
GTE
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Florida
Unbundled Network Element (UNE) Non-Recurring Cost Study
Introduction
The Unbundled Network Element
(UNE)
Non-recurring Cost (NRC) Study is filed in
compliance with the Florida Public Utility Commission’s (PUC) Docket No. 990649-TP, Order
No. PSC-00-0540-PCO-TP dated March
16,2000.
The
UNE
NRC Study is a forward-looking
study that accounts for the activities required to pre-order, order, provision and install products
and services for Competitive Local Exchange Carriers (CLECs.)
GTE has developed a standard Wholesale Non-recurring Cost Study template to determine and
document the applicable costs for all Unbundled Network Elements
(UNEs)
including Network
Wholesale Services and Unbundled Network Element
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Platforms
(UNE-Ps).
This Wholesale
Non-recurring Cost Study includes only costs for Sub-loop Unbundling and Dark Fiber. This
filing
is
considered Phase 4
of
the referenced docket.
The cost team consisting
of
GTE’s cost managers and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) worked in
conjunction with a team of Arthur Andersen LLP professionals to develop the NRC Study
template, to identify the process
flows
for ordering, provisioning and installation, and to gather
cost data. This cost study is a GTE work product.
UNE NRC Studv Relationship to Other Cost Studies
The
UNE
NRC Study is one of GTE’s Wholesale Costs Study modules. There are
four
other
modules: Resale NRC, Recurring Costs of Resale, Recurring Costs of
UNEs,
and the Expanded
Interconnection Services
(EIS)
(collocation recurring and non-recurring) Costs. Though these
costs are interrelated, they
are
not duplicative. GTE has diligently reviewed all inputs to each of
these modules to insure there is no incident of double-counting costs.
GTE has recurring and non-recurring cost study modules for its Retail and Access products and
services. To determine costs for certain
UNEs
where
no
ordering, provisioning or installation
data were available, the cost team used analogous retail
or
access services
as
proxies for the
UNES.
Cost Studv Methodologv
For
the purpose of
this
study, the non-recurring cost of a service is the cost of a set of activities
that
is
completed by the company in response to a specific Local Service Request (LSR) or
Access Service Request (ASR) placed by a CLEC. These activities are non-recurring in that they
are typically undertaken once at the time a service is activated, modified, or discontinued per a
CLEC request. GTE’s
UNE
NRC study is a forward-looking study that:
Assumes enhancements to GTE’s systems and databases resulting in increased
mechanization;
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