Sec. 69.110  Entrance facilities.

    (a) A flat-rated entrance facilities charge expressed in dollars and 
cents per unit of capacity shall be assessed upon all interexchange 
carriers and other persons that use telephone company facilities between 
the interexchange carrier or other person's point of demarcation and the 
serving wire center.
    (b)(1) For telephone companies subject to price cap regulation, 
initial entrance facilities charges based on special access channel 
termination rates for equivalent voice grade, DS1, and DS3 services as 
of September 1, 1992, adjusted for changes in the price cap index 
calculated for the July 1, 1993 annual filing for telephone companies 
subject to price cap regulation, generally shall be presumed reasonable 
if the benchmark defined in Sec. 69.108 is satisfied. Entrance 
facilities charges may be distance-sensitive. Distance shall be measured 
as airline kilometers between the point of demarcation and the serving 
wire center.
    (2) For telephone companies not subject to price cap regulation, 
entrance facilities charges based on special access channel termination 
rates for

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equivalent voice grade, DS1, and DS3 services generally shall be 
presumed reasonable if the benchmark defined in Sec. 69.108 is 
satisfied. Entrance facilities charges may be distance-sensitive. 
Distance shall be measured as airline kilometers between the point of 
demarcation and the serving wire center.
    (c) If the telephone company employs distance-sensitive rates:
    (1) A distance-sensitive component shall be assessed for use of the 
transmission facilities, including any intermediate transmission circuit 
equipment between the end points of the entrance facilities; and
    (2) A nondistance-sensitive component shall be assessed for use of 
the circuit equipment at the ends of the transmission links.
    (d) Telephone companies shall apply only their shortest term special 
access rates in setting entrance facilities charges.
    (e) Except as provided in paragraphs (f), (g), and (h) of this 
section, telephone companies shall not offer entrance facilities based 
on term discounts or volume discounts for multiple DS3s or any other 
service with higher volume than DS3.
    (f) Except in the situations set forth in paragraphs (g) and (h) of 
this section, telephone companies may offer term and volume discounts in 
entrance facilities charges within each study area used for the purpose 
of jurisdictional separations, in which interconnectors have taken 
either:
    (1) At least 100 DS1-equivalent cross-connects for the transmission 
of switched traffic (as described in Sec. 69.121(a)(1) of this chapter) 
in offices in the study area that the telephone company has assigned to 
the lowest priced density pricing zone (zone 1) under an approved 
density pricing zone plan as described in Secs. 61.38(b)(4) and 61.49(k) 
of this chapter; or
    (2) An average of at least 25 DS1-equivalent cross-connects for the 
transmission of switched traffic per office assigned to the lowest 
priced density pricing zone (zone 1).
    (g) In study areas in which the telephone company has implemented 
density zone pricing, but no offices have been assigned to the lowest 
price density pricing zone (zone 1), telephone companies may offer term 
and volume discounts in entrance facilities charges within the study 
area when interconnectors have taken at least 5 DS1-equivalent cross-
connects for the transmission of switched traffic (as described in 
Sec. 69.121(a)(1) of this chapter) in offices in the study area.
    (h) In study areas in which the telephone company has not 
implemented density zone pricing, telephone companies may offer term and 
volume discounts in entrance facilities charges when interconnectors 
have taken at least 100 DS1-equivalent cross-connects for the 
transmission of switched traffic (as described in Sec. 69.121(a)(1) of 
this chapter) in offices in the study area.

[ 57 FR 54720 , Nov. 20, 1992, as amended at  58 FR 41190  and 41191, Aug. 
3, 1993;  58 FR 44950 , Aug. 25, 1993;  58 FR 48763 , Sept. 17, 1993;  59 FR 10304 , Mar. 4, 1994;  60 FR 50121 , Sept. 28, 1995]