                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DUTIES OF A COMPETITIVE TELEPHONE COMPANY (§ 56-54.6)

A. A competitive telephone company that is an incumbent telephone carrier shall
have the duty in its incumbent territory to extend or expand its facilities to
furnish retail voice service and facilities when the person, firm, or
corporation does not have service available from one or more alternative
providers of wireline or terrestrial wireless communications services at
prevailing market rates.

B. A competitive telephone company shall continue to have the powers and duties
provided in the first sentence of subdivision A 2 of &#xA7; 56-234.

C. For the purposes of subsections A and B, the Commission shall have the
authority, upon request of an individual, corporation, or other entity, or a
competitive telephone company, to determine whether the wireline or terrestrial
wireless communications service available to the party requesting service is a
reasonably adequate alternative to local exchange telephone service.

D. The use by a competitive telephone company of wireline and terrestrial
wireless technologies shall not be construed to grant any additional
jurisdiction or authority to the Commission over such technologies.

E. For purposes of subsection A, &#8220;prevailing market rates&#8221; means
rates similar to those generally available to consumers in competitive areas for
the same services.

F. A competitive telephone company shall have the obligation to provide access
to emergency 911 service to its end-user retail customers.

HISTORY: 2014, cc. 340, 376.