§  51.325   Notice of network changes: Public notice requirement.

   (a) An incumbent local exchange carrier (“LEC”) must provide public
   notice regarding any network change that:

   (1) Will affect a competing service provider's performance or ability
   to provide service;

   (2) Will affect the incumbent LEC's interoperability with other service
   providers; or

   (3) Will result in a copper retirement, which is defined for purposes
   of this subpart as:

   (i) The removal or disabling of copper loops, subloops, or the feeder
   portion of such loops or subloops; or

   (ii) The replacement of such loops with fiber-to-the-home loops or
   fiber-to-the-curb loops, as those terms are defined in § 51.319(a)(3).

   (b) For purposes of this section, interoperability means the ability of
   two or more facilities, or networks, to be connected, to exchange
   information, and to use the information that has been exchanged.

   (c) For the purposes of § § 51.325 through 51.335, the term services
   means telecommunications services or information services.

   [ 61 FR 47351 , Sept. 6, 1996, as amended at  64 FR 14148 , Mar. 24, 1999;
    68 FR 52305 , Sept. 2, 2003;  69 FR 77954 , Dec. 29, 2004;  80 FR 63371 ,
   Oct. 19, 2015;  82 FR 61477 , Dec. 28, 2017;  83 FR 31675 , July 9, 2018]