Law / United States / 
Alaska
Telecommunications relay service for subscribers who are deaf, hard of hearing or speech disabled
Alaska Stat. Sec. 42.05.296; 3 AAC 51.010-51.199
In force.
An accessibility requirements rule binding public and private bodies.
- Instrument type
- a regulation made under an act
- Obligation class
- Governance, Reporting
What it requires
- This binds the Regulatory Commission of Alaska, which must adopt the regulations (AS 42.05.296(a)), and through those regulations every provider of local intrastate telecommunication services, but not intrastate interexchange carriers (3 AAC 51.010(a)).
- If you provide local intrastate telecommunication services in Alaska, list the relay service surcharge as a separate line item on bills for service, titled "Universal Access Surcharge" (3 AAC 51.040(e)).
- Collect the surcharge for each voice line from subscribers of telecommunications service (3 AAC 51.040(f)).
- Pay the surcharge revenues you collect to the relay service provider by the 10th calendar day of each month, or the next working day if the 10th falls on a Saturday, Sunday, or bank holiday, with a report of the number of wireless and wireline voice lines to which a surcharge was assessed (3 AAC 51.040(k)(1)).
- If you are the relay service provider certificated by the commission, file a tariff that incorporates the terms and conditions specified in your application, and file a monthly report with the commission (3 AAC 51.030(a)).
- In that monthly report, show the quality of service offered to customers and its conformance with the federal speed-of-answer and call-blocking standards in 47 C.F.R. 64.604(b)(2) (3 AAC 51.030(a)(3)).
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What this law does
The Regulatory Commission of Alaska is an independent agency of the state within the Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development. The commission must adopt regulations to require telecommunications utilities to provide service to subscribers who are deaf, hard of hearing, and speech disabled that permits the subscriber to communicate by one or more telecommunications devices with persons of normal hearing.
The regulations must provide for cost recovery through surcharges added to the rate for each telecommunications service. The commission's regulations in chapter 51 of title 3 of the Alaska Administrative Code apply to all providers of any local intrastate telecommunication services and do not apply to intrastate interexchange carriers.
Each telecommunications carrier must list the relay service surcharge as a separate line item on bills for service, titled Universal Access Surcharge, and must collect the surcharge for each voice line from subscribers. Each carrier pays the surcharge revenues it collects to the relay service provider by the 10th calendar day of each month, with a report of the voice lines assessed.
The relay service provider, once the commission issues it a certificate of public convenience and necessity, files a tariff and monthly reports with the commission. Its monthly report must show the quality of service offered to customers, in conformance with the federal speed-of-answer and call-blocking standards.
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