Current through September 24, 2024
(1) The purpose of this rule chapter is to
provide specific rules for Incumbent Local Telecommunications Service Providers
and Competing Local Telecommunications Service Providers to ensure the
continuation of reliable and affordable Enhanced 911 Emergency Service after
deregulation occurs as provided for in T.C.A. §
7-86-101, et
seq.
(2) For a period of
four (4) years from June 6, 1995, the date of the Act, within each Emergency
Communications District, the Incumbent Enhanced 911 Emergency Service Provider
shall continue to offer Enhanced 911 service and shall:
(a) Provide an Enhanced 911 Tandem Central
Office to:
1. Provide Enhanced 911 trunks to
each Public Service Answering Point (PSAP).
2. Deliver Automatic Number Identification
(ANI) with each 911 call.
3.
Provide Selective Routing to route 911 calls to the proper PSAP.
(b) Provide Automatic ECD
Routing.
(c) Provide a Data
Management System (DMS) to provide Automatic Location Identification (ALI) with
each Enhanced 911 call.
(d) Offer
Interconnection Agreements to all other Incumbent Local Telecommunications
Service Providers, Competing Local Telecommunications Service Providers and
Shared Tenant Service Providers which will provide for:
1. The connection of dedicated 911
Centralized Automatic Message Accounting (CAMA) trunks to the Enhanced 911
Tandem Central office.
2. The
acceptance of Automatic Number Identification (ANI) associated with the
Enhanced 911 call.
3. The
acceptance of the daily update of Automatic Location Identification (ALI)
database information by the DMS.
4.
The assurance of confidentiality in the use of the ALI data-base information so
provided and a stipulation that such data-base will be restricted to providing
emergency response to in-progress Enhanced 911 calls.
5. Fair and equitable agreements with the
other Service Providers referenced above based on the Incumbent Enhanced 911
Service Provider billing the ECD for its portion of the Enhanced 911 service as
provided for in the tariffs, and the other service providers billing the ECD
for their portions of the Enhanced 911 service.
(e) Provide an Enhanced 911 trouble-reporting
center for the reporting of all Enhanced 911 repair, maintenance, data-base and
technical problems by an ECD and be responsible for determining and dispatching
the trouble report to the appropriate Local Service Provider for
correction.
(f) Maintain Enhanced
Universal Emergency Number Service (E911) tariffs at the rate on file with the
Authority consistent with price regulations and the requirements of the
Telecommunications Reform Act of 1995.
(g) Bill, collect and remit the Enhanced 911
fees associated with its subscribers (including non-facilities based resellers)
to the appropriate Emergency Communications District unless authorized by an
Emergency Communications District to do otherwise on a customer specific basis;
and to provide a mutually agreeable means of auditing the subscriber base by
number and type by the Emergency Communications District auditor.
(3) All other Incumbent Local
Telecommunications Service Providers, Competing Local Telecommunications
Service Providers and Shared Tenant Service Providers providing basic local
exchange telephone service or its equivalent shall enter into Interconnection
Agreements with the Incumbent Enhanced 911 Emergency Service Provider to
provide Emergency 911 Service and shall:
(a)
Provide dedicated CAMA trunks to the Incumbent Enhanced 911 Service Providers
designated demarcation point in the network.
(b) Provide Automatic Number Identification
(ANI) of the 911 caller with each 911 call.
(c) Provide Automatic ECD Routing.
(d) Provide an initial download and daily
down-loads of existing subscribers, new subscribers, changes to subscriber's
information and the disconnection of existing subscribers to the Incumbent
Enhanced 911 Service Providers DMS system.
(e) Bill, collect and remit the Enhanced 911
fees associated with its subscribers (including non-facilities based resellers)
to the appropriate Emergency Communications District unless authorized by an
Emergency Communications District to do otherwise on a customer specific basis;
and to provide a mutually agreeable means of auditing the subscriber base by
number and type by the Emergency Communications District auditor.
(f) Bill the ECD for its reasonable cost to
provide E-911 Service to the District for its subscribers.
(4) After June 6, 1999, the incumbent
Enhanced 911 Service Provider or the dominant Local Telecommunications Service
Provider within an ECD territory shall be required to offer Enhanced 911
service as provided for in Paragraph (2) above to the ECD at a reasonable cost
until such time as the Authority determines that an ECD has a minimum of two
(2) or more Enhanced 911 Service Provider alternatives based on cost, service
and support to choose Enhanced 911 service from within the ECD
territory.
Authority: T.C.A. §§
65-2-102,
65-3-105, 65-4-101, 65-4-104,
65-4-124, and 65-5-108.
