TELRIC

(Total Element Long Run Incremental Cost) A calculation method that the FCC requires ILECs to use to charge CLECs for interconnection and colocation. It provides a price ceiling for such services. See ILEC and CLEC.

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DEFICIENCIES OF TELRIC PRICING: THE ILEC'S RIGHT UNDER ANTITRUST

Are regulators forward-looking? The market price of copper versus the regulated price of mandatory access to unbundled local loops in telecommunications networks

Under TELRIC, UNE rates are based on the element's "economic

Toward a unified theory of access to local telephone networks

reconsider how the TELRIC pricing methodology deals with the firm's

Costs and consequences of federal telecommunications regulations

The FCC excluded opportunity cost from TELRIC as part of the

Verizon Communications, Inc. V. FCC - telecommunications access pricing and regulator accountability through administrative law and takings jurisprudence

This, in turn, is why it is so important to ensure that TELRIC prices do not come into direct conflict with other pricing systems that are simultaneously imposed upon the ILECs.

TELRIC vs. universal service: a takings violation?

Like the comment concerning the legality of TELRIC pricing, this comment is woefully outdated, as the RBOCs now have Section 271 authority in all 48 continental states and the District of Columbia.

Controlling Market Power in Telecommunications: Antitrust vs. Sector-specific Regulation

Indeed, Alfred Kahn, one of the harshest critics of TELRIC pricing rules, has stated that "It is difficult-- ...

Promoting innovation and the deployment of advanced telecommunications services to businesses

(84) However, this implication presupposes the lack of TELRIC pricing requirements as preconditions to receiving authority under Section 271 of the '96 Act to provide long distance services and the fact that the FCC had found the ILEC cut over process inadequate for handing off customers' traffic to a competitor.

What do pizza delivery and information services have in common? Lessons from recent judicial and regulatory struggles with convergence

The FCC mandated that UNE prices be based on the Total Element Long Run Incremental Cost (TELRIC) standard, a forward-looking economic cost methodology.

Does allowing the bells to offer InterLATA long-distance service affect entry into local telephony?

The stick, as implemented in the FCC rules, mandated that incumbent local exchange carriers (including Bell companies) allow requesting carriers to: interconnect to their local networks where feasible with charges based on Total Element Long-Run Incremental Cost (TELRIC); unbundle network elements and provide requesting carriers access to these at TELRIC prices; and resell telecommunications services provided at the retail level to requesting carriers at a wholesale price based on retail prices minus avoidable costs.

V. Product market competition and economic performance

This article is not the venue to explore problems created by the alphabet soup of FCC's telecom programs like TRO, TELRIC, UNE-P.

Commentary: threats to competitiveness in a political environment

consumers and businesses, the current cynicism, ideological bias and outright ignorance towards UNE-P and TELRIC pricing must come to an end."