This rule is amended to simplify, streamline, and clarify its provisions. Docket No. 080641-TP.

PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

RULE NO: RULE TITLE
25-4.071: Adequacy of Service
PURPOSE AND EFFECT: This rule is amended to simplify, streamline, and clarify its provisions. Docket No. 080641-TP.
SUMMARY: This rule is amended to delete obsolete provisions concerning trunking, and to delete unnecessary and duplicative intercept service requirements.
SUMMARY OF STATEMENT OF ESTIMATED REGULATORY COSTS: The rule amendments benefit the Commission, companies, and customers by having a more simple, streamlined, and clarified rule, and companies’ administrative costs would likely decrease.
Any person who wishes to provide information regarding a statement of estimated regulatory costs, or provide a proposal for a lower cost regulatory alternative must do so in writing within 21 days of this notice.
SPECIFIC AUTHORITY: 350.127(2) FS.
LAW IMPLEMENTED: 364.01(4), 364.03, 364.15, 364.17, 364.18, 364.183, 364.19, 364.386 FS.
IF REQUESTED WITHIN 21 DAYS OF THE DATE OF THIS NOTICE, A HEARING WILL BE SCHEDULED AND ANNOUNCED IN FAW.
Pursuant to the provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act, any person requiring special accommodations to participate in this workshop/meeting is asked to advise the agency at least 48 hours before the workshop/meeting by contacting: Office of Commission Clerk, 2540 Shumard Oak Blvd., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0850, [phone]. If you are hearing or speech impaired, please contact the agency using the Florida Relay Service, 1(800)955-8771 (TDD) or 1(800)955-8770 (Voice).
THE PERSON TO BE CONTACTED REGARDING THE PROPOSED RULE IS: Kathryn G.W. Cowdery, Office of General Counsel, 2540 Shumard Oak Blvd., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0850, [phone]

THE FULL TEXT OF THE PROPOSED RULE IS:

25-4.071 Adequacy of Service.

(1) Each telecommunications company shall provide switching equipment, trunking, and associated facilities within its operating territory for the handling of local and toll traffic, designed and engineered on the basis of realistic forecasts of growth so that during the average busy season busy hour at least 97 percent of all calls offered to any trunk group (toll connecting, inter-office, extended area service) shall not encounter an all-trunk busy condition.

(1)(2) Telephone calls to valid numbers shall should encounter a ring-back tone, line busy signal, or non-working number intercept facility (operator or recording) after completion of dialing. The call completion standards established for such calls by category of call is as follows:

(a) Intra-office Calls – 95 percent,

(b) Inter-office Calls – 95 percent,

(c) Extended Area Calls – 95 percent, and

(d) Intra-LATA DDD Calls – 95 percent.

(3) All telephone calls to invalid telephone numbers shall encounter an operator or suitable recorded intercept facility, preferably a recording other than the non-working number recording used for valid number calls.

(4) Intercept service shall be as outlined in Rule 25-4.074, F.A.C.

(2)(5) No change.

Specific Authority 350.127(2) FS. Law Implemented 364.01(4), 364.03, 364.15, 364.17, 364.18, 364.183, 364.19, 364.386 FS. History–Revised 12-1-68, Amended 3-31-76, Formerly 25-4.71, Amended 6-24-90, 3-10-96,________.

NAME OF PERSON ORIGINATING PROPOSED RULE: Dale Mailhot, Division of Regulatory Compliance, 2540 Shumard Oak Blvd., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0850, [phone]
NAME OF AGENCY HEAD WHO APPROVED THE PROPOSED RULE: Florida Public Service Commission
DATE PROPOSED RULE APPROVED BY AGENCY HEAD: January 6, 2009
DATE NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULE DEVELOPMENT PUBLISHED IN FAW: Vol. 34, No. 39, September 26, 2008