Tex. Utilities Code § 58.301
This is the official text of Tex. Utilities Code § 58.301, part of Texas’s Utilities Code — regulates utility companies.
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§ 58.301. SWITCHED ACCESS RATE REDUCTION.
Official statutory text
An electing company with greater than five million access lines in this state shall reduce its switched access rates on a combined originating and terminating basis as follows:
(1) the electing company shall reduce switched access rates on a combined originating and terminating basis in effect on September 1, 1999, by one cent a minute; and
(2) the electing company shall reduce switched access rates on a combined originating and terminating basis by an additional two cents a minute on the earlier of:
(A) July 1, 2000; or
(B) the date the electing company, or its affiliate formed in compliance with 47 U.S.C. Section 272, as amended, actually begins providing interLATA services in this state in accordance with the authorization required by 47 U.S.C. Section 271, as amended.
(1) the electing company shall reduce switched access rates on a combined originating and terminating basis in effect on September 1, 1999, by one cent a minute; and
(2) the electing company shall reduce switched access rates on a combined originating and terminating basis by an additional two cents a minute on the earlier of:
(A) July 1, 2000; or
(B) the date the electing company, or its affiliate formed in compliance with 47 U.S.C. Section 272, as amended, actually begins providing interLATA services in this state in accordance with the authorization required by 47 U.S.C. Section 271, as amended.
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