Arizona Administrative Code
Title 14 - PUBLIC SERVICE CORPORATIONS; CORPORATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS; SECURITIES REGULATION
Chapter 2 - CORPORATION COMMISSION - FIXED UTILITIES
Article 13 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS INTERCONNECTION AND UNBUNDLING
Section R14-2-1303 - Points of Interconnection
Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 38, September 20, 2024
A. Incumbent LECs and NELECs shall, by mutual agreement, arrange for the points of interconnection of their respective networks.
B. Each company interconnecting pursuant to the provisions of this Section shall be responsible for building and maintaining its own facilities to the point of interconnection. Companies are free to negotiate points of interconnection that involve the recurring and non-recurring compensation by one carrier for the transport facilities of another carrier.
C. Each company interconnecting pursuant to the provisions of this Section shall be responsible for the traffic that originates on its network up to the point of interconnection, and for the terminating traffic handed off at the point of interconnection to the call's destination.
D. Should the companies negotiating interconnection arrangements not be able to agree upon the points of interconnection, written notice to that effect shall be made to the Commission Staff by the carrier responding to the interconnection request. The notice shall contain a detailed description of the request itself and why interconnection at the point requested is not feasible.
The Arizona Corporation Commission has determined that the following Section is exempt from the Attorney General approval provisions of the Arizona Administrative Procedure Act (A.R.S. § 41-1041) by a court order (State ex. rel. Corbin v. Arizona Corporation Commission, 174 Ariz. 216 848 P.2d 301 (App. 1992)).
