regard to credits due in accordance with | ||||||
13 | subdivision (e)(2)(A) as a result of out-of-service | ||||||
14 | conditions lasting more than 30 hours: | ||||||
15 | (i) the total dollar amount of any customer | ||||||
16 | credits paid; | ||||||
17 | (ii) the number of credits issued for repairs | ||||||
18 | between 30 and 48 hours; | ||||||
19 | (iii) the number of credits issued for repairs | ||||||
20 | between 49 and 72 hours; | ||||||
21 | (iv) the number of credits issued for repairs | ||||||
22 | between 73 and 96 hours; | ||||||
23 | (v) the number of credits used for repairs | ||||||
24 | between 97 and 120 hours; | ||||||
25 | (vi) the number of credits issued for repairs | ||||||
26 | greater than 120 hours; and |
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1 | (vii) the number of exemptions claimed for | ||||||
2 | each of the categories identified in subdivision | ||||||
3 | (e)(2)(D). | ||||||
4 | (B) With regard to credits due in accordance with | ||||||
5 | subdivision (e)(2)(B) as a result of failure to install | ||||||
6 | basic local exchange service: | ||||||
7 | (i) the total dollar amount of any customer | ||||||
8 | credits paid; | ||||||
9 | (ii) the number of installations after 5 | ||||||
10 | business days; | ||||||
11 | (iii) the number of installations after 10 | ||||||
12 | business days; | ||||||
13 | (iv) the number of installations after 11 | ||||||
14 | business days; and | ||||||
15 | (v) the number of exemptions claimed for each | ||||||
16 | of the categories identified in subdivision | ||||||
17 | (e)(2)(D). | ||||||
18 | (C) With regard to credits due in accordance with | ||||||
19 | subdivision (e)(2)(C) as a result of missed | ||||||
20 | appointments: | ||||||
21 | (i) the total dollar amount of any customer | ||||||
22 | credits paid; | ||||||
23 | (ii) the number of any customers receiving | ||||||
24 | credits; and | ||||||
25 | (iii) the number of exemptions claimed for | ||||||
26 | each of the categories identified in subdivision |
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1 | (e)(2)(D). | ||||||
2 | (D) The Electing Provider's annual report required | ||||||
3 | by this subsection shall also include, for | ||||||
4 | informational reporting, the performance data | ||||||
5 | described in subdivisions (e)(2)(A), (e)(2)(B), and | ||||||
6 | (e)(2)(C), and trouble reports per 100 access lines | ||||||
7 | calculated using the Commission's existing applicable | ||||||
8 | rules and regulations for such measures, but not | ||||||
9 | including the existing requirements for service | ||||||
10 | standards. | ||||||
11 | (4) It is the intent of the General Assembly that the | ||||||
12 | service quality rules and customer credits in this | ||||||
13 | subsection (e) of this Section and other enforcement | ||||||
14 | mechanisms, including fines and penalties authorized by | ||||||
15 | Section 13-305, shall apply on a nondiscriminatory basis to | ||||||
16 | all Electing Providers. Accordingly, notwithstanding any | ||||||
17 | provision of any service quality rules promulgated by the | ||||||
18 | Commission, any alternative regulation plan adopted by the | ||||||
19 | Commission, or any other order of the Commission, any | ||||||
20 | Electing Provider that is subject to any other order of the | ||||||
21 | Commission and that violates or fails to comply with the | ||||||
22 | service quality standards promulgated pursuant to this | ||||||
23 | subsection (e) or any other order of the Commission shall | ||||||
24 | not be subject to any fines, penalties, customer credits, | ||||||
25 | or enforcement mechanisms other than such fines or | ||||||
26 | penalties or customer credits as may be imposed by the |
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1 | Commission in accordance with the provisions of this | ||||||
2 | subsection (e) and Section 13-305, which are to be | ||||||
3 | generally applicable to all Electing Providers. The amount | ||||||
4 | of any fines or penalties imposed by the Commission for | ||||||
5 | failure to comply with the requirements of this subsection | ||||||
6 | (e) shall be an appropriate amount, taking into account, at | ||||||
7 | a minimum, the Electing Provider's gross annual intrastate | ||||||
8 | revenue; the frequency, duration, and recurrence of the | ||||||
9 | violation; and the relative harm caused to the affected | ||||||
10 | customers or other users of the network. In imposing fines | ||||||
11 | and penalties, the Commission shall take into account | ||||||
12 | compensation or credits paid by the Electing Provider to | ||||||
13 | its customers pursuant to this subsection (e) in | ||||||
14 | compensation for any violation found pursuant to this | ||||||
15 | subsection (e), and in any event the fine or penalty shall | ||||||
16 | not exceed an amount equal to the maximum amount of a civil | ||||||
17 | penalty that may be imposed under Section 13-305. | ||||||
18 | (f) Commission jurisdiction upon election for market | ||||||
19 | regulation. Except as otherwise expressly stated in this | ||||||
20 | Section, the Commission shall thereafter have no jurisdiction | ||||||
21 | or authority over any aspect of competitive retail | ||||||
22 | telecommunications service of an Electing Provider in those | ||||||
23 | geographic areas included in the Electing Provider's notice of | ||||||
24 | election pursuant to subsection (c) of this Section, heretofore | ||||||
25 | subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission, including but | ||||||
26 | not limited to, any requirements of this Article related to the |
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1 | terms, conditions, rates, quality of service, availability, | ||||||
2 | classification or any other aspect of any of the Electing | ||||||
3 | Provider's competitive retail telecommunications services. No | ||||||
