Terms Used In Tennessee Code 65-30-110

  • carrier: includes any person, firm, corporation, company, association or partnership owning, operating or managing a business of providing radio services to the public on a for-hire basis and under such circumstances as would require a license by the federal communications commission as a miscellaneous common carrier in the domestic public land mobile radio service. See Tennessee Code 65-30-103
  • Commission: means the Tennessee public utility commission. See Tennessee Code 65-30-103

Whenever the commission finds that public convenience and necessity require the interconnection of the radio communications facilities of a certificated radio common carrier with the telephone facilities of a land line telephone utility serving all or part of the certificated territory of the radio common carrier, and that such common carrier and land line telephone utility have failed to agree upon such interconnection or the terms and conditions or compensation for the same, the commission may, upon petition of either party, order that such interconnection be permitted, and prescribe a reasonable compensation and reasonable terms and conditions for such interconnection.