Sec. 16-247n. Certification of telephone company's operations support systems interface. Rates. Proceedings.
Sec. 16-247n. Certification of telephone company's operations support systems interface. Rates. Proceedings. (a) The department shall (1) not later than September 1, 1999, require each telephone company serving seventy-five thousand or more
retail customers to release complete and usable specifications and business rules relating
to the interface into its operations support systems for unbundled network elements
and combinations thereof and any changes to the interface must be in accordance with
industry standards and consistent with change management principles, (2) not later than
November 1, 2000, certify that any such telephone company's operations support systems interface associated with network elements and combinations thereof are fully
functional at commercial volumes, (3) not later than April 1, 2000, establish standards
pursuant to section 16-247p, and (4) not later than July 1, 2000, determine the rates for
such unbundled network elements and combinations thereof, pursuant to section 16-247b. If a ruling of the Federal Communications Commission pursuant to 47 USC
251(c)(3) or 47 USC 251(d)(2) necessitates a subsequent change in such rates, the department shall redetermine such rates no more than two hundred seventy days after such
ruling is issued.
(b) Upon petition by any telephone company serving fewer than seventy-five thousand retail customers, the department shall conduct a proceeding to certify that such
telephone company's operations support systems interface associated with network elements and combinations thereof are fully functional at commercial volumes.
(P.A. 99-222, S. 4, 19.)
History: P.A. 99-222 effective June 29, 1999.