4 | Electing Provider shall commit any unfair or deceptive act or | ||||||
5 | practice in connection with any aspect of the offering or | ||||||
6 | provision of any competitive retail telecommunications | ||||||
7 | service. Nothing in this Article shall limit or affect any | ||||||
8 | provisions in the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business | ||||||
9 | Practices Act with respect to any unfair or deceptive act or | ||||||
10 | practice by an Electing Provider. | ||||||
11 | (g) Commission authority over access services upon | ||||||
12 | election for market regulation. | ||||||
13 | (1) As part of its Notice of Election for Market | ||||||
14 | Regulation, the Electing Provider shall reduce its | ||||||
15 | intrastate switched access rates to rates no higher than | ||||||
16 | its interstate switched access rates in 4 installments. The | ||||||
17 | first reduction must be made 30 days after submission of | ||||||
18 | its complete application for Notice of Election for Market | ||||||
19 | Regulation, and the Electing Provider must reduce its | ||||||
20 | intrastate switched access rates by an amount equal to 33% | ||||||
21 | of the difference between its current intrastate switched | ||||||
22 | access rates and its current interstate switched access | ||||||
23 | rates. The second reduction must be made no later than one | ||||||
24 | year after the first reduction, and the Electing Provider | ||||||
25 | must reduce its then current intrastate switched access | ||||||
26 | rates by an amount equal to 50% of the difference between |
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1 | its then current intrastate switched access rates and its | ||||||
2 | then current interstate switched access rates. The third | ||||||
3 | reduction must be made no later than one year after the | ||||||
4 | second reduction, and the Electing Provider must reduce its | ||||||
5 | then current intrastate switched access rates by an amount | ||||||
6 | equal to 50% of the difference between its then current | ||||||
7 | intrastate switched access rate and its then current | ||||||
8 | interstate switched access rates. The fourth reduction | ||||||
9 | must be made no longer than one year after the third | ||||||
10 | reduction, and the Electing Provider must reduce its | ||||||
11 | intrastate switched access rate to mirror its then current | ||||||
12 | interstate switched access rates and rate structure. | ||||||
13 | Following the fourth reduction, each Electing Provider | ||||||
14 | must continue to set its intrastate switched access rates | ||||||
15 | to mirror its interstate switched access rates and rate | ||||||
16 | structure. For purposes of this subsection, the rate for | ||||||
17 | intrastate switched access service means the composite, | ||||||
18 | per-minute rate for that service, including all applicable | ||||||
19 | fixed and traffic-sensitive charges, including, but not | ||||||
20 | limited to, carrier common line charges. | ||||||
21 | (2) Nothing in paragraph (1) of this subsection (g) | ||||||
22 | prohibits an Electing Provider from electing to offer | ||||||
23 | intrastate switched access service at rates lower than its | ||||||
24 | interstate switched access rates. | ||||||
25 | (3) The Commission shall have no authority to order an | ||||||
26 | Electing Provider to set its rates for intrastate switched |
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1 | access at a level lower than its interstate switched access | ||||||
2 | rates. | ||||||
3 | (4) The Commission's authority under this subsection | ||||||
4 | (g) shall only apply to Electing Providers under Market | ||||||
5 | Regulation. The Commission's authority over switched | ||||||
6 | access services for all other carriers is retained under | ||||||
7 | Section 13-900.2 of this Act. | ||||||
8 | (h) Safety of service equipment and facilities. | ||||||
9 | (1) An Electing Provider shall furnish, provide, and | ||||||
10 | maintain such service instrumentalities, equipment, and | ||||||
11 | facilities as shall promote the safety, health, comfort, | ||||||
12 | and convenience of its patrons, employees, and public and | ||||||
13 | as shall be in all respects adequate, reliable, and | ||||||
14 | efficient without discrimination or delay. Every Electing | ||||||
15 | Provider shall provide service and facilities that are in | ||||||
16 | all respects environmentally safe. | ||||||
17 | (2) The Commission is authorized to conduct an | ||||||
18 | investigation of any Electing Provider or part thereof. The | ||||||
19 | investigation may examine the reasonableness, prudence, or | ||||||
20 | efficiency of any aspect of the Electing Provider's | ||||||
21 | operations or functions that may affect the adequacy, | ||||||
22 | safety, efficiency, or reliability of telecommunications | ||||||
23 | service. The Commission may conduct or order an | ||||||
24 | investigation only when it has reasonable grounds to | ||||||
25 | believe that the investigation is necessary to assure that | ||||||
26 | the Electing Provider is providing adequate, efficient, |
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1 | reliable, and safe service. The Commission shall, before | ||||||
2 | initiating any such investigation, issue an order | ||||||
3 | describing the grounds for the investigation and the | ||||||
4 | appropriate scope and nature of the investigation, which | ||||||
5 | shall be reasonably related to the grounds relied upon by | ||||||
6 | the Commission in its order. | ||||||
7 | (i) Tariffs. No Electing Provider shall offer or provide | ||||||
8 | telecommunications service unless and until a tariff is filed | ||||||
9 | with the Commission that describes the nature of the service, | ||||||
10 | applicable rates and other charges, terms, and conditions of | ||||||
