Section 55.044 - Exemption(a) The commission may not require an incumbent local exchange company serving the petitioning or requested exchange to expand the company's toll-free local calling area under this subchapter if:(1) the incumbent local exchange company has fewer than 10,000 access lines;(2) the petitioning or requested exchange is served by a telephone cooperative corporation;(3) extended area service or extended metropolitan service is available between the exchanges;(4) the petitioning or requested exchange is a metropolitan exchange; or(5) the commission determines that the company has shown that to serve the area is not geographically or technologically feasible.(b) To promote the wide dispersion of pay telephones, the commission may:(1) exempt pay telephones from this subchapter; or(2) change the rates charged for calls from pay telephones. Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 166, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1997.