Part 51 - Interconnection  


Subpart A - General Information
§ 51.1 - Basis and purpose.
§ 51.3 - Applicability to negotiated agreements.
§ 51.5 - Terms and definitions.
Subpart B - Telecommunications Carriers
§ 51.100 - General duty.
Subpart C - Obligations of All Local Exchange Carriers
§ 51.201 - Resale.
§ 51.203 - Number portability.
§ 51.205 - Dialing parity: General.
§ 51.207 - Local dialing parity.
§ 51.209 - Toll dialing parity.
§ 51.211 - Toll dialing parity implementation schedule.
§ 51.213 - Toll dialing parity implementation plans.
§ 51.215 - Dialing parity: Cost recovery.
§ 51.217 - Nondiscriminatory access: Telephone numbers, operator services, directory assistance services, and directory listings.
§ 51.219 - Access to rights of way.
§ 51.221 - Reciprocal compensation.
§ 51.223 - Application of additional requirements.
§ 51.230 - Presumption of acceptability for deployment of an advanced services loop technology.
§ 51.231 - Provision of information on advanced services deployment.
§ 51.232 - Binder group management.
§ 51.233 - Significant degradation of services caused by deployment of advanced services.
Subpart D - Additional Obligations of Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers
§ 51.301 - Duty to negotiate.
§ 51.303 - Preexisting agreements.
§ 51.305 - Interconnection.
§ 51.307 - Duty to provide access on an unbundled basis to network elements.
§ 51.309 - Use of unbundled network elements.
§ 51.311 - Nondiscriminatory access to unbundled network elements.
§ 51.313 - Just, reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms and conditions for the provision of unbundled network elements.
§ 51.315 - Combination of unbundled network elements.
§ 51.316 - Conversion of unbundled network elements and services.
§ 51.317 - Standards for requiring the unbundling of network elements.
§ 51.318 - Eligibility criteria for access to certain unbundled network elements.
§ 51.319 - Specific unbundling requirements.
§ 51.320 - Assumption of responsibility by the Commission.
§ 51.321 - Methods of obtaining interconnection and access to unbundled elements under section 251 of the Act.
§ 51.323 - Standards for physical collocation and virtual collocation.
§ 51.325 - Notice of network changes: Public notice requirement.
§ 51.327 - Notice of network changes: Content of notice.
§ 51.329 - Notice of network changes: Methods for providing notice.
§ 51.331 - Notice of network changes: Timing of notice.
§ 51.332 - Notice of network changes: Copper retirement.
§ 51.333 - Notice of network changes: Short term notice, objections thereto and objections to copper retirement notices.
§ 51.335 - Notice of network changes: Confidential or proprietary information.
Subpart E - Exemptions, Suspensions, and Modifications of Requirements of Section 251 of the Act
§ 51.401 - State authority.
§ 51.403 - Carriers eligible for suspension or modification under section 251(f)(2) of the Act.
§ 51.405 - Burden of proof.
Subpart F - Pricing of Elements
§ 51.501 - Scope.
§ 51.503 - General pricing standard.
§ 51.505 - Forward-looking economic cost.
§ 51.507 - General rate structure standard.
§ 51.509 - Rate structure standards for specific elements.
§ 51.511 - Forward-looking economic cost per unit.
§ 51.513 - Proxies for forward-looking economic cost.
§ 51.515 - Application of access charges.
Subpart G - Resale
§ 51.601 - Scope of resale rules.
§ 51.603 - Resale obligation of all local exchange carriers.
§ 51.605 - Additional obligations of incumbent local exchange carriers.
§ 51.607 - Wholesale pricing standard.
§ 51.609 - Determination of avoided retail costs.
§ 51.611 - Interim wholesale rates.
§ 51.613 - Restrictions on resale.
§ 51.615 - Withdrawal of services.
§ 51.617 - Assessment of end user common line charge on resellers.
Subpart H - Reciprocal Compensation for Transport and Termination of Telecommunications Traffic
§ 51.700 - Purpose of this subpart.
§ 51.701 - Scope of transport and termination pricing rules.
§ 51.703 - Non-Access reciprocal compensation obligation of LECs.
§ 51.705 - LECs' rates for transport and termination.
§ 51.707 - [Reserved]
§ 51.709 - Rate structure for transport and termination.
§ 51.711 - Symmetrical reciprocal compensation.
§ 51.713 - Bill-and-keep arrangements.
§ 51.715 - Interim transport and termination pricing.
§ 51.717 - [Reserved]
Subpart I - Procedures for Implementation of Section 252 of the Act
§ 51.801 - Commission action upon a state commission's failure to act to carry out its responsibility under section 252 of the Act.
§ 51.803 - Procedures for Commission notification of a state commission's failure to act.
§ 51.805 - The Commission's authority over proceedings and matters.
§ 51.807 - Arbitration and mediation of agreements by the Commission pursuant to section 252(e)(5) of the Act.
§ 51.809 - Availability of agreements to other telecommunications carriers under section 252(i) of the Act.
Subpart J - Transitional Access Service Pricing
§ 51.901 - Purpose and scope of transitional access service pricing rules.
§ 51.903 - Definitions.
§ 51.905 - Implementation.
§ 51.907 - Transition of price cap carrier access charges.
§ 51.909 - Transition of rate-of-return carrier access charges.
§ 51.911 - Access reciprocal compensation rates for competitive LECs.
§ 51.913 - Transition for VoIP-PSTN traffic.
§ 51.914 - Additional provisions applicable to Access Stimulation traffic.
§ 51.915 - Recovery mechanism for price cap carriers.
§ 51.917 - Revenue recovery for Rate-of-Return Carriers.
§ 51.919 - Reporting and monitoring.