11 | service and the exchange, exchanges, or other geographical area | ||||||
12 | or areas in which the service shall be offered or provided. The | ||||||
13 | Commission may prescribe the form of such tariff and any | ||||||
14 | additional data or information that shall be included in the | ||||||
15 | form. Revenue received from an Electing Provider pursuant to | ||||||
16 | such tariffs shall be gross revenue for purposes of Section | ||||||
17 | 2-202 of this Act. | ||||||
18 | (j) Application of Article VII. The provisions of Sections | ||||||
19 | 7-101, 7-102, 7-103, 7-104, 7-204, 7-205, and 7-206 of this Act | ||||||
20 | are applicable to an Electing Provider offering or providing | ||||||
21 | retail telecommunications service, and the Commission's | ||||||
22 | regulation thereof, except that (1) the approval of contracts | ||||||
23 | and arrangements with affiliated interests required by | ||||||
24 | paragraph (3) of Section 7-101 shall not apply to such | ||||||
25 | telecommunications carriers provided that, except as provided | ||||||
26 | in item (2), those contracts and arrangements shall be filed |
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1 | with the Commission; (2) affiliated interest contracts or | ||||||
2 | arrangements entered into by such telecommunications carriers | ||||||
3 | where the increased obligation thereunder does not exceed the | ||||||
4 | lesser of $5,000,000 or 5% of such carrier's prior annual | ||||||
5 | revenue from noncompetitive services are not required to be | ||||||
6 | filed with the Commission; and (3) any consent and approval of | ||||||
7 | the Commission required by Section 7-102 is not required for | ||||||
8 | the sale, lease, assignment, or transfer by any Electing | ||||||
9 | Provider of any real property that is not necessary or useful | ||||||
10 | in the performance of its duties to the public. | ||||||
11 | (k) Notwithstanding other provisions of this Section, the | ||||||
12 | Commission retains its existing authority to enforce the | ||||||
13 | provisions, conditions, and requirements of the following | ||||||
14 | Sections of this Article: 13-101, 13-103, 13-201, 13-301, | ||||||
15 | 13.301.1, 13-301.2, 13-301.3, 13-303, 13-303.5, 13-304, | ||||||
16 | 13-305, 13-401, 13-401.1, 13-402, 13-403, 13-404, 13-404.1, | ||||||
17 | 13-404.2, 13-405, 13-406, 13-501.5, 13-505, 13-509 13-510, | ||||||
18 | 13-512, 13-513, 13-514, 13-515, 13-516, 13-519, 13-702, | ||||||
19 | 13-703, 13-704, 13-705, 13-706, 13-707, 13-709, 13-713, | ||||||
20 | 13-801, 13-804, 13-900, 13-900.1, 13-900.2, 13-901, 13-902, | ||||||
21 | and 13-903, which are fully and equally applicable to Electing | ||||||
22 | Providers subject to the provisions of this Section. On the | ||||||
23 | effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General | ||||||
24 | Assembly, the following Sections of this Article shall cease to | ||||||
25 | apply to Electing Providers: 13-302, 13-405.1, 13-501, 13-502, | ||||||
26 | 13-502.5, 13-503, 13-504, 13-505.2, 13-505.3, 13-505.4, |
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1 | 13-505.5, 13-505.6, 13-506.1, 13-507, 13-507.1, 13-508, | ||||||
2 | 13-508.1, 13-517, 13-518, 13-601, 13-701, and 13-712.
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3 | (220 ILCS 5/13-509) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-509)
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4 | (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2010)
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5 | Sec. 13-509.
Agreements for provisions of competitive | ||||||
6 | telecommunications
services differing from tariffs. A | ||||||
7 | telecommunications carrier may negotiate
with customers or
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8 | prospective customers to provide competitive | ||||||
9 | telecommunications service, and in
so
doing, may offer or agree | ||||||
10 | to provide such service on such terms and for
such rates or | ||||||
11 | charges as are reasonable, without regard to any
tariffs
it may | ||||||
12 | have filed with the Commission with respect to
such services. | ||||||
13 | Upon request of the Commission Within 30 days after executing | ||||||
14 | any such agreement ,
the telecommunications carrier shall | ||||||
15 | submit to the Commission written
notice of a list of any such | ||||||
16 | agreements (which list may be filed
electronically) within the | ||||||
17 | past year . The notice shall identify the general nature
of all | ||||||
18 | such agreements , the parties to each agreement, and a general
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19 | description of
differences between each agreement and the | ||||||
20 | related tariff . A copy of each such
agreement and any cost | ||||||
21 | support required to be filed with the agreement by some
other | ||||||
22 | Section of this Act shall be provided to the Commission
within | ||||||
23 | 10 business days after a request for review of the agreement is | ||||||
24 | made by
the Commission or is made to the Commission
by another | ||||||
25 | telecommunications carrier or by a party to such agreement .
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1 | Upon submitting notice to the Commission of any such agreement, | ||||||
2 | the
telecommunications carrier shall thereafter provide | ||||||
3 | service according to the
terms thereof, unless the Commission | ||||||
4 | finds, after notice and hearing, that
the continued provision | ||||||
5 | of service pursuant to such agreement
would substantially and | ||||||
6 | adversely affect the financial integrity of the
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7 | telecommunications carrier or would violate any other
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8 | provision of this Act.
