ELIGIBLE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CARRIER AND VOIP PROVIDER

 

Zito Mifflin County, LLC

ELIGIBLE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CARRIER AND VOIP PROVIDER

Regulations and Schedule of Charges

For Business and Residential Customers

This Tariff contains the descriptions, regulations, and rates applicable to the provision of Voice Service by Zito Mifflin County, LLC (“the Company”) in its Designated Service Area within the state of Pennsylvania. This Tariff has been filed with the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, and a copy may be inspected at the Carrier’s principal place of business during normal business hours.

The Company will mirror the exchange area boundaries as stated in the tariff of Verizon Pennsylvania, Inc. Telephone – PA P.U.C. No. 180A.

The Company’s Tariff is in concurrence with all applicable State and Federal Laws (including, but not limited to, 52 Pa. Code, 66 Pa. C.S. and the Telecommunications Act of 1934, as amended), and with the Commission’s applicable Rules and Regulations and Orders. Any provisions contained in this Tariff that are inconsistent with the foregoing mentioned will be deemed inoperative and superseded.

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LIST OF MODIFICATIONS

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CHECK SHEET

Original sheets as named below comprise the original Tariff and are currently in effect as of the date on the bottom of the check sheet.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

LIST OF MODIFICATIONS

CHECK SHEET

TARIFF FORMAT

1. APPLICATION OF TARIFF
   • GENERAL
   • TARIFF REVISION SYMBOLS
   • DEFINITIONS
2. GENERAL REGULATIONS
3. SERVICE AREAS
4. SERVICE COMPONENTS AND PRODUCTS
5. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTS
6. LIFELINE SERVICE

TARIFF FORMAT

14. Sheet Numbering – Sheet numbers appear in the upper right corner of the page. Sheets are numbered. However, new sheets are occasionally added to the Tariff. When a new sheet is added between sheets already in effect, a decimal is added. For example, a new sheet added between sheets 14 and 15 would be 14.1.
15. Sheet Revision Numbers – Revision numbers also appear in the upper right corner of each page. These numbers are used to determine the most current sheet version on file with the Commission. For example, the 4th revised Sheet 14 cancels the 3rd revised Sheet 14. Because of various suspension periods and deferrals, the most current sheet number on file with the Commission is not always the Tariff page in effect.
16. Paragraph Numbering Sequence – There are various levels of alphanumeric coding. Each level of coding is subservient to its next higher level.
17. Check Sheets – When a tariff filing is made with the Commission, an undated check sheet accompanies the tariff filing. The check sheet lists the sheets contained in the tariff with a cross reference to the current revision number.

1. APPLICATION OF TARIFF

1.1. GENERAL

This Tariff applies to the furnishing of Voice Service, defined herein, by Zito Mifflin County, LLC (hereinafter referred to as the “Company”).

Services, features, and functions will be provided where facilities, including but not limited to billing and technical capabilities, are available.

The provision of Voice Service is subject to existing regulations and terms and conditions specified in this Tariff, and may be revised, added to, or supplemented by superseding issues.

In addition to the regulations and charges herein, this Tariff is subject to specific regulations as set forth in the Pennsylvania Code Title 52 Public Utilities, and other regulations as may be prescribed by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission.

This Tariff is to be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Pennsylvania.

Should any provision of this Tariff be held by a court or administrative agency of competent jurisdiction to be illegal, invalid, or unenforceable, the remaining provisions of this Tariff will remain in full force and effect.

1.2. TARIFF REVISION SYMBOLS

Revisions to this Tariff are coded through the use of symbols. These symbols appear in the right hand margin of the page. The following tariff revision symbols are used for the purposes indicated below.

• – To signify change
• – To signify decreased rate

(I) – To signify increased rate

1.3. DEFINITIONS

Access Line – An arrangement that connects the Customer’s location to the Company’s designated point of presence or network switching center.

Account – The Customer who has agreed, verbally or by signature, to honor the terms of service established by the Company.

Authorized User – A person, firm or corporation, or any other entity authorized by the Customer to communicate utilizing the Company’s services.

Business Service – Telephone Service to be used primarily for other than family, household or personal purposes.

Company – Whenever used in this Tariff, “Company” refers to Zito Mifflin County, LLC, unless otherwise specified.

Customer – The person or legal entity that subscribes to service under this Tariff and is responsible for payment of tariffed charges for services furnished to the Customer.

Customer Premises – All space in the same building occupied by a Customer, and all space occupied by the same Customer in different buildings on contiguous property.

