Telecommunications Utility Regulation
The current regulatory environment requires the IURC Communications Division to analyze numerous state and federal telecommunications issues and give technical advice to the Commission and legislature about topics including, but not limited to, the following:
- Interconnection of incumbent local exchange companies to new competitors
- Certificates of territorial authority for competitive providers of local exchange and long-distance services
- Wholesale service tariffs
- Universal service issues
- Statutory reporting requirements
- Area code relief
Since the enactment of HEA 1279, in March 2006, the Communications Division also monitors the effects of competition and technological change on universal service and on pricing of all telecommunications services under the jurisdiction of the Commission offered in Indiana.
Strawman Draft of 170 IAC 7:
The Communications Division has drafted a strawman of the rule to replace the current telecommunications rules located at 170 IAC 7.
For Consumers
- File a complaint
- Compare your bill
- Terms and acronyms - telephone
- Terms and acronyms - broadband
- Wireless provider contact information
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Tariffs
- Withdrawn Utilities
Lists of Communications Service Providers
- Incumbent local exchange carriers
- Competitive local exchange carriers/facilities-based
- Competitive local exchange carriers/resellers
- Toll/long distance carriers
- Wireless
- Alternative operator service
- Facilities-based interexchange
For Communications Service Providers
- HEA 1279 regulatory changes (Effective July 1, 2009)
- Applications and forms
- Annual report filing process
- Public utility fee report
- Interconnection agreements
- List of 30-Day filings
- Pending non-docket cases
- Pending CSP CTA applications
- Public interest payphones
- Survey
- IURC tariff no. T-7
- Communications regulatory flexibility reports
- Indiana State Universal Service Fund
Indiana Lifeline Assistance Program
- For Carriers
- Cause No. 43082 - Order reopening the proceeding (Oct. 21, 2009)
- Cause No. 43082 - Final order (Nov. 7, 2007)
- Rulemaking
- For Consumers
Related Links
- Call Before You Dig - 811
- Call for Action Network
- Cellular Telephone Industry Association (CTIA)
- Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
- File a Complaint with FCC
- Indiana Telecommunications Association (ITA)
- Indiana Exchange Carrier Association (INECA)
- Long Distance Telephone & Telecommunications Clearinghouse/ABTolls
- National Exchange Carrier Association (NECA)
- National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative Association (NRTC)
- National Telecommunications Cooperative (NTCA)
- National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)
- North American Numbering Plan Administration (NANPA)
- Number Portability News and Links
- Organization for the Promotion and Advancement of Small Telecommunications Companies (OPASTCO)
- United States Telecom Association (USTA)
- Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC)
Top FAQs I Want To...
- File a complaint against a utility.
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- File an annual report for a water/sewer utility.
- File an annual report for a telecommunications utility.
- Make payment arrangements on my utility bill.
- Find information about telecommunication tariffs.
- Compare my utility bill.
- Find information about the Indiana State Universal Service Fund.
- Find information about interconnection agreements.