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9 | Any agreement or notice entered into or submitted pursuant | ||||||
10 | to the
provisions of this Section may, in the Commission's | ||||||
11 | discretion, be accorded
proprietary treatment.
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12 | (Source: P.A. 92-22, eff. 6-30-01; 93-245, eff. 7-22-03 .)
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13 | (220 ILCS 5/13-703) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-703)
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14 | (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2010)
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15 | Sec. 13-703.
(a) The Commission shall design and implement | ||||||
16 | a program
whereby each telecommunications carrier providing | ||||||
17 | local exchange service
shall provide a telecommunications | ||||||
18 | device capable of servicing the needs of
those persons with a | ||||||
19 | hearing or speech disability together with a
single party line, | ||||||
20 | at no charge additional to the basic exchange rate, to
any | ||||||
21 | subscriber who is certified as having a hearing or speech | ||||||
22 | disability by a
licensed physician, speech-language | ||||||
23 | pathologist, audiologist or a qualified
State agency and to any | ||||||
24 | subscriber which is an organization serving the needs
of those | ||||||
25 | persons with a hearing or speech disability as determined and
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1 | specified by the Commission pursuant to subsection (d).
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2 | (b) The Commission shall design and implement a program, | ||||||
3 | whereby each
telecommunications carrier providing local | ||||||
4 | exchange service shall provide a
telecommunications relay | ||||||
5 | system, using third party intervention to connect
those persons | ||||||
6 | having a hearing or speech disability with persons of normal
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7 | hearing by way of intercommunications devices and the telephone | ||||||
8 | system, making
available reasonable access to all phases of | ||||||
9 | public telephone service to
persons who have a hearing or | ||||||
10 | speech disability. In order to design a
telecommunications | ||||||
11 | relay system which will meet the requirements of those
persons | ||||||
12 | with a hearing or speech disability available at a reasonable | ||||||
13 | cost, the
Commission shall initiate an investigation and | ||||||
14 | conduct public hearings to
determine the most cost-effective | ||||||
15 | method of providing telecommunications relay
service to those | ||||||
16 | persons who have a hearing or speech disability when using
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17 | telecommunications devices and therein solicit the advice, | ||||||
18 | counsel, and
physical assistance of Statewide nonprofit | ||||||
19 | consumer organizations that serve
persons with hearing or | ||||||
20 | speech disabilities in such hearings and during the
development | ||||||
21 | and implementation of the system. The Commission shall phase
in | ||||||
22 | this program, on a geographical basis, as soon as is | ||||||
23 | practicable, but
no later than June 30, 1990.
| ||||||
24 | (c) The Commission shall establish a rate recovery | ||||||
25 | mechanism,
authorizing charges in an amount to be determined by | ||||||
26 | the Commission
for each line of a subscriber to allow |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | telecommunications carriers
providing local exchange service | ||||||
2 | to recover costs as they are incurred
under this Section.
| ||||||
3 | (d) The Commission shall determine and specify those | ||||||
4 | organizations serving
the needs of those persons having a | ||||||
5 | hearing or speech disability that shall
receive a | ||||||
6 | telecommunications device and in which offices the equipment | ||||||
7 | shall be
installed in the case of an organization having more | ||||||
8 | than one office. For the
purposes of this Section, | ||||||
9 | "organizations serving the needs of those persons
with hearing | ||||||
10 | or speech disabilities" means centers for independent living as
| ||||||
11 | described in Section 12a of the Disabled Persons Rehabilitation | ||||||
12 | Act and
not-for-profit organizations whose primary purpose is | ||||||
13 | serving the needs of
those persons with hearing or speech | ||||||
14 | disabilities. The Commission shall direct
the | ||||||
15 | telecommunications carriers subject to its jurisdiction and | ||||||
16 | this
Section to comply with its determinations and | ||||||
17 | specifications in this regard.
| ||||||
18 | (e) As used in this Section, the phrase "telecommunications | ||||||
19 | carrier
providing local exchange service" includes, without | ||||||
20 | otherwise limiting the
meaning of the term, telecommunications | ||||||
21 | carriers which are purely mutual
concerns, having no rates or | ||||||
22 | charges for services, but paying the operating
expenses by | ||||||
23 | assessment upon the members of such a company and no other
| ||||||
24 | person.
| ||||||
25 | (f) Interconnected VoIP service providers in Illinois | ||||||
26 | shall collect and remit assessments determined in accordance |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | with this Section in a competitively neutral manner in the same | ||||||
2 | manner as a telecommunications carrier providing local | ||||||
3 | exchange service. Interconnected VoIP services shall not be | ||||||
4 | considered an intrastate telecommunications service for the | ||||||
5 | purposes of this Section, unless defined as such under federal | ||||||
6 | law or Federal Communications Commission regulation. | ||||||
7 | (Source: P.A. 88-497 .)
| ||||||
8 | (220 ILCS 5/13-704) (from Ch. 111 2/3, par. 13-704)
| ||||||
9 | (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2010)
| ||||||
10 | Sec. 13-704.
Each page of a billing statement which sets | ||||||
11 | forth charges
assessed against a customer by a | ||||||
12 | telecommunications carrier for
telecommunications service | ||||||
13 | shall reflect the telephone number or customer
account number | ||||||
14 | to which the charges are being billed. If a telecommunications | ||||||
15 | carrier offers electronic billing, customers may elect to have | ||||||
16 | their bills sent electronically. Such bills shall be | ||||||
17 | transmitted with instructions for payment. Information sent | ||||||
18 | electronically shall be deemed to satisfy any requirement in | ||||||
19 | this Section that such information be printed or written on a | ||||||
20 | customer bill. Bills may be paid electronically or by the use | ||||||
21 | of a customer-preferred financially accredited credit or debit | ||||||
22 | methodology. The billing statement
shall also contain a | ||||||
23 | separate bill identifying the amount charged as an
| ||||||
24 | infrastructure maintenance fee.
| ||||||
25 | (Source: P.A. 90-154, eff. 1-1-98 .)
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1 | (220 ILCS 5/13-712)
| ||||||
2 | (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2010)
| ||||||
3 | Sec. 13-712. Basic local exchange service quality; | ||||||
4 | customer credits.
| ||||||
5 | (a) It is the intent of the General Assembly that every | ||||||
6 | telecommunications
carrier meet
minimum service quality | ||||||
7 | standards in providing basic local exchange service on
a | ||||||
8 | non-discriminatory basis to all classes of customers.
| ||||||
9 | (b) Definitions:
| ||||||
10 | (1) (Blank) "Alternative telephone service" means, | ||||||
11 | except where technically
impracticable, a
wireless | ||||||
12 | telephone capable of making local calls, and may also | ||||||
13 | include, but is
not
limited to, call forwarding, voice | ||||||
14 | mail, or paging services .
| ||||||
15 | (2) "Basic local exchange service" means residential | ||||||
16 | and business lines
used
for local
exchange | ||||||
17 | telecommunications service as defined in Section 13-204 of | ||||||
18 | this Act,
excluding:
| ||||||
19 | (A) services that employ advanced | ||||||
20 | telecommunications capability as
defined
in Section | ||||||
21 | 706(c)(1) of the federal Telecommunications Act of | ||||||
22 | 1996;
| ||||||
23 | (B) vertical services;
| ||||||
24 | (C) company official lines; and
| ||||||
25 | (D) records work only.
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| |||||||
1 | (3) "Link Up" refers to the Link Up Assistance program | ||||||
2 | defined and
established
at 47
C.F.R. Section 54.411 et seq. | ||||||
3 | as amended.
| ||||||
4 | (c) The Commission shall promulgate service quality rules
| ||||||
5 | for basic local exchange service, which may include fines, | ||||||
6 | penalties, customer
credits, and other enforcement mechanisms. | ||||||
7 | In developing such service quality
rules, the Commission shall | ||||||
8 | consider, at a minimum, the carrier's gross annual
intrastate | ||||||
9 | revenue; the frequency, duration, and recurrence of the | ||||||
10 | violation;
and the relative harm caused to the affected | ||||||
11 | customer or other users of the
network. In imposing fines, the | ||||||
12 | Commission shall take into account
compensation or credits paid | ||||||
13 | by the telecommunications carrier to its customers
pursuant to | ||||||
14 | this Section in compensation for the violation found pursuant | ||||||
15 | to
this Section. These rules shall become effective within one | ||||||
16 | year after the
effective date of this amendatory Act of the | ||||||
17 | 92nd General Assembly.
| ||||||
18 | (d) The rules shall, at a minimum, require each | ||||||
19 | telecommunications carrier
to do all of the following:
| ||||||
20 | (1) Install basic local exchange service within 5 | ||||||
21 | business days after
receipt
of an
order from the customer | ||||||
22 | unless the customer requests an installation date that
is
| ||||||
23 | beyond 5 business days after placing the order for basic | ||||||
24 | service and to inform
the customer of its duty to install | ||||||
25 | service within this timeframe. If
installation
of
service | ||||||
26 | is requested on or by a date more than 5 business days in |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | the future,
the
telecommunications carrier shall install | ||||||
2 | service by the date requested. A
telecommunications | ||||||
3 | carrier offering basic local exchange service utilizing | ||||||
4 | the
network or network elements of another carrier shall | ||||||
5 | install new lines for
basic local exchange service within 3 | ||||||
6 | business days after provisioning of the
line or lines by | ||||||
7 | the carrier whose network or network elements are being
| ||||||
8 | utilized is complete. This
subdivision (d)(1) does not | ||||||
9 | apply to the migration of a customer between
| ||||||
10 | telecommunications carriers, so long as the customer | ||||||
11 | maintains dial tone.
| ||||||
12 | (2) Restore basic local exchange service for a customer | ||||||
13 | within 24 hours of
receiving
notice that a customer is out | ||||||
14 | of service. This provision applies to service
disruptions | ||||||
15 | that occur when a customer switches existing basic local | ||||||
16 | exchange
service from one carrier to another.
| ||||||
17 | (3) Keep all repair and installation appointments for | ||||||
18 | basic local exchange
service,
when a customer premises | ||||||
19 | visit requires a customer to be present.
| ||||||
20 | (4) Inform a customer when a repair or installation | ||||||
21 | appointment requires
the customer to be present.
| ||||||
22 | (e) The rules shall include provisions for customers to be
| ||||||
23 | credited by the
telecommunications carrier for violations of | ||||||
24 | basic local exchange service
quality
standards as described in | ||||||
25 | subsection (d).
