On page 69 of the Committee Substitute, beginning at line 12
and running through line 26, revise as follows:
Sec. 58.005. RATES FOR BASIC NETWORK SERVICES; APPLICABILITY
OF PROVISIONS OF SUBTITLE. (a) Notwithstanding any other
provision of this title, an incumbent local exchange company may
not raise the company's retail price for basic network service in an
exchange to a price that is above the price the company charged on
January 1, 2005, for basic network service that included the same
components, before the date the company:
(1) the company reduces the company'sits intrastate
switched access rates on a combined originating and terminating
basis to parity with interstate switched access rates, as required
by Section 58.301(3); and
(2) the company certifies to the commission that the
companyit has made that reduction; and
(3) the commission determines that the exchange or
exchanges should be deregulated.
(b) On the date described by Subsection (a), the company may
raise retail rates for basic network service in an exchange the
commission has determined should be deregulated, and the company is
subject only to the following provisions of this subtitle: