Intrastate interexchange carrier payment and collection includes expenses associated with the payment and collection of interexchange carrier billings, including commissions paid to payment and collection agents.
Based on relative total intrastate revenues billed to the interexchange carriers, intrastate interexchange carrier payment and collection expenses are assigned to the subcategories of intrastate special access and private line, intrastate switched access and message toll including WATS, and intrastate billing and collection. These subcategories are assigned as follows:
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General Authority: SDCL 49-1-11, 49-31-5, 49-31-18.
Law Implemented: SDCL 49-31-18.
Category 1, local business office expense, 47 C.F.R. § 36.377(a) (1991).