The credits shall be applied on the statement | ||||||
26 | issued to the
customer for the next monthly billing cycle |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | following the violation or
following the discovery of the | ||||||
2 | violation.
The performance levels established in subsection | ||||||
3 | (c) are solely for the
purposes
of consumer credits and shall | ||||||
4 | not be used as performance levels for the
purposes of
assessing | ||||||
5 | penalties under Section 13-305.
At a minimum, the rules shall
| ||||||
6 | include the following:
| ||||||
7 | (1) If a carrier fails to repair an out-of-service | ||||||
8 | condition for basic
local
exchange service within 30 24 | ||||||
9 | hours, the carrier shall provide a credit to
the customer. | ||||||
10 | If the service disruption is for 48 hours or less, the
| ||||||
11 | credit must be equal to a pro-rata portion of the monthly | ||||||
12 | recurring charges for
all
local services disrupted. If the | ||||||
13 | service disruption is for more than 48
hours, but not more | ||||||
14 | than 72 hours, the credit must be equal to at least
33% of | ||||||
15 | one month's recurring charges for all local services | ||||||
16 | disrupted. If the
service disruption is for more than 72 | ||||||
17 | hours, but not more than 96
hours, the credit must be equal | ||||||
18 | to at least 67% of one month's
recurring charges for all | ||||||
19 | local services disrupted. If the service disruption
is for
| ||||||
20 | more than 96 hours, but not more than 120 hours, the credit | ||||||
21 | must be equal to
one month's recurring charges for all
| ||||||
22 | local
services disrupted. For each day or portion thereof | ||||||
23 | that the service
disruption continues beyond
the initial | ||||||
24 | 120-hour period, the carrier shall also provide either | ||||||
25 | alternative
telephone service or
an additional credit of | ||||||
26 | $20 per day , at the customers option .
|
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| |||||||
1 | (2) If a carrier fails to install basic local exchange | ||||||
2 | service as required
under subdivision (d)(1),
the carrier | ||||||
3 | shall waive 50% of
any installation charges, or in the | ||||||
4 | absence of an installation charge or where
installation is | ||||||
5 | pursuant to the Link Up
program, the carrier shall provide | ||||||
6 | a credit of $25. If a carrier fails to
install service | ||||||
7 | within 10 business days after the service application is
| ||||||
8 | placed, or fails to install service within 5 business days | ||||||
9 | after the customer's
requested installation date, if the | ||||||
10 | requested date was more than 5 business
days after the date | ||||||
11 | of the order, the carrier shall waive 100% of the
| ||||||
12 | installation charge, or in the absence of an installation | ||||||
13 | charge or where
installation is provided pursuant to the | ||||||
14 | Link Up program, the carrier shall
provide a credit of $50. | ||||||
15 | For each day that the failure to install service
continues | ||||||
16 | beyond the initial 10 business days, or beyond 5 business | ||||||
17 | days after
the customer's requested installation date, if | ||||||
18 | the requested date was more than
5 business days after the | ||||||
19 | date of the order, the
carrier shall also provide either | ||||||
20 | alternative telephone service or an
additional credit of | ||||||
21 | $20 per day , at the customer's option until service is
| ||||||
22 | installed.
| ||||||
23 | (3) If a carrier fails to keep a scheduled repair or | ||||||
24 | installation
appointment when a customer premises visit | ||||||
25 | requires a customer to be present,
the carrier shall credit | ||||||
26 | the customer $50 per missed appointment.
A credit required |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | by this subsection does not apply when the carrier provides
| ||||||
2 | the customer with 24-hour notice of its inability to keep | ||||||
3 | the appointment.
| ||||||
4 | (4) If the violation of a basic local exchange service | ||||||
5 | quality standard is
caused by a carrier other than the | ||||||
6 | carrier providing retail
service to the customer, the
| ||||||
7 | carrier providing retail service to the customer shall | ||||||
8 | credit the customer as
provided
in this Section. The | ||||||
9 | carrier causing the violation shall
reimburse the carrier | ||||||
10 | providing retail service the amount credited the
customer.
| ||||||
11 | When applicable, an interconnection agreement shall govern | ||||||
12 | compensation between
the carrier causing the violation, in | ||||||
13 | whole or in part, and the retail carrier
providing the | ||||||
14 | credit to the customer.
| ||||||
15 | (5) (Blank) When alternative telephone service is | ||||||
16 | appropriate, the customer may
select one of the alternative | ||||||
17 | telephone services offered by the carrier. The
alternative | ||||||
18 | telephone service shall be provided at no
cost to the | ||||||
19 | customer for the provision of local service .
