(1) No incumbent telephone corporation, or eligible telecommunications carrier as defined in section 62-610B(1), Idaho Code, shall require a residential or small business customer, as a condition of receiving basic local exchange service, to purchase or subscribe to telecommunication services other than one (1) access line for the provision of basic local exchange service.
(2)  A telephone corporation that has made the election provided in sections 62-604 and 62-605, Idaho Code, with reference to basic local exchange service, shall not increase its stand-alone basic local exchange rate to residential or small business customers in any local exchange calling area to an amount that is higher than that telephone corporation’s stand-alone basic local exchange rate for residential or small business customers in the local exchange calling area having the highest number of basic local exchange service residential or business customers served by the telephone corporation within the state.

Terms Used In Idaho Code 62-607A

  • Basic local exchange rate: shall mean the monthly charge imposed by a telephone corporation for basic local exchange service, but shall not include any charges resulting from action by a federal agency or taxes or surcharges imposed by a governmental body which are separately itemized and billed by a telephone corporation to its customers. See Idaho Code 62-603
  • Basic local exchange service: means the provision of access lines to residential and small business customers with the associated transmission of two-way interactive switched voice communication within a local exchange calling area. See Idaho Code 62-603
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Local exchange calling area: means a geographic area encompassing one (1) or more local communities as described in maps, tariffs, rate schedules, price lists, or other descriptive material filed with the commission by a telephone corporation, within which area basic local exchange rates rather than message telecommunication service rates apply. See Idaho Code 62-603
  • Small business customers: shall mean a business entity, whether an individual, partnership, corporation or any other business form, to whom telecommunication services are furnished for occupational, professional or institutional purposes, and which business entity does not subscribe to more than five (5) access lines which are billed to a single billing location. See Idaho Code 62-603
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories; and the words "United States" may include the District of Columbia and territories. See Idaho Code 73-114
  • Telephone corporation: means every corporation or person, their lessees, trustees, receivers or trustees appointed by any court whatsoever, providing telecommunication services for compensation within this state, provided that municipal, cooperative, or mutual nonprofit telephone companies shall be included in this definition only for the purposes of sections 62-610 and 62-617 through 62-620, Idaho Code. See Idaho Code 62-603
(3)  "Stand-alone basic local exchange rate," as used herein, means the monthly charge made by a telephone corporation to a residential or small business basic local exchange service customer for a single line that is not included in a package of services or price discounted in a promotional offering. "Stand-alone basic local exchange rate" does not include any charges resulting from action by a federal agency or taxes or surcharge imposed by a governmental body that are separately itemized and billed by a telephone corporation to its customers.