Current through Register Vol. 55, No. 13, March 29, 2025
(a)
Promotional offerings.
Competitive telecommunications carriers and local exchange telecommunication
companies are not required to provide cost support for tariff filings involving
a promotional service offering for noncompetitive services so long as the
promotional offering does not result in any type of price increase to customers
unless requested by the Commission.
(1) A
local exchange telecommunications company and competitive telecommunications
carrier tariff filings involving a promotional service offering for
noncompetitive services will become effective on 1-day's notice. Local exchange
telecommunications companies and competitive telecommunications carriers shall
provide a 10-day advance notice to any resellers that purchase the promotional
service offering from the local exchange telecommunications company or
competitive telecommunications carrier making the tariff filing.
(3) Competitive telecommunications carriers
and local exchange telecommunications companies that file promotional service
offerings for noncompetitive services under this subsection shall confirm in
their filing that subscribers to the promotional service offerings will be
required to respond affirmatively at any time the promotional service is being
offered if they wish to continue the service beyond the promotional
period.
(4) Promotional service
offerings may not have a duration of longer than 6 months in any rolling
12-month period which commences as of the effective date of the filed
promotion.
(5) No filing
requirements exist for promotional service offerings involving competitive
services.
(b)
Bundled service packages. Local exchange telecommunications
companies and competitive telecommunications carriers are relieved from an
obligation to provide cost support for tariff filings involving bundled service
packages unless cost support documentation is requested by the Commission.
(1) When a local exchange telecommunications
company's or competitive telecommunications carrier's bundled service packages
include both competitive and noncompetitive services, these bundled service
packages shall meet any applicable State law or regulation regarding cost
justification, the prohibition from using revenues earned or expenses incurred
in conjunction with noncompetitive services to subsidize competitive services
and the standards regarding discrimination and unfair pricing.
(3) No filing requirements exist in this
subpart for a local exchange telecommunications company's or competitive
telecommunications carrier's bundled service packages composed entirely of
competitive services.
The provisions of this § 53.60 issued under the
Public Utility Code,
66 Pa.C.S. §
§
501 and
1501; and section 612 of
The Administrative Code of 1929 (71 P.S. §
232); amended under
66 Pa.C.S. §
3019(b)(2) and
(3).
This section cited in 52 Pa. Code §
53.57 (relating to
definitions).
