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Title 26 - Public UtilitiesTelecommunications Regulations
Rules Governing the Deployment of Interim Number Portability Measures in the State of Delaware (Docket 46)
Section 4006-6.0 - Distribution of Access Charges Paid by Interexchange Carriers

26 Del. Admin. Code § 4006-6.0

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Current through Register Vol. 28, No. 7, January 1, 2025
Section 4006-6.0 - Distribution of Access Charges Paid by Interexchange Carriers
6.1 During the interim period, the local exchange carrier providing RCF interim number portability shall collect the interexchange carrier ("IXC") access revenue in the process of forwarding an interexchange carrier's telecommunications call to an end-user of a second telecommunications carrier.
6.2 The local exchange carrier collecting the access revenue under Rule 6.1 shall distribute the collected relevant revenue to compensate the second carrier for revenue lost due to the use of RCF interim number portability. The relevant access revenue shall be distributed as follows:

. the approximation of "terminating IXC minutes of use ('MOUs') over ported numbers," to which the revenue distribution would apply, shall be determined by applying the ratio of terminating IXC access MOUs/ total (local and toll) terminating MOUs to the actual measured total terminating interim number portability MOUs

. the rate adjustment amount, over which the "terminating IXC minutes of use ('MOUs') over ported numbers" would apply, shall be calculated as follows:

rate adjustment = total IXC exchange access rate charged by the collecting carrier pursuant to its tariffs minus the meet point billing for the collecting carrier (if applicable) minus local reciprocal compensation rate of the second carrier (if applicable)

COMMENTS: This section sets up method for dividing the interexchange access charges when the interexchange carrier's communication is ported by RCF to another carrier's network. The provisions of the section set up a formula to approximate the number of terminating access minutes of use that were routed by RCF interim number portability to end-users on the second carrier's network. The section also defines an adjusted access rate to reflect monies that might be due to the porting carrier from a meet point billing arrangement and reciprocal compensation from local traffic. The first carrier will subtract those per minute arrangements from its tariffed access rate, multiply by the number calculated under the "terminating IXC minutes of use ('MOU') over ported numbers" formula, and distribute that amount to the second carrier.

26 Del. Admin. Code § 4006-6.0