| ||||||
20 | (6) Credits required by this subsection do not apply if | ||||||
21 | the violation of a
service
quality standard:
| ||||||
22 | (i) occurs as a result of a negligent or willful | ||||||
23 | act on the part of the
customer;
| ||||||
24 | (ii) occurs as a result of a malfunction of | ||||||
25 | customer-owned telephone
equipment or inside wiring;
| ||||||
26 | (iii) occurs as a result of, or is extended by, an |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | emergency situation
as defined in
Commission rules;
| ||||||
2 | (iv) is extended by the carrier's inability to gain | ||||||
3 | access to the
customer's
premises due to the customer | ||||||
4 | missing an appointment, provided that the
violation is | ||||||
5 | not further extended by the carrier;
| ||||||
6 | (v) occurs as a result of a customer request to | ||||||
7 | change the scheduled
appointment, provided
that the | ||||||
8 | violation is not further extended by the carrier;
| ||||||
9 | (vi) occurs as a result of a carrier's right to | ||||||
10 | refuse service to a
customer as provided in Commission | ||||||
11 | rules; or
| ||||||
12 | (vii) occurs as a result of a lack of facilities | ||||||
13 | where a customer
requests service at a geographically
| ||||||
14 | remote location, a customer requests service in a | ||||||
15 | geographic area where the
carrier is not currently | ||||||
16 | offering service, or there are insufficient facilities
| ||||||
17 | to meet the customer's request for service, subject to | ||||||
18 | a carrier's obligation
for reasonable facilities | ||||||
19 | planning.
| ||||||
20 | (7) The provisions of this subsection are cumulative | ||||||
21 | and shall not in any
way
diminish or replace other civil or | ||||||
22 | administrative remedies available to a
customer
or a class | ||||||
23 | of customers.
| ||||||
24 | (f) The rules shall require each telecommunications | ||||||
25 | carrier to provide to
the Commission, on
a quarterly basis and | ||||||
26 | in a form suitable for posting on the Commission's
website, a |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | public
report that includes performance data for basic local | ||||||
2 | exchange service quality
of service.
The performance data shall | ||||||
3 | be disaggregated for each geographic area and each
customer | ||||||
4 | class of the
State for
which the telecommunications carrier | ||||||
5 | internally monitored performance data as
of a date
120 days | ||||||
6 | preceding the effective date of this amendatory Act of the 92nd
| ||||||
7 | General Assembly. The report shall
include, at
a minimum, | ||||||
8 | performance data on basic local exchange service | ||||||
9 | installations,
lines out of
service for more than 24 hours, | ||||||
10 | carrier response to customer calls, trouble
reports, and
missed | ||||||
11 | repair and installation commitments.
| ||||||
12 | (g) The Commission shall establish and implement carrier to | ||||||
13 | carrier
wholesale service
quality rules and establish remedies | ||||||
14 | to ensure enforcement of the rules.
| ||||||
15 | (Source: P.A. 92-22, eff. 6-30-01 .)
| ||||||
16 | (220 ILCS 5/13-804 new) | ||||||
17 | (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2010) | ||||||
18 | Sec. 13-804. Broadband investment. Increased investment | ||||||
19 | into broadband infrastructure is critical to the economic | ||||||
20 | development of this State and a key component to the retention | ||||||
21 | of existing jobs and the creation of new jobs. The removal of | ||||||
22 | regulatory uncertainty will attract greater private-sector | ||||||
23 | investment in broadband infrastructure. Notwithstanding other | ||||||
24 | provisions of this Article: | ||||||
25 | (A) the Commission shall have the authority to certify |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | providers of wireless services, including, but not limited | ||||||
2 | to, private radio service, public mobile service, or | ||||||
3 | commercial mobile service, as those terms are defined in 47 | ||||||
4 | U.S.C. 332 on the effective date of this amendatory Act of | ||||||
5 | the 96th General Assembly or as amended thereafter, to | ||||||
6 | provide telecommunications services in Illinois; | ||||||
7 | (B) the Commission shall have the authority to certify | ||||||
8 | providers of wireless services, including, but not limited | ||||||
9 | to, private radio service, public mobile service, or | ||||||
10 | commercial mobile service, as those terms are defined in 47 | ||||||
11 | U.S.C. 332 on the effective date of this amendatory Act of | ||||||
12 | the 96th General Assembly or as amended thereafter, as | ||||||
13 | eligible telecommunications carriers in Illinois, as that | ||||||
14 | term has the meaning prescribed in 47 U.S.C. 214 on the | ||||||
15 | effective date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General | ||||||
16 | Assembly or as amended thereafter; | ||||||
17 | (C) the Commission shall have the authority to register | ||||||
18 | providers of fixed or non-nomadic Interconnected VoIP | ||||||
19 | service as Interconnected VoIP service providers in | ||||||
20 | Illinois in accordance with Section 401.1 of this Article; | ||||||
21 | (D) the Commission shall have the authority to require | ||||||
22 | providers of Interconnected VoIP service to participate in | ||||||
23 | universal service support programs and in hearing and | ||||||
24 | speech disability programs, as those terms are defined in | ||||||
25 | this Article; and | ||||||
26 | (E) the Commission shall have the authority to require |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | certificated telecommunications carriers, registered | ||||||
2 | Interconnected VoIP providers, and Facilities-based | ||||||
3 | Providers of Broadband Connections to End User Locations to | ||||||
4 | provide information pursuant to Section 13-407. | ||||||
