Section 102. IntraLATA presubscribed interexchange carrier-change charge study

1. As  used  in  this  section,  the  following  terms  have  the
  following meanings:
    (a) "Provider of telephone service" means a telephone corporation that
  provides  intraLATA  or  local  exchange  telephone  service  to end-use
  customers.
    (b) "Customer change of use  charges"  means  intraLATA  presubscribed
  interexchange  carrier-change  charges, that any provider of residential
  or single-line business telephone service levies upon the  customer  for
  the  customer's  change in intraLATA presubscribed interexchange carrier
  service or complete termination of that service.
    (c) "Customer local calling plan" means any residential or single-line
  business telephone plan,  exclusively  for  the  purpose  of  completing
  regional  intraLATA  calls,  offered  by  any  telegraph  corporation or
  telephone corporation, subject to section ninety of this article.
    2. The commission shall conduct a study to analyze  trends  associated
  with  customer  change of use charges related to changes of a customer's
  local calling plan and determine the extent to which these changes  take
  place  and  the  actual cost for a provider of telephone service to make
  all the necessary changes  associated  with  such  a  change.  From  its
  findings,  the  commission shall publish a report regarding the activity
  related to changes in local calling plans and the costs associated  with
  the  changes  of  such  plans.  The  report must be published within one
  hundred twenty days of the effective date of this section. A copy of the
  report must be furnished to the temporary president of the  senate,  the
  speaker  of  the  assembly,  the  chairperson  of  the  senate  standing
  committee on energy and telecommunications, and the chairperson  of  the
  assembly   standing   committee   on   corporations,   authorities   and
  commissions.
    3. In cases where the customer's calling plan was altered  by,  or  on
  behalf  of, a telegraph corporation and/or telephone corporation subject
  to section ninety of this article, other than the customer's provider of
  telephone service, the telegraph corporation  or  telephone  corporation
  shall  pay  the  customer  change  of  use  charges  to  the provider of
  telephone service.
    4. The commission shall  notify  customers  of  its  findings  on  its
  official world wide web website.