---
kind: "section"
citation: "47 C.F.R. § 69.727"
title: "47"
number: "69.727"
heading: "Regulatory relief."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/47/69.727"
---

# §69.727. Regulatory relief.

- (a) **Phase I relief.** Upon satisfaction of the Phase I triggers specified in [§ 69.709(b)](/cfr/47/69.709.md?p=b), [§ 69.711(b)](/cfr/47/69.711.md?p=b), or [§ 69.713(b)](/cfr/47/69.713.md?p=b) for an MSA or the non-MSA parts of a study area, a price cap LEC will be granted the following regulatory relief in that area for the services specified in [§ 69.709(a)](/cfr/47/69.709.md?p=a), [§ 69.711(a)](/cfr/47/69.711.md?p=a), or [§ 69.713(a)](/cfr/47/69.713.md?p=a), respectively:
  - (1) Volume and term discounts;
  - (2) Contract tariff authority, provided that
    - (i) Contract tariff services are made generally available to all similarly situated customers; and
    - (ii) The price cap LEC excludes all contract tariff offerings from price cap regulation pursuant to [§ 61.42(f)(1)](/cfr/47/61.42.md?p=f-1) of this chapter.
    - (iii) Before the price cap LEC provides a contract tariffed service, under [§ 69.727(a)](#a), to one of its long-distance affiliates, as described in section 272 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, or [§ 64.1903](/cfr/47/64.1903.md) of this chapter, the price cap LEC certifies to the Commission that it provides service pursuant to that contract tariff to an unaffiliated customer.
- (b) **Phase II relief.** Upon satisfaction of the Phase II triggers specified in [§ 69.709(c)](/cfr/47/69.709.md?p=c) or [§ 69.711(c)](/cfr/47/69.711.md?p=c) for an MSA or the non-MSA parts of a study area, a price cap LEC will be granted the following regulatory relief in that area for the services specified in §§ [69.709(a)](/cfr/47/69.709.md?p=a) or [69.711(a)](/cfr/47/69.711.md?p=a), respectively:
  - (1) Elimination of the rate structure requirements in subpart B of this part;
  - (2) Elimination of price cap regulation; and
  - (3) Filing of tariff revisions on one day's notice, notwithstanding the notice requirements for tariff filings specified in [§ 61.58](/cfr/47/61.58.md) of this chapter.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 64 FR 51267, Sept. 22, 1999, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 47 U.S.C. 154, 201, 202, 203, 205, 218, 220, 254, 403.

### Source

Source: 48 FR 10358, Mar. 11, 1983, unless otherwise noted.