NAC704.7575. Charges for subscribers’ access.

     1. Subscriber’s charges for access may be assessed for each line between the subscriber’s premises and the switching center where his or her loops are terminated and toll calls are switched through to called lines, if the line is or may be used for local calls.

     2. Charges for access must be set at an amount so that the cost of service guides the setting of rates without unreasonably:

     (a) Promoting the uneconomic bypassing of the assistance of an intraexchange carrier in either the originating or terminating exchange; or

     (b) Discouraging universal service.

     3. Subscriber’s charges for access, tolls for services within a local area of transport and access and interexchange carrier’s charges for access may be adjusted to increase or decrease the money available to preserve universal service and prevent the uneconomic bypassing of the assistance of an intraexchange carrier in the exchange of either origin or termination.

     4. Each intraexchange carrier must charge a premium for access to providers of intrastate service between local areas of transport and access for those facilities which do not provide equal access to interexchange carriers. The premium must be identical in amount and structure to that required by the Federal Communications Commission.

     (Added to NAC by Pub. Service Comm’n, 7-16-85, eff. 8-1-85; A 10-17-86, eff. 4-1-87)