Current through October 28, 2024
Section PSC 173.03 - Submission of telecommunications emergency services contracts(1) A telecommunications provider that enters into a contract with a county for the provision of wireline 911 emergency telecommunications service shall within 20 days submit the contract for commission review.(2) In addition to the contract, the utility shall submit all of the following information: (a) A copy of the county ordinance adopting the plan for a wireline 911 emergency telecommunications system.(b) A list identifying all participating local exchange carriers and a statement that each has tariffs or concurring tariffs on file with the commission providing for individual 911 contracts.(c) A list identifying the localities and the number of all service users residing outside the contracting county, specifying the municipality in which they reside.(d) A list identifying those municipalities outside the contracting county with residents who will be billed for the service.(e) A statement that all telecommunications service users in the county have access to a wireline 911 system. If such a statement cannot be made with regard to a segment of the county's service users, the telecommunications utility shall provide information indicating that the local exchange carrier serving those service users is not capable of providing the wireline 911 system on a reasonable economic basis on the effective date of the contract.(f) A list of exchanges in the county with customers served by a wireline 911 system outside the county, which identifies the provider of the wireline 911 service.(g) A description of access to the wireline 911 system by telecommunications devices for the communicatively impaired.(h) Cost support for and complete itemization of the installation and monthly charges for automatic number identification, automatic location identification and all trunking service components for both the primary telecommunications utility under the contract and the participating local exchange carriers. Cost support may be in the form of tariff reference if the rates and charges for wireline 911 service are those in the utility's tariffs.(i) A statement of the total billable exchange access lines for purposes of the contract and the actual exchange access line count. This statement shall provide detail as to how the billable exchange access line count was determined, including any equivalency factor used for the line equivalents and the number of lines to which the factor applies.(3) The commission shall withhold from public inspection any wireline 911 emergency telecommunications service contract, or any other information received under this subchapter, that would aid a competitor of one or more of the participating telecommunications providers.Wis. Admin. Code Public Service Commission PSC 173.03
CR 04-026: CR Register November 2004 No. 587, eff. 1-1-05.