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HCS/HB 1750 - Incumbent local exchange telecommunications companies (ILECs) must reduce their intrastate exchange access rates in annual 5% increments over a period of ten years, so that as of December 31, 2019, the difference between each ILEC's intrastate and interstate access rates will be 50% less than the difference was between the rates at the beginning of the ten-year period. The act does not apply to small ILECs that served less than 25,000 access lines as of January 1, 2010 or to rural alternative local exchange telecommunications companies (rural ALECs), as rural ALEC is defined in the act. This act is similar to provisions in SB 698 (2010), SS/SCS/HCS/HB 495 (2009) and SS/SCS/SB 555 (2009). ERIKA JAQUES
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