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...ensure that the service is available, adequate, and reliable, consistent with applicable industry standards. (B) The public utilities commission shall adopt rules prescribing the following standards for the provision of basic local exchange service, and shall adopt no other rules regarding that service except as expressly authorized in this chapter: (1) Basic local exchange service shall be installed within ...

...ntain access to 9-1-1 service on a residential customer's line for a minimum of fourteen consecutive days immediately following any disconnection for nonpayment of a customer's telephone exchange service.

...able to obtain reasonable and comparatively priced voice service upon the carrier's withdrawal or abandonment of basic local exchange service, the customer may file a petition with the public utilities commission not later than ninety days prior to the effective date of the withdrawal or abandonment. If a residential customer is identified by the collaborative process established under Section 749.10 of H.B. 64 of th...

...ation, including agreements under the "Telecommunications Act of 1996," 110 Stat. 56, 47 U.S.C. 251 and 252, as amended; (2) Any right or obligation under federal law or rules; (3) The carrier-access requirements under section 4927.15 of the Revised Code; (4) Any right or obligation under section 4905.71 of the Revised Code; (5) Any state law or rule adopted under this title related to wholesale rights or obligat...

...evised Code, impose on any provider of telecommunications service, wireless service, or internet protocol-enabled services any notice requirement, withdrawal or abandonment restrictions, buildout requirements, or any other regulatory requirement or restriction that is not generally applicable to the service or the provider in other contexts.

...c local exchange service, or any other telecommunications service, to the occupants of multitenant real estate, including, but not limited to, apartments, condominiums, subdivisions, office buildings, or office parks, if the owner, operator, or developer of the multitenant real estate does any of the following to the benefit of any other telecommunications service provider: (a) Permits only one provider of telecommu...

...nt local exchange carrier, within the twelve months prior to September 13, 2010, increased the carrier's rates for basic local exchange service for an exchange area, the incumbent local exchange carrier, during any subsequent twelve-month period, may alter the carrier's rates for basic local exchange service for the exchange area downward by any amount, but not below the carrier's incremental cost, or upward by not m...

...ange carrier owned and operated exclusively by and solely for its customers may alter its rates for basic local exchange service upward by any amount and at any time.

...t necessary in order to comply with the eligibility requirements prescribed by the federal communications commission for the federal universal service high-cost program. Upward alterations may be ordered to be phased in over a period not to exceed three years if the commission determines that a phase-in is necessary to protect the public interest.

...vice for the exchange area within the twelve months prior to September 13, 2010. (b) The commission made a determination that the exchange area qualified for alternative regulation of basic local exchange service under Chapter 4901:1-4 of the Ohio Administrative Code as that chapter existed on September 13, 2010. (c) The carrier filed an application for the exchange area that was approved or deemed approved under d...

...ates for basic local exchange service under section 4927.12, 4927.121, or 4927.122 of the Revised Code shall provide not less than thirty days' notice to the public utilities commission and to affected customers. (B) Division (A) of this section also applies to an incumbent local exchange carrier altering its rates for basic local exchange service in an exchange area for which the carrier has been granted an exemp...

...The rates, terms, and conditions for basic local exchange service and for installation and reconnection fees for basic local exchange service shall be tariffed in the manner prescribed by rule adopted by the public utilities commission.

...n eligible telecommunications carrier under 47 C.F.R. 54.201 shall implement lifeline service throughout the carrier's traditional service area for its eligible residential customers. (1) Lifeline service shall consist of all of the following: (a) Monthly access line service at a recurring discount to the monthly basic local exchange service rate that provides for the maximum contribution of federally available ass...

... that is a telephone toll service provider to offer discounts for operator-assisted and direct-dial services for persons with communication disabilities.

...-1 service provided in this state by a telephone company or a telecommunications carrier and each of the following provided in this state by a telephone company shall be approved and tariffed in the manner prescribed by rule adopted by the public utilities commission and shall be subject to the applicable laws, including rules or regulations adopted and orders issued by the commission or the federal communications co...

...e inconsistent with or prohibited by federal law, including federal regulations. (B) The commission shall not establish pricing for such unbundled elements, resale, or interconnection that is inconsistent with or prohibited by federal law, including federal regulations, and shall comply with federal law, including federal regulations, in establishing such pricing.

...7 and 4927.124 of the Revised Code, a telephone company shall provide at least fifteen days' advance notice to its affected customers of any material change in the rates, terms, and conditions of any retail service required to be tariffed by the public utilities commission or the federal communications commission, any wholesale service as to which there is no other applicable notice requirement, and any change in t...

...ted from a telephone instrument set aside for use by inmates or juvenile offenders by authorities of a secured correctional facility.

...ssion's jurisdiction over the company under sections 4927.01 to 4927.21 of the Revised Code. Subject to that limitation, the commission may do any of the following: (1) Through its commissioners or by inspectors or employees authorized by it, examine the books, records, contracts, documents, and papers of any such company for any purpose incidental to the commission's authority under those sections; (2) By subp...

...authority of this chapter: (A) Every telephone company, including every wireless service provider; (B) Every telecommunications carrier; (C) Every provider of internet protocol-enabled services, including voice over internet protocol.

...any other than a wireless service provider, alleging that any rate, practice, or service of the company is unjust, unreasonable, unjustly discriminatory, or in violation of or noncompliance with any provision of sections 4927.01 to 4927.20 of the Revised Code or a rule or order adopted or issued under those sections. Any dispute between telephone companies, between telephone companies and wireless service prov...

...access services as public utilities or telecommunications carriers. (B) This section shall not be construed to do any of the following: (1) Restrict any authority delegated to the commission or to any state agency to administer a state or federal grant program under state or federal statute, rule, or order; (2) Restrict the application to broadband internet access service, or providers thereof, of any law that ...

...ther the utility applies to receive transition revenues under this chapter. (18) "Market power" means the ability to impose on customers a sustained price for a product or service above the price that would prevail in a competitive market. (19) "Mercantile customer" means a commercial or industrial customer if the electricity consumed is for nonresidential use and the customer consumes more than seven hundred t...

...availability to consumers of adequate, reliable, safe, efficient, nondiscriminatory, and reasonably priced retail electric service; (B) Ensure the availability of unbundled and comparable retail electric service that provides consumers with the supplier, price, terms, conditions, and quality options they elect to meet their respective needs; (C) Ensure diversity of electricity supplies and suppliers, by giving co...

...uppliers. In accordance with a filing under division (F) of section 4933.81 of the Revised Code, retail electric generation, aggregation, power marketing, or power brokerage services supplied to consumers within the certified territory of an electric cooperative that has made the filing are competitive retail electric services that the consumers may obtain subject to this chapter from any supplier or suppliers. Begi...