Carriers: subscriber access charges for multiline business and centrex lines

This table shows average rates (weighted by access lines) for all local exchange carriers (LECs) that file access tariffs subject to price-cap regulation and all LECs in the National Exchange Carrier Association (NECA) pool. Rates are composites of all regions and subsidiaries of each local exchange carrier. For example, nonprimary residential SLCs can be less than primary residential SLCs due to weighting by access lines. Note that at the disaggregated level, non-primary rates are always greater than or equal to primary rates. The primary line rate is weighted by the number of primary residential lines and the non-primary residential rate is similarly weighted by the number of non-primary access lines. Because the weight on primary lines versus non-primary lines is not constant, the primary rate is not necessarily lower than the non-primary rate at the holding company level. No information is available for those carriers that are not in the NECA pool, but are subject to rate-ofreturn regulation.