OAR 860-032-0200: Essential Services

(1) For purposes of ORS 759.195, a local exchange service is essential if customers require it to efficiently establish, sustain, or discontinue a telecommunications service by means of the public network. The public network is comprised of a system of interconnected telecommunications channels held out by a local exchange carrier for use by the general public. (2) A local exchange service is essential if the service is essential for one or more local customer classes. (3) If essential and potentially price-listed services are packaged together, the entire package is eligible to be considered for price listing if each essential service in the package is readily available to customers on a separate basis and the package price is equal to or greater than the tariffed rate(s) for the essential service(s) plus the long-run incremental cost(s) of the price-listed service(s). (4) Any new service is presumed to be potentially price listed until the Commission determines otherwise. A service is not new if it merely repackages or renames an existing service. (5) A service can only be discontinued pursuant to OAR 860-032-0020, whether the service is essential or potentially price listed. (6) The following are essential services: (a) Residential Flat; (b) Residential Measured; (c) Residential Multiparty; (d) Suburban; (e) Farmer Line; (f) Business Simple; (g) Business Complex; (h) Public Access Line; (i) Tone Dialing (Touch Tone); (j) Hunting; (k) Direct Inward Dialing; (l) Conditioning; (m) Intercept Announcement and Referral; (n) Directory Listing (White and Yellow Pages); (o) Privacy Listing; (p) Directory Assistance; (q) Emergency (9-1-1); (r) Switched Access Service; and (s) Toll Restriction.