Sec.  69.153   Presubscribed interexchange carrier charge (PICC).

   (a) A charge expressed in dollars and cents per line may be assessed upon
   the Multi-line business subscriber's presubscribed interexchange carrier to
   recover revenues totaling Average Price Cap CMT Revenues per Line month
   times the number of base period lines less revenues recovered through the
   End User Common Line charge established under  Sec. 69.152 and Interstate Access
   Universal Service Support Per Line (as defined in  Sec. 54.807 of this chapter)
   multiplied by base period lines for the applicable customer class and zones
   receiving such support, up to a maximum of $4.31 per line per month. In the
   event the ceilings on the PICC prevent the PICC from recovering all the
   residual common line/marketing and residual interconnection charge revenues,
   the PICC shall recover all residual common line/marketing revenues before it
   recovers residual interconnection charge revenues.

   (b) If an end-user customer does not have a presubscribed interexchange
   carrier, the local exchange carrier may collect the PICC directly from the
   end user.

   (c) [Reserved]

   (d)  Local  exchange  carriers shall assess no more than five PICCs as
   calculated under paragraph (a) of this section for Primary Rate Interface
   ISDN service.

   (e) The maximum monthly PICC for Centrex lines shall be one-ninth of the
   maximum charge determined under paragraph (a) of this section, except that
   if a Centrex customer has fewer than nine lines, the maximum monthly PICC
   for those lines shall be the maximum charge determined under paragraph (a)
   of this section divided by the customer's number of Centrex lines.

   (f) The PICC shall not be applicable to any payphone lines.

   (g)–(h) [Reserved]

   [ 65 FR 38703 , June 21, 2000;  65 FR 57744 , Sept. 26, 2000, as amended at  68 FR 43329 , July 22, 2003]