(1) A telecommunications service provider may
assert that a service it offers is not regulated by informing the commission of
its intent to offer the service as not regulated no later than 90 days prior to
offering the service as not regulated. The following information shall be
provided to the commission:
(a) the name and address of the provider;
(b) a complete description of the service
asserted to be not regulated, including an engineering description;
(c) a description of the market and
geographic area in which the service is or will be offered;
(d) the type, and an estimate of the
number, of existing and potential customers offered the service; and,
(e) an affidavit that all persons and
organizations on the telecommunications mailing list have been notified as
required in ARM 38.5.2706.
(f) within 10 days of filing the
information requested in (a) through (e) , an affidavit that all customers of
the service, if any, have been appropriately informed of the provider's intent
to offer the service as not regulated;
(g) The commission may require additional
information from the provider.
(2) Any interested party may assert that a
telecommunications service should be offered as not regulated
telecommunications. The burden of proof is on the party attempting to establish
that the service is not regulated. Such a request will be considered a
complaint subject to the requirements of ARM 38.2.2101 through 38.2.2107.
(3) The commission may initiate an inquiry
regarding whether a regulated telecommunications service should be offered as
not regulated.