Texas Utilities Code

§ 55.044 — EXEMPTION

UT § 55.044Title 2. PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATORY ACT · Part C. TELECOMMUNICATIONS UTILITIES · Ch. 55. REGULATION OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES · Art. C. EXPANDED TOLL-FREE LOCAL CALLING AREAS

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(a)The commission may not require an incumbent local exchange company serving the petitioning or requested exchange to expand the company's toll-free local calling area under this subchapter if:

(1)the incumbent local exchange company has fewer than 10,000 access lines;

(2)the petitioning or requested exchange is served by a telephone cooperative corporation;

(3)extended area service or extended metropolitan service is available between the exchanges;

(4)the petitioning or requested exchange is a metropolitan exchange; or

(5)the commission determines that the company has shown that to serve the area is not geographically or technologically feasible.

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Legislative history

Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.