Title 47, Part 51 — Interconnection

Basis and purpose.

Applicability to negotiated agreements.

Terms and definitions.

General duty.

Resale.

Number portability.

Dialing parity: General.

Local dialing parity.

Nondiscriminatory access: Telephone numbers, operator services, directory assistance services, and directory listings.

Access to rights of way.

Reciprocal compensation.

Application of additional requirements.

Presumption of acceptability for deployment of an advanced services loop technology.

Provision of information on advanced services deployment.

Binder group management.

Significant degradation of services caused by deployment of advanced services.

Duty to negotiate.

[Reserved]

Interconnection.

Duty to provide access on an unbundled basis to network elements.

Use of unbundled network elements.

Nondiscriminatory access to unbundled network elements.

[Reserved]

Combination of unbundled network elements.

Conversion of unbundled network elements and services.

Standards for requiring the unbundling of network elements.

Eligibility criteria for access to certain unbundled network elements.

Specific unbundling requirements.

Assumption of responsibility by the Commission.

Methods of obtaining interconnection and access to unbundled elements under section 251 of the Act.

Standards for physical collocation and virtual collocation.

Notice of network changes: Public notice requirement.

Notice of network changes: Content of notice.

Notice of network changes: Methods for providing notice.

Notice of network changes: Timing of notice.

Notice of network changes: Short term notice, objections thereto and objections to copper retirement notices.

Notice of network changes: Confidential or proprietary information.

State authority.

Carriers eligible for suspension or modification under section 251(f)(2) of the Act.

[Reserved]

Scope.

General pricing standard.

Forward-looking economic cost.

General rate structure standard.

Rate structure standards for specific elements.

Forward-looking economic cost per unit.

Proxies for forward-looking economic cost.

Application of access charges.

Scope of resale rules.

Resale obligation of all local exchange carriers.

Additional obligations of incumbent local exchange carriers.

Wholesale pricing standard.

Determination of avoided retail costs.

[Reserved]

Restrictions on resale.

Withdrawal of services.

Assessment of end user common line charge on resellers.

Purpose of this subpart.

Scope of transport and termination pricing rules.

Non-Access reciprocal compensation obligation of LECs.

LECs' rates for transport and termination.

[Reserved]

Rate structure for transport and termination.

Symmetrical reciprocal compensation.

Bill-and-keep arrangements.

Interim transport and termination pricing.

[Reserved]

Commission action upon a state commission's failure to act to carry out its responsibility under section 252 of the Act.

Procedures for Commission notification of a state commission's failure to act.

The Commission's authority over proceedings and matters.

Arbitration and mediation of agreements by the Commission pursuant to section 252(e)(5) of the Act.

Availability of agreements to other telecommunications carriers under section 252(i) of the Act.

Purpose and scope of transitional access service pricing rules.

Definitions.

Implementation.

Transition of price cap carrier access charges.

Transition of rate-of-return carrier access charges.

Access reciprocal compensation rates for competitive LECs.

Transition for VoIP-PSTN traffic.

Additional provisions applicable to Access Stimulation traffic.

Recovery mechanism for price cap carriers.

Revenue recovery for Rate-of-Return Carriers.

Reporting and monitoring.