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	Local exchange carrier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Local exchange carrier is a regulatory term in telecommunications for so-called local telephone company.
		Residential local exchange carrier service typically charges m+p(q+q-n)/2, where m is the monthly minimum and covers the first n calls, p is the price per local call, and q is the total quantity of calls consumed.
		Local toll calls are each billed at m+(t-1)p, where m is minimum charge for a local toll call, p is the per-minute charge, and t is the duration of the call in minutes.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Local_exchange_carrier (568 words)

	Competitive local exchange carrier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC), is a telecommunications provider company (sometimes called a "carrier") that competes with other, already established carriers (generally the incumbent).
		Local exchange carriers (LECs) are divided into incumbent (ILECs) and competitive (CLECs).
		The ILECs are usually the original, monopoly LEC in a given area, and receive different regulatory treatment from the newer CLECs.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Competitive_local_exchange_carrier (362 words)

	Incumbent local exchange carrier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		ILEC or Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier is a local telephone company that was in existence at the time of the breakup of ATandT, for example, the Baby Bells and GTE.
		Duty to negotiate.--The duty to negotiate in good faith the particular terms and conditions of agreements to the duties described for a local exchange carrier and the specific ones for the ILEC.
		An incumbent local exchange carrier shall provide such unbundled network elements in a manner that allows requesting carriers to combine such elements in order to provide such telecommunications service.
	www.peekskill.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/ILEC (623 words)

	LEC (Local Exchange Carrier): Teledatacom Glossary
		LEC is the term for a public telephone company in the U.S. that provides local service.
		LEC companies are also sometimes referred to as "telcos." A "local exchange" is the local "central office" of an LEC.
		Local exchanges connect to other local exchanges within a local access and transport area (LATA) or to interexchange carriers (IXCs) such as long-distance carriers AT&T, MCI, and Sprint.
	www.artesyncp.com /resources/glossary/lec.html (146 words)

	* LEC - (Telecom): Definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		LEC (Local Exchange Carrier) - A Telecommunications Carrier (TC) under the state/local Public Utilities Act that provide local exchange telecommunications services...
		Sometimes called the B-Band Cellular carrier, this refers to the original cellular licenses that were granted to the LEC in the region.
		In most exchanges the LEC is a Bell operating company, but hundreds of independent telephone companies are LECs...
	www.bestknows.com /telecom/lec.html (305 words)

	Glossary of Telephony Terms
		Access is originating when it is for access to the network of the local exchange carrier (LEC) serving the location where the call originates and is terminating when it is for access of the LEC serving the location where the call terminates.
		Generally all affected subscribers are polled as to their interest in EAS prior to the local exchange carrier (LEC) filing the tariff converting from toll to EAS for a specific area.
		Local exchange carriers' (LECs) NTS costs are recovered through carrier common line (CCL) access charges from interexchange carriers (IXCs), subscriber line charges (SLC) from subscribers, and long term support (LTS) payments from LECs no longer participating in the National Exchange Carrier Association (NECA) common line (CL) pool.
	www.opastco.org /pr/glossary.htm (2892 words)

	IOWA TELECOM TECHNOLOGIES LLC Securities Registration Statement (S-1/A) Legal Proceedings
		In addition to the access charge system, our incumbent local exchange carrier also is subject to the requirements of the Communications Act and the FCC that impose on telecommunications carriers a duty to establish reciprocal compensation arrangements for the transport and termination of telecommunications between telecommunications carriers.
		Local exchange carriers generally may not prohibit or place unreasonable restrictions on the resale of their local services at retail rates.
		As we are a local exchange carrier subject to the interconnection requirements of the Telecom Act, we are required to provide interconnection after receipt of a bona fide request for such arrangements from a competing carrier.
	sec.edgar-online.com /2004/08/13/0001193125-04-139411/section24.asp (5937 words)

	* Local Exchange Carrier - (Telecom): Definition
		Local Exchange Carrier Local telephone company, providing connections between local points or to long distance carriers for extended connections.
		A Local Exchange Carrier is any telephone company that offers service in a specific area.
		Verizon's offer of a comprehensive package and fully integrated billing is unique among its competitors, including long-distance carriers, competitive local exchange carriers and cable TV companies.
	en.mimi.hu /telecom/local_exchange_carrier.html (325 words)

	SF 2380 ... the election of a local exchange carrier to be price-r...
		the election of a local exchange carrier to be price-r...
		If the local exchange carrier 1 9 rejects a modification to its plan, the board shall reject the 1 10 plan without prejudice to the local exchange carrier to submit 1 11 another plan.
		After 2 24 the determination of the local exchange carrier's regulated 2 25 revenue requirement pursuant to the rate proceeding, the local 2 26 exchange carrier shall not immediately implement rates 2 27 designed to recover that regulated revenue requirement.
	www2.legis.state.ia.us /GA/77GA/Legislation/SF/02300/SF02380/980317.html (1009 words)