5 | Except to the extent permitted by and consistent with | ||||||
6 | federal law, the regulations of the Federal Communications | ||||||
7 | Commission, this Article, or Article XXI or XXII of this Act, | ||||||
8 | the Commission shall not regulate the rates, terms, conditions, | ||||||
9 | quality of service, availability, classification, or any other | ||||||
10 | aspect of service regarding (i) broadband services, (ii) | ||||||
11 | Internet Protocol enabled services, including Interconnected | ||||||
12 | VoIP service, (iii) information services, as defined in 47 | ||||||
13 | U.S.C. 153(20) on the effective date of this amendatory Act of | ||||||
14 | the 96th General Assembly or as amended thereafter, or (iv) | ||||||
15 | wireless services, including, but not limited to, private radio | ||||||
16 | service, public mobile service, or commercial mobile service, | ||||||
17 | as those terms are defined in 47 U.S.C. 332 on the effective | ||||||
18 | date of this amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly or as | ||||||
19 | amended thereafter. | ||||||
20 | (220 ILCS 5/13-900.1 new) | ||||||
21 | (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2010) | ||||||
22 | Sec. 13-900.1. Authority over 9-1-1 rates and terms of | ||||||
23 | service. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Article, | ||||||
24 | the Commission retains its full authority over the rates and | ||||||
25 | service quality as they apply to 9-1-1 system providers, |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | including the Commission's existing authority over | ||||||
2 | interconnection with 9-1-1 system providers and 9-1-1 systems. | ||||||
3 | The rates, terms, and conditions for 9-1-1 service shall be | ||||||
4 | tariffed and shall be provided in the manner prescribed by this | ||||||
5 | Act and shall be subject to the applicable laws, including | ||||||
6 | rules or regulations adopted and orders issued by the | ||||||
7 | Commission or the Federal Communications Commission. The | ||||||
8 | Commission retains this full authority regardless of the | ||||||
9 | technologies utilized or deployed by 9-1-1 system providers. | ||||||
10 | (220 ILCS 5/13-900.2 new) | ||||||
11 | (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2010) | ||||||
12 | Sec. 13-900.2. Access services. | ||||||
13 | (a) This Section shall apply to switched access rates | ||||||
14 | charged by all carriers other than Electing Providers as | ||||||
15 | provided in subsection (b) of Section 13-506.2 of this Act. | ||||||
16 | (b) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (c) of this | ||||||
17 | Section, the rates of any telecommunications carrier, | ||||||
18 | including, but not limited to, competitive local exchange | ||||||
19 | carriers, providing intrastate switched access service shall | ||||||
20 | be no higher than the carrier's rates for interstate switched | ||||||
21 | access service. For purposes of this Section, the intrastate | ||||||
22 | switched access rates of a carrier shall be considered to be no | ||||||
23 | higher than its interstate switched access rates if the | ||||||
24 | carrier's intrastate rates are no higher than its interstate | ||||||
25 | rates within 30 days after the effective date of this |
| |||||||
| |||||||
1 | amendatory Act of the 96th General Assembly or, in the event a | ||||||
2 | carrier's interstate switched access rates are reduced, within | ||||||
3 | one day after the interstate access rate reduction takes | ||||||
4 | effect. For purposes of this Section, the rate for intrastate | ||||||
5 | switched access service means the composite, per-minute rate | ||||||
6 | for that service, including all applicable fixed and | ||||||
7 | traffic-sensitive charges, including, but not limited to, | ||||||
8 | carrier common line charges. | ||||||
9 | (c) Subsection (b) of this Section shall not apply to | ||||||
10 | incumbent local exchange carriers serving 35,000 or fewer | ||||||
11 | access lines. | ||||||
12 | (d) Nothing in subsection (b) of this Section prohibits a | ||||||
13 | telecommunications carrier from electing to offer intrastate | ||||||
14 | switched access service at rates lower than its interstate | ||||||
15 | rates. | ||||||
16 | (e) The Commission shall have no authority to order a | ||||||
17 | telecommunications carrier to set its rates for intrastate | ||||||
18 | switched access at a level lower than its interstate switched | ||||||
19 | access rates. | ||||||
20 | (220 ILCS 5/13-1200) | ||||||
21 | (Section scheduled to be repealed on July 1, 2010) | ||||||
22 | Sec. 13-1200. Repealer. This Article is repealed July 1, | ||||||
23 | 2013 2010 . | ||||||
24 | (Source: P.A. 95-9, eff. 6-30-07; 96-24, eff. 6-30-09.)
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| |||||||
1 | (220 ILCS 5/13-402.1 rep.) | ||||||
2 | (220 ILCS 5/13-408 rep.) | ||||||
3 | (220 ILCS 5/13-409 rep.) | ||||||
4 | (220 ILCS 5/13-505.1 rep.) | ||||||
5 | (220 ILCS 5/13-505.7 rep.) | ||||||
6 | (220 ILCS 5/13-506 rep.) | ||||||
7 | (220 ILCS 5/13-511 rep.) | ||||||
8 | (220 ILCS 5/13-802 rep.) | ||||||
9 | Section 15. The Public Utilities Act is amended by | ||||||
10 | repealing Sections 13-402.1, 13-408, 13-409, 13-505.1, | ||||||
11 | 13-505.7, 13-506, 13-511, and 13-802. | ||||||
12 | Section 90. Nothing in this amendatory Act of the 96th | ||||||
13 | General Assembly shall be construed or interpreted to abate, | ||||||
14 | suspend, alter, or otherwise affect (i) any decision or (ii) | ||||||
15 | any condition that is rendered by the Illinois Commerce | ||||||
16 | Commission pursuant to Section 7-204 of the Illinois Public | ||||||
17 | Utilities Act between April 1, 2010 and July 1, 2010. | ||||||
18 | Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon | ||||||
19 | becoming law.".
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