§ 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, 2017, study areas subject to
   price cap regulation, pursuant to § 61.41 of this chapter, shall assign the
   average  balance  of  Account 2410 to the categories/subcategories, as
   specified in paragraph (a) through (c) of this section 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;
    79 FR 36237 , June 26, 2014]

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