	Iowa Code 2003: Section 476.101
		If, after notice and opportunity for hearing, the board determines that a competitive local exchange service provider possesses market power in its local exchange market or markets, the board may apply such other provisions of this chapter to a competitive local exchange service provider as it deems appropriate.
		Such access, use, and interconnection shall be on terms and conditions no less favorable than those the local exchange carrier provides to itself and its affiliates for the provision of local exchange, access, and toll services.
		Local exchange carriers shall file tariffs or price lists in accordance with board rules with respect to the services, features, functions, and capabilities offered to comply with board rules on unbundling of essential facilities and interconnection.
	www.legis.state.ia.us /IACODE/2003/476/101.html (792 words)

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		“Competitive Local Exchange Carrier or CLEC” is a Canadian carrier, as defined in section 2 of the Act, recognized as a CLEC by the CRTC pursuant to Decision 97-8.
		LEC traffic originated in an exchange may be delivered to [the Company/CLEC] for termination to end-customers in another exchange that has EAS with the originating exchange (i.e., traffic from exchanges within an ILEC’s local calling area).
		In addition, the LEC is responsible for all costs associated with transporting the traffic to the terminating exchange including the provisioning of trunks between the LEC and [the Company/CLEC] POI in the terminating exchange.
	www.crtc.gc.ca /cisc/COMMITTE/C-docs/clecv19_e.doc (10798 words)

	Statute: 47 USC 251.
		The duty to afford access to the poles, ducts, conduits, and rights-of-way of such carrier to competing providers of telecommunications services on rates, terms, and conditions that are consistent with section 224 of this title.
		A local exchange carrier with fewer than 2 percent of the Nation's subscriber lines installed in the aggregate nationwide may petition a State commission for a suspension or modification of the application of a requirement or requirements of subsection (b) or (c) of this section to telephone exchange service facilities specified in such petition.
		(B)(i) on February 8, 1996, was deemed to be a member of the exchange carrier association pursuant to section 69.601(b) of the Commission's regulations (47 C.F.R. 69.601(b)); or (ii) is a person or entity that, on or after February 8, 1996, became a successor or assign of a member described in clause (i).
	techlawjournal.com /telecom/47usc251.htm (1386 words)

	AZ Corp. Comm. -- Rules and Regulations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The appropriate cost of providing basic local exchange telephone service for purposes of determining AUSF support for a small local exchange carrier shall be the embedded cost of the incumbent provider.
		For an intermediate local exchange carrier, the AUSF support area shall be either all exchanges in Arizona served by that carrier, or such other support area as may be approved by the Commission.
		For a large local exchange carrier, the AUSF support area shall be U.S. census block groups, and the appropriate cost of providing basic local exchange telephone service for purposes of determining AUSF support shall be the Total Service Long Run Incremental Cost.
	www.cc.state.az.us /rules/usfund/2-1202.htm (364 words)

	Incumbent local exchange carrier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		(i) on such date of enactment, was deemed to be a member of the exchange carrier association pursuant to section 69.601(b) of the Commission's regulations (47 C.F.R. 69.601(b)); or
		Duty to negotiate.--The duty to negotiate in good faith the particular terms and conditions of agreements to fulfill the duties described for a local exchange carrier and the specific ones for the ILEC.
		unbundled access.--The duty to provide, to any requesting telelecommunications carrier for the provision of a telecommunications service, nondiscriminatory access to network elements on an unbundled basis at any technically feasible point on rates, terms, and conditions that are just, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory in accordance with the terms and conditions of the agreement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/ILEC (592 words)

	Broadband Deployment and Competition Enhancement Act of 2001
		`(A) IN GENERAL- An incumbent local exchange carrier has the duty to provide collocation at its central offices in accordance with the rules of the Commission established in accordance with section 251(c)(6) for equipment to be used in the provision of advanced service.
		`(A) IN GENERAL- An incumbent local exchange carrier to which subsections (c) and (e) have ceased to apply because of a determination by a State under paragraph (2) may petition the State for a reinstatement of the application of subsections (c) and (e) to such carrier.
		with the rule with which the carrier was found, under paragraph (2), not to have complied, the application of subsections (c) and (e) to the carrier shall be reinstated as of the date of that subsequent final determination.
	www.theorator.com /bills107/s1126.html (1355 words)

	Competitive Local Exchange Carrier
		A competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC), is a telecommunications provider company (sometimes called a "carrier") that competes with other, already established carriers (specially the incumbent).
		The local exchange carrier is further divided into Incumbent (ILECs) and Competitive (CLECs) (their concurrence) based on their local market share, and receive different regulatory treatments.
		With the recent Triennial Review in February of 2004, a large portion of rules setforth by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 are currently being rewritten.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/competitive_local_exchange_carrier (276 words)

	Competitive local exchange carrier and telephone service provider.
		Unfortunately, it's not, which forces CLECs to follow the lead of incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs) and install the same expensive "big iron" equipment, whether it fits properly into their business plans or not.
		Because of the questions, established carriers have shied away from the new switches.
		Larger carriers are not faced with an all-or-nothing proposition.
	www.itltd.net /press1.htm (2462 words)

