Utah Code Title 54. Public Utilities § 54-8b-3.3. Services that must be offered on a nondiscriminatory basis--Public telecommunications to be cost-based--Packaged services--Quality of service standards

(1)(a) As used in this section, “cost-based” means that the prices for the telecommunications services shall be established after taking into consideration the total service long-run incremental cost of providing the service.

(b) The term “cost-based” does not prevent the establishment of prices:

(a) a telecommunications corporation with more than 30,000 access lines in the state that provides a public telecommunications service may not:

(b) public telecommunications services provided by a telecommunications corporation with more than 30,000 access lines in the state shall be nondiscriminatory, cost-based, and subject to resale as determined by the commission; and

(c) public telecommunications services may be packaged with other services, so long as they are also offered on a separate, unbundled basis.

(3)(a) In order to promote continued investment in the public telecommunications network and to improve the quality of service for end users, the commission may adopt rules governing service quality standards to end users for all public telecommunications services.

(b) The commission shall have the authority to enforce the rules adopted under this Subsection (3) by granting billing credits to the affected end user where the noncompliance is for reasons within the telecommunications corporation's control.

(c) Rules adopted under this Subsection (3) on or after January 1, 2005, shall impose no greater requirements or obligations on any telecommunications corporation:

(d) An incumbent telephone corporation with less than 30,000 access lines in the state is exempt from this Subsection (3).