Title 66, PUBLIC UTILITIES

2004 Repeal. Section 3006 was repealed November 30, 2004, P.L.1398, No.183, effective immediately.

2004 Repeal. Section 3007 was repealed November 30, 2004, P.L.1398, No.183, effective immediately.

2004 Repeal. Section 3008 was repealed November 30, 2004, P.L.1398, No.183, effective immediately.

2004 Repeal. Section 3009 was repealed November 30, 2004, P.L.1398, No.183, effective immediately.

2004 Amendment. Section 3010 (Reserved) was added November 30, 2004, P.L.1398, No.183, effective immediately.

The General Assembly finds and declares that it is the policy of this Commonwealth to: (1) Strike a balance between mandated deployment and market-driven deployment of broadband facilities and advanced services throughout this Commonwealth and to continue alternative regulation o…

The following words and phrases when used in this chapter shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise: "Advanced service." A retail telecommunications service that, regardless of transmission medium or technology, is capabl…

(a) General rule.--An alternative form of regulation plan and network modernization plan approved by the commission for a local exchange telecommunications company as of December 31, 2003, shall remain valid and effective except as may be amended at the election of the local exch…

(a) Continuation of approved plan.--A local exchange telecommunications company that does not elect an option under subsection (b) shall remain subject to its network modernization plan in effect as of December 31, 2003, without revision or modification except by agreement under …

(a) Inflation offset.-- (1) Except as otherwise provided in paragraphs (2) and (3), a local exchange telecommunications company with an alternative form of regulation containing a price stability mechanism that files an amended network modernization plan under section 3014(b)(1),…

(a) Commission determination of protected, retail nonprotected and retail noncompetitive services as competitive.-- (1) A local exchange telecommunications company may petition the commission for a determination of whether a protected or retail noncompetitive service or other bus…

(a) General rule.--The commission may not require a local exchange telecommunications company to reduce access rates except on a revenue-neutral basis. (b) Refusal to pay access charges prohibited.--No person or entity may refuse to pay tariffed access charges for interexchange s…

(a) Competitive and noncompetitive services.--Interexchange services provided by interexchange telecommunications carriers shall be competitive services. (b) Rate regulation.-- (1) The commission may not fix or prescribe the rates, tolls, charges, rate structures, rate base, rate…

(a) General rule.--The commission may certify more than one telecommunications carrier to provide local exchange telecommunications service in a specific geographic location. The certification shall be granted upon a showing that it is in the public interest and that the applican…