Designated Service Area – The Census Blocks within the State of Pennsylvania where the Commission has designated the Company as an Eligible Telecommunications Carrier.

Eligible Telecommunications Carrier – A carrier designated for purposes of receiving support from the High Cost and/or Low Income programs of the federal Universal Service Fund.

FCC – The Federal Communications Commission.

Federal Lifeline Program – A government assistance program intended to increase the availability of telecommunications and broadband services to low-income customers.

Public Utility Commission or Commission – The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission.

Residential Service – Service intended solely for the subscriber’s residence, or home, and not for commercial purposes.

Telecommunications Service(s) – The offering of telecommunications for a fee directly to the public.

Telephone Service – For purposes of the Tariff, the Company’s intrastate Voice Service.

Voice Service – A retail service offering established by this Tariff, consisting of the Company’s intrastate Voice over Internet Protocol-enabled Voice Telephony Service, offered on a common carrier basis.

USAC – The administrator of the Federal Universal Fund, including the Lifeline Program.

2. GENERAL REGULATIONS

2.1. UNDERTAKING OF THE COMPANY

2.1.1. GENERAL

The Company undertakes to provide the services offered in this Tariff on the terms and conditions and at the rates and charges specified herein.

The Company’s services and facilities are provided on a monthly basis unless otherwise indicated, and are available 24 hours per day, seven days per week.

Services, features and functions will be provided where facilities, including but not limited to fiber lines, billing and technical capabilities, are available without unreasonable expense to the Company.

The Company may contract with third parties to provide interconnection, call routing, traffic exchange, member porting and other activities needed to provide the services offered in this Tariff.

2.1.2. TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Customers may be required to enter into written service orders that shall contain or reference a specific description of the service ordered, the rates to be charged, the duration of the services, and the terms and conditions in this Tariff.

2.1.3. SERVICE APPLICATION

1. The Company offers Service to all those who desire to purchase Service from the Company consistent with the provisions of this Tariff.
2. The Company reserves the right to examine the credit record of all Service applicants and require a Service deposit when security is necessary to assure future payment, consistent with the requirements of 52 Pa Code §64.31-64.32.
3. The Company reserves the right to refuse service to any applicant who is found to be indebted to the Company for service previously furnished until satisfactory arrangements have been made for payment.
4. The Company is not obligated to provide service to a household under any name if an outstanding bill exists at the address and the person responsible for that bill still resides there.

2.1.4. PROVISION OF EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES

1. The Company shall use reasonable efforts to make available services to a Customer on or before a particular date.
2. The Company shall use reasonable efforts to maintain facilities and equipment used to provide services that it furnishes to the Customer.
3. Equipment the Company provides or installs at the Customer premises for use in connection with the services shall not be used for any purpose other than that for which it was provided.
4. The Customer shall be responsible for service charges for visits resulting from use of equipment or facilities provided by any party other than the Company.
5. The Customer is responsible for ensuring that Customer-provided equipment and wiring connected to Company equipment and facilities is compatible with Company-provided equipment and facilities.

2.1.5. CUSTOMER EQUIPMENT

A Customer may transmit or receive information or signals via the facilities of the Company by use of Customer-provided equipment.

Customer-provided terminal equipment on the Customer premises, and the electric power consumed by such equipment, shall be provided by and maintained at the expense of the Customer.

The Customer is responsible for ensuring that Customer-provided equipment connected to Company equipment and facilities is compatible with Company equipment and facilities.

Upon reasonable notification to the Customer, and at a reasonable time, the Company may make such tests and inspections as may be necessary to determine compliance.

2.1.6. ABUSE AND FRAUDULENT USE

Service is furnished subject to the condition that there will be no abuse or fraudulent use of the service.

• Using the service to make calls which might reasonably be expected to frighten, abuse, torment, deceive, harass or invade the privacy of another.
• Using the service in such a way that it interferes unreasonably with the use of the service by others.
• Rearranging, tampering with, or making connections not authorized by this Tariff to any service components used to furnish Voice Service.
• Using the service with the intent of gaining access to another Customer’s outbound calling capabilities on an unauthorized basis.

2.1.7. RESTRICTION OF SERVICE

Services under this Tariff only are available to customers of the Company.

2.6. NOTICES AND COMMUNICATIONS

All notices or other communications required to be given pursuant to this Tariff will be in writing, except where notice is provided in this Tariff.

2.7. SPECIAL CONSTRUCTION

Subject to the agreement of the Company and to all of the regulations contained in this Tariff, special construction of facilities may be undertaken on a reasonable effort basis at the request of the Customer.

