§  36.152   Categories of Cable and Wire Facilities (C&WF).

   (a) C&WF are basically divided between exchange and interexchange.
   Exchange C&WF consists of the following categories:

   (1) Exchange Line C&WF Excluding Wideband --Category 1--This category
   includes C&W facilities between local central offices and subscriber
   premises used for message telephone, private line, local channels, and
   for circuits between control terminals and radio stations providing
   very high frequency maritime service or urban or highway mobile
   service.

   (2) Wideband and Exchange Trunk C&WF--Category 2--This category
   includes all wideband, including Exchange Line Wideband and C&WF
   between local central offices and Wideband facilities. It also includes
   C&WF between central offices or other switching points used by any
   common carrier for interlocal trunks wholly within an exchange or
   metropolitan service area, interlocal trunks with one or both terminals
   outside a metropolitan service area carrying some exchange traffic,
   toll connecting trunks, tandem trunks principally carrying exchange
   traffic, the exchange trunk portion of WATS access lines, the exchange
   trunk portion of private line local channels, and the exchange trunk
   portion of circuits between control terminals and radio stations
   providing very high frequency maritime service or urban or highway
   mobile service.

   (3) The procedures for apportioning the cost of exchange cable and wire
   facilities among the operations are set forth in § §  36.154 and
   36.155.

   (b) Interexchange C&WF--Category 3--This category includes the C&WF
   used for message toll and toll private line services. It includes cable
   and wire facilities carrying intertoll circuits, tributary circuits,
   the interexchange channel portion of special service circuits, circuits
   between control terminals and radio stations used for overseas or
   coastal harbor service, interlocal trunks between offices in the
   different exchange or metropolitan service areas carrying only message
   toll traffic and certain tandem trunks which carry principally message
   toll traffic.

   (1) The procedures for apportioning the cost of interexchange cable and
   wire facilities among the operations are set forth in §  36.156.

   (c) Host/Remote Message C&WF--Category 4--This category includes the
   cost of message host/remote location C&WF for which a message circuit
   switching function is performed at the host central office. It applies
   to C&WF between host offices and all remote locations. The procedures
   for apportioning the cost of these facilities among the operations are
   set forth in §  36.157.

   (d) Effective July 1, 2001, through June 30, 2014, study areas subject
   to price cap regulation, pursuant to §  61.41, shall assign the average
   balance of Account 2410 to the categories/subcategories, as specified
   in § §  36.152(a) through (c), based on the relative percentage
   assignment of the average balance of Account 2410 to these
   categories/subcategories during the twelve month period ending December
   31, 2000.

   [ 52 FR 17229 , May 6, 1987, as amended at  66 FR 33206 , June 21, 2001;  71 FR 65746 , Nov. 9, 2006;  75 FR 30301 , June 1, 2010;  76 FR 30841 , May 27,
   2011]

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