	SF 2380 ... the election of a local exchange carrier to be price-r...
		The calculation shall 3 30 be based upon the annual report of such carrier and other 3 31 information provided to the consumer advocate by the carrier.
		The bill provides 4 20 that the utility board must approve, modify, or reject the 4 21 plan of any local exchange carrier to elect price regulation 4 22 by no later than 90 days after such plan is filed with the 4 23 board.
		Currently, such rates must be reduced by 4 30 50 percent of such difference between intrastate and 4 31 interstate access service rates with a further reduction to 4 32 the average interstate access service rates within 90 days of 4 33 the date the plan becomes effective.
	www2.legis.state.ia.us /GA/77GA/Legislation/SF/02300/SF02380/980227.html (992 words)

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		An “incumbent local exchange carrier” (ILEC) means a local exchange carrier or its successor that provided local exchange service in a defined service territory in Maine on February 8, 1996 or that is designated as an ILEC pursuant to 47 U.S.C. § 251(h)(2).
		No later than May 30, 2003, all local exchange carriers shall establish intrastate access rates that are less than or equal to the most recent interstate rates for that carrier that are in effect on May 30, 2003.
		On or before May 30 of every two years thereafter (all odd-numbered years), all local exchange carriers shall reestablish intrastate access rates that are less than or equal to the interstate rates for that carrier that are in effect on May 30 of that year.
	www.state.me.us /mpuc/orders/2002/2002-687att1.htm (413 words)

	Delaware PSC - Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier (ILEC)
		Delaware PSC - Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier (ILEC)
		Originally founded as the Diamond State Telephone Company in 1897, Verizon Delaware, Inc. is the Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier (ILEC) in the State of Delaware.
		The current Delaware Carrier to Carrier Guidelines and Performance Plan are available from Verizon's website.
	www.state.de.us /delpsc/telecomm/ilec.shtml (782 words)

	local exchange carrier (LEC and CLEC) alternatives: discounted local dial tone for local bell service. how to save ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The local phone service market is made available by what used to be Bell Telephone and was divided up into Regional Bell Operating Companies, also called RBOC's.
		Each individual Bell company is also referred to as a Local Exchange Carrier, also known as a LEC.
		Finally, the LEC's are having competition enter, and yet another term was created, CLEC, the Competitive Local Exchange Carrier.
	www.net-savings.net /localdialtone.htm (530 words)

	Telephony: No finger pointing - responsibilities of incumbent carrier and competitive local exchange carrier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The 1996 Telecommunications Act is forcing local exchange carriers to unbundle their networks, allowing competitive LECs to use portions of the incumbents' networks to provide competing services to the same customer base.
		While incumbent carriers often will choose the 105A remote test unit to test their metallic pairs, CLECs may prefer the 107A/F remote test units for digital loop carrier testing.
		When local number portability goes into effect, customers will be able to keep the same phone number when they change carriers.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0TPY/is_n4_v233/ai_19798713 (1423 words)

	LOCAL EXCHANGE CARRIER
		The local phone companies, which can be either a Bell Operating Company or an independent.
		The divestiture created local exchange carriers for management of local telephone lines and switches, and provision of local phone calls within their business area, as well as the long-distance calls originating or terminating in their business area.
		Specialty definitions using "LOCAL EXCHANGE CARRIER": 10 XXX ♦ alternative operator services ♦ LEC, LEC billing, LEC card, LEC charges.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/LOCAL+EXCHANGE+CARRIER (543 words)

	ILEC - a Whatis.com definition - see also: incumbent local exchange carrier
		ILEC - a Whatis.com definition - see also: incumbent local exchange carrier
		ILECs are in contradistinction to CLEC (competitive local exchange carriers).
		A "local exchange" is the local "central office" of an LEC.
	searchnetworking.techtarget.com /sDefinition/0,,sid7_gci214021,00.html (199 words)

	Definition: local exchange carrier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		local exchange carrier (LEC): A local telephone company, i.e.
		, a communications common carrier that provides ordinary local voice-grade telecommunications service under regulation within a specified service area.
		This HTML version of Telecom Glossary 2K was last generated on Wed May 8 15:36:48 MDT 2002.
	www.its.bldrdoc.gov /projects/devglossary/_local_exchange_carrier.html (45 words)

	NSC Secures Competitive Local Exchange Carrier Certification in Tennessee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Greenville, SC, September 3, 1998 – NewSouth Communications, a competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC), announced today that the Tennessee Regulatory Authority has unanimously approved NewSouth’ s certification of necessity and convenience.
		Founded in 1997, NewSouth Communications is a facilities-based competitive local exchange carrier, offering a wide variety of packaged telecommunications services, including local, local distance, and enhanced services to business customers in BellSouth service areas.
		NewSouth plans to deploy digital switches in all nine BellSouth states and presently is certified to provide local exchange and long distance services in South Carolina and Tennessee.
	www.newsouth.com /news/press_releases/a177.asp (218 words)

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