GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2007
SESSION LAW 2007-157
SENATE BILL 680
AN ACT TO streamline regulation of telecommunications promotions.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 62-133.5 reads as rewritten:
"§ 62-133.5. Alternative regulation, tariffing, and deregulation of telecommunications utilities.
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(f) Notwithstanding
the provisions of G.S. 62-140, or any Commission rule or regulation,regulations:
(i) the Commission shall permit a local exchange company or a competing
local provider to offer competitive services with flexible pricing arrangements
to business customers pursuant to contract and shall permit other flexible
pricing options. Localoptions; and (ii) local exchange companies
and competing local providers may provide a promotional offering for any
tariffed service or tariffed offering by giving one day's notice to the
Commission, but no Commission approval of the notice is required. Promotional
offerings of any nontariffed service may be implemented without notice to the
Commission or Commission approval. Carriers offering promotions of regulated
services that are available for resale must provide a means for interested
parties to receive notice of each promotional offering of regulated service,
including the duration of the offering, at least one business day prior to the
effective date of the promotional offering.shall be required to give the
Commission one business day's notice but need not seek Commission approval for
any promotion or bundled service offering for residence or business customers
involving both regulated and nonregulated services that feature price discounts
that apply exclusively to services not regulated by the Commission. Furthermore,
local exchange companies and competing local providers may offer special
promotions and bundles of new or existing service or products without the
obligation to identify or convert existing customers who subscribe to the same
or similar services or products. The Commission's complaint authority under
G.S. 62-73 and subsection (e) of this section is applicable to any
promotion or bundled service offering filed or offered under this subsection.
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SECTION 2. This act is effective when it becomes law.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified this the 25th day of June, 2007.
s/ Marc Basnight
President Pro Tempore of the Senate
s/ Joe Hackney
Speaker of the House of Representatives
s/ Michael F. Easley
Governor
Approved 2:27 p.m. this 29th day of June, 2007