Telecommunications Act
Idaho · Railroads and Other Public Utilities · §§ 62-601 to 62-625 · 35 sections
Overview
The act governs the provision of telecommunications service within the state, requiring telecommunications providers to register, exempting private telecommunications service from its coverage, and giving the regulatory commission broad rulemaking authority along with jurisdiction over complaints about the costs of services and over nondiscriminatory intercarrier compensation and billing records. Its central mechanism is a framework for interconnection among carriers: providers owe a duty to interconnect, agreements are reached through voluntary negotiation with mediation and arbitration available when negotiation fails, and both arbitration decisions and the resulting agreements are subject to commission approval. The act also sets wholesale pricing standards and rules for pricing individual network elements, prohibits certain subsidies, creates an expedited complaint proceeding, provides for determining which carriers are eligible for universal service support, and preserves the operation of laws governing anticompetitive conduct.
Editorial summary generated from the text of this act. It is not part of the statute — read the sections below for the operative language.
Sections covered
- Idaho Code § 62-601Short title
- Idaho Code § 62-602Legislative intent
- Idaho Code § 62-603Definitions
- Idaho Code § 62-604Applicability of chapter
- Idaho Code § 62-605Procedure for notice of election — Commission continuing authority
- Idaho Code § 62-606Requirement for price list or tariff filing — Withdrawal of tariffs or price lists
- Idaho Code § 62-607Averaging of message telecommunication service rates
- Idaho Code § 62-607AProhibited activities by a telephone corporation
- Idaho Code § 62-608Commission authority to require interconnection for the purpose of providing message telecommunication services
- Idaho Code § 62-608AInterLATA service restrictions
- Idaho Code § 62-609Imputed and nondiscriminatory access charges — Commission authority
- Idaho Code § 62-610Universal service fund
- Idaho Code § 62-610APurpose
- Idaho Code § 62-610BDefinitions
- Idaho Code § 62-610CUniversal service
- Idaho Code § 62-610DEligible telecommunications carriers
- Idaho Code § 62-610EDesignating service and support areas
- Idaho Code § 62-610FHigh-cost support — Administration — Transition
- Idaho Code § 62-611Regulatory fees
- Idaho Code § 62-612Restriction on withdrawal or discontinuance of service
- Idaho Code § 62-613Subsidization of certain services not allowed
- Idaho Code § 62-614Resolution of inter-telephone corporation disputes
- Idaho Code § 62-615Authority to implement the telecommunications act — Suspension of obligations of rural carriers — Promulgation of rules or procedures
- Idaho Code § 62-616Commission authority to resolve subscriber complaints
- Idaho Code § 62-616ADuty of telephone company to customers relating to unauthorized charges by a third-party service provider
- Idaho Code § 62-617Telephone corporation antitrust liability
- Idaho Code § 62-618Preemption
- Idaho Code § 62-619Procedure before commission — Appeals
- Idaho Code § 62-620Civil penalty for violation
- Idaho Code § 62-621Severability
- Idaho Code § 62-622Regulation of basic local exchange rates, services and price lists
- Idaho Code § 62-622ACommission authority to establish minimum pricing of basic local exchange service
- Idaho Code § 62-623Subsidy reform — Universal service — Report to legislature
- Idaho Code § 62-624Proceedings prior to enactment ratified
- Idaho Code § 62-625— 62-654. Uniform bills of lading act. [Repealed.]
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