2010 Pennsylvania Code
Title 66 - PUBLIC UTILITIES
Chapter 13 - Rates and Rate Making
1324 - Residential telephone service rates based on duration or distance of call.

     § 1324.  Residential telephone service rates based on duration
                or distance of call.
        (a)  Required charging method.--In addition to any other
     method of charging offered on an optional basis, a
     telecommunications utility providing local exchange telephone
     service to residential customers within a certified exchange
     area must provide service which charges, for calls originating
     and terminating within the same local calling area, on the basis
     of a flat monthly fee for all such calls made.
        (b)  Options.--If the commission determines that a
     telecommunications utility may offer to residential customers an
     optional method of charging for calls originating and
     terminating within the same local calling area based, in whole
     or in part, on the duration or distance of the call, it shall
     also offer a rate which charges for such calls only on the basis
     of the number of calls made.
        (c)  Rate relationship.--In addition to any other
     requirements imposed by this title, the rates for services
     required or permitted pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) shall
     be maintained at just and reasonable levels in comparison to one
     another.
        (d)  Nonresidential rates pursuant to another section.--
     Nothing in this section shall preclude the commission from
     establishing rates for other classes of telephone service based
     upon another section of this title.
     (July 10, 1986, P.L.1238, No.114, eff. imd.)

        1986 Amendment.  Act 114 added section 1324.