N.Y. Public Service Law § 102: IntraLATA presubscribed interexchange carrier-change charge study

§ 102. IntraLATA presubscribed interexchange carrier-change charge

study. 1. As used in this section, the following terms have the

following meanings:

(a) "Provider of telephone service" means a telephone corporation that

provides intraLATA or local exchange telephone service to end-use

customers.

(b) "Customer change of use charges" means intraLATA presubscribed

interexchange carrier-change charges, that any provider of residential

or single-line business telephone service levies upon the customer for

the customer's change in intraLATA presubscribed interexchange carrier

service or complete termination of that service.

(c) "Customer local calling plan" means any residential or single-line

business telephone plan, exclusively for the purpose of completing

regional intraLATA calls, offered by any telegraph corporation or

telephone corporation, subject to section ninety of this article.

2. The commission shall conduct a study to analyze trends associated

with customer change of use charges related to changes of a customer's

local calling plan and determine the extent to which these changes take

place and the actual cost for a provider of telephone service to make

all the necessary changes associated with such a change. From its

findings, the commission shall publish a report regarding the activity

related to changes in local calling plans and the costs associated with

the changes of such plans. The report must be published within one

hundred twenty days of the effective date of this section. A copy of the

report must be furnished to the temporary president of the senate, the

speaker of the assembly, the chairperson of the senate standing

committee on energy and telecommunications, and the chairperson of the

assembly standing committee on corporations, authorities and

commissions.

3. In cases where the customer's calling plan was altered by, or on

behalf of, a telegraph corporation and/or telephone corporation subject

to section ninety of this article, other than the customer's provider of

telephone service, the telegraph corporation or telephone corporation

shall pay the customer change of use charges to the provider of

telephone service.

4. The commission shall notify customers of its findings on its

official world wide web website.