Part 51 — Interconnection
Subpart A — General Information
Subpart B — Telecommunications Carriers
Subpart C — Obligations of All Local Exchange Carriers
- § 51.201— Resale.
- § 51.203— Number portability.
- § 51.205— Dialing parity: General.
- § 51.207— Local dialing parity.
- § 51.217— Nondiscriminatory access: Telephone numbers, operator services, directory assistance services, and directory listings.
- § 51.219— Access to rights of way.
- § 51.221— Reciprocal compensation.
- § 51.223— Application of additional requirements.
- § 51.230— Presumption of acceptability for deployment of an advanced services loop technology.
- § 51.231— Provision of information on advanced services deployment.
- § 51.232— Binder group management.
- § 51.233— Significant degradation of services caused by deployment of advanced services.
Subpart D — Additional Obligations of Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers
- § 51.301— Duty to negotiate.
- § 51.305— Interconnection.
- § 51.307— Duty to provide access on an unbundled basis to network elements.
- § 51.309— Use of unbundled network elements.
- § 51.311— Nondiscriminatory access to unbundled network elements.
- § 51.315— Combination of unbundled network elements.
- § 51.316— Conversion of unbundled network elements and services.
- § 51.317— Standards for requiring the unbundling of network elements.
- § 51.318— Eligibility criteria for access to certain unbundled network elements.
- § 51.319— Specific unbundling requirements.
- § 51.320— Assumption of responsibility by the Commission.
- § 51.321— Methods of obtaining interconnection and access to unbundled elements under section 251 of the Act.
- § 51.323— Standards for physical collocation and virtual collocation.
- § 51.325— Notice of network changes: Public notice requirement.
- § 51.327— Notice of network changes: Content of notice.
- § 51.329— Notice of network changes: Methods for providing notice.
- § 51.331— Notice of network changes: Timing of notice.
- § 51.333— Notice of network changes: Short term notice, objections thereto and objections to copper retirement notices.
- § 51.335— Notice of network changes: Confidential or proprietary information.
Subpart E — Exemptions, Suspensions, and Modifications of Requirements of Section 251 of the Act
Subpart F — Pricing of Elements
- § 51.501— Scope.
- § 51.503— General pricing standard.
- § 51.505— Forward-looking economic cost.
- § 51.507— General rate structure standard.
- § 51.509— Rate structure standards for specific elements.
- § 51.511— Forward-looking economic cost per unit.
- § 51.513— Proxies for forward-looking economic cost.
- § 51.515— Application of access charges.
Subpart G — Resale
Subpart H — Reciprocal Compensation for Transport and Termination of Telecommunications Traffic
- § 51.700— Purpose of this subpart.
- § 51.701— Scope of transport and termination pricing rules.
- § 51.703— Non-Access reciprocal compensation obligation of LECs.
- § 51.705— LECs' rates for transport and termination.
- § 51.709— Rate structure for transport and termination.
- § 51.711— Symmetrical reciprocal compensation.
- § 51.713— Bill-and-keep arrangements.
- § 51.715— Interim transport and termination pricing.
Subpart I — Procedures for Implementation of Section 252 of the Act
- § 51.801— Commission action upon a state commission's failure to act to carry out its responsibility under section 252 of the Act.
- § 51.803— Procedures for Commission notification of a state commission's failure to act.
- § 51.805— The Commission's authority over proceedings and matters.
- § 51.807— Arbitration and mediation of agreements by the Commission pursuant to section 252(e)(5) of the Act.
- § 51.809— Availability of agreements to other telecommunications carriers under section 252(i) of the Act.
Subpart J — Transitional Access Service Pricing
- § 51.901— Purpose and scope of transitional access service pricing rules.
- § 51.903— Definitions.
- § 51.905— Implementation.
- § 51.907— Transition of price cap carrier access charges.
- § 51.909— Transition of rate-of-return carrier access charges.
- § 51.911— Access reciprocal compensation rates for competitive LECs.
- § 51.913— Transition for VoIP-PSTN traffic.
- § 51.914— Additional provisions applicable to Access Stimulation traffic.
- § 51.915— Recovery mechanism for price cap carriers.
- § 51.917— Revenue recovery for Rate-of-Return Carriers.
- § 51.919— Reporting and monitoring.