• Where facilities are not presently available, and there is no other requirement for the facilities so constructed;
• Of a type other than that which the Company would normally utilize;
• Over a route other than that which the Company would normally utilize;
• In a quantity greater than that which the Company would normally construct;
• On an expedited basis;
• On a temporary basis until permanent facilities are available;
• Involving abnormal costs.

3. SERVICE AREAS

3.1. LOCAL EXCHANGES

The Company will provide Voice Service in the specific Census Blocks where it has received Eligible Telecommunications Designation, its Designated Service Area.

Incumbent Carrier	Originating Exchange	Local Calling Area
Verizon Pennsylvania, Inc	McVeytown, PA	McVeytown, PA & Lewistown (Mifflin), PA

3.2. LOCAL CALLING AREA

The Company offers unlimited calling for Voice Service anywhere in the United States for a set monthly price.

4. SERVICE COMPONENTS AND PRODUCTS

4.1. BASIC VOICE SERVICE

4.1.1. VOICE SERVICE

Facilities, including fiber optic wire and other outside plant facilities, from the Company’s edge router to the ONT, to which Customer-provided station telephone equipment can be connected.

Includes local exchange service with network access, push button dialing capability, fiber drop wire to ONT, and necessary Service Vendor arrangements to maintain and operate subscriber Service features.

Caller ID, call waiting, 3-way calling, call forwarding, and voice mail are provided at no additional charge.

The monthly rates shown in this tariff do not include any terminal equipment telephones, ringers, couplers, or inside wiring.

4.1.2. VOICE SERVICE INSTALLATION CHARGE

The Voice Service Installation Charge is a non-recurring, one-time charge for activating Voice Service, whether purchased on a stand-alone basis or in conjunction with broadband internet access service.

This charge covers the service order costs in addition to the labor costs associated with activating Voice Service.

4.2. BACKUP BATTERY

Backup battery content and additional rate pages should continue in this section using the original tariff language.

4.3. RATES

Rates, taxes, surcharges, and miscellaneous charges should continue here using the exact tariff copy.

4.5. INDIVIDUAL CONTRACT BASED PRICING

Individual contract based pricing language should continue here using the exact tariff copy.

9-1-1 SERVICE

9-1-1 glossary, general, and regulation language should continue here using the exact tariff copy.

PENNSYLVANIA TELECOMMUNICATIONS RELAY SERVICE

General and surcharge language should continue here using the exact tariff copy.

5. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTS

5.1. MARKET TRIALS

Market trial language should continue here using the exact tariff copy.

5.2. PROMOTIONAL OFFERINGS

Promotional offerings language should continue here using the exact tariff copy.

6. LIFELINE SERVICE (cont’d)

6.1. LIFELINE SERVICE (cont’d)

6.1.3. LIFELINE VOICE SERVICE RATES

Until November 30, 2021, the applicable Residential Voice Service monthly rate minus $5.25.

Absent further action by the FCC, beginning December 1, 2021, the Lifeline credit shall be $0.00 unless there is only one Lifeline provider in the Census Block where the Customer subscribes to Voice Service.

Lifeline Service is subject to all applicable state, local and federal taxes, and surcharges, and to all applicable tariff rates, charges, surcharges and regulations.

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I, Colin Higgin, Vice President of Zito Mifflin County, LLC, do hereby certify that I have served the following parties by electronic mail delivery with Zito Mifflin County, LLC’s Tariff Telephone – Pa. P.U.C. No. 1:

Suzan D. Paiva
Assistant General Counsel Verizon
900 Race Street, 6th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Suzan.d.paiva@verizon.com

John R. Evans
Small Business Advocate
Pennsylvania Office of Small Business Advocate
555 Walnut St., 1st Floor
Harrisburg, PA 17101
jorevans@pa.gov

Tanya McCloskey
Acting Consumer Advocate
Pennsylvania Office of Consumer Advocate
555 Walnut St., 5th Floor
Harrisburg, PA 17101
tmccloskey@paoca.org

Barrett Sheridan
Assistant Consumer Advocate
Pennsylvania Office of Consumer Advocate
555 Walnut St., 5th Floor
Harrisburg, PA 17101
bsheridan@paoca.org

and that I have thereby complied with the service requirements of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission.

This, the 6th day of October, 2021.

Colin Higgin
Vice President
Zito Mifflin County, LLC
102 South Main Street
Coudersport, PA 16915

Phone: (814) 260-9588
E-mail: colin.higgin@zitomedia.com