Tex. Utilities Code § 55.007
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§ 55.007. MINIMUM SERVICES.
Official statutory text
(a) The commission shall require a holder of a certificate of convenience and necessity or a certificate of operating authority to provide at the applicable tariff rate, if any, to each customer, regardless of race, national origin, income, or residence in an urban or rural area:
(1) single-party service;
(2) tone-dialing service;
(3) basic custom calling features;
(4) equal access for an interLATA interexchange carrier on a bona fide request; and
(5) digital switching capability in an exchange on customer request, provided by a digital switch in the exchange or by connection to a digital switch in another exchange.
(b) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), an electing incumbent local exchange company serving more than 175,000 but fewer than 1,500,000 access lines on January 1, 1995, shall install a digital switch in each central office that serves an exchange of fewer than 20,000 access lines.
(c) The commission may temporarily waive a requirement imposed by Subsection (a) or (b) on a showing of good cause.
(d) The commission may not consider the cost of implementing this section in determining whether an electing company is entitled to:
(1) a rate increase under Chapter 58 or 59; or
(2) increased universal service funds under Subchapter B, Chapter 56.
(e) Expired.
(1) single-party service;
(2) tone-dialing service;
(3) basic custom calling features;
(4) equal access for an interLATA interexchange carrier on a bona fide request; and
(5) digital switching capability in an exchange on customer request, provided by a digital switch in the exchange or by connection to a digital switch in another exchange.
(b) Notwithstanding Subsection (a), an electing incumbent local exchange company serving more than 175,000 but fewer than 1,500,000 access lines on January 1, 1995, shall install a digital switch in each central office that serves an exchange of fewer than 20,000 access lines.
(c) The commission may temporarily waive a requirement imposed by Subsection (a) or (b) on a showing of good cause.
(d) The commission may not consider the cost of implementing this section in determining whether an electing company is entitled to:
(1) a rate increase under Chapter 58 or 59; or
(2) increased universal service funds under Subchapter B, Chapter 56.
(e) Expired.
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