170 IAC 7-1.2-2 Definitions

Sec. 2. The following definitions apply throughout this rule: (1) "Business days" means all days other than a: (A) Saturday; (B) Sunday; or (C) legal holiday. (2) "Call" means an attempted or completed telephone message. (3) "Certificate of territorial authority" or "CTA" means a CSP's authorization, as granted by the commission in compliance with IC 8-1-32.5, to provide service within a designated area. (4) "Commercial mobile radio services" or "CMRS" means a mobile service that is, pursuant to 47 CFR 20.3*. (5) "Commission" means the Indiana utility regulatory commission. (6) "Communications service" has the meaning set forth in IC 8-1-32.5-3. (7) "Communications service provider" or "CSP" has the meaning set forth in IC 8-1-32.5-4. (8) "Consumer affairs division" means the commission's division that reviews and issues dispositions on informal complaints submitted to the commission by customers under IC 8-1-2-34.5. (9) "Customer" means any: (A) person; (B) firm; (C) partnership; (D) corporation; (E) municipality; (F) governmental agency; (G) limited liability company; or (H) other entity; provided with LEC telecommunications service and may also be referred to as "end user". (10) "Eligible telecommunications carrier" or "ETC" means an ILEC or a common carrier designated as an ETC by the commission. (11) "Exchange" means a geographic service area established by an ILEC and approved by the commission, usually embracing a city, town, or village and designated surrounding or adjacent area, that typically encompasses one (1) or more central offices, together with the associated plant used in furnishing telecommunications service to the general public. (12) "Facility" means any one (1) or all of the elements of physical plant used to provide telecommunications services, sometimes used synonymously with "transmission path", including all of the physical cables and equipment associated with that path. (13) "Incumbent local exchange carrier" or "ILEC" means a local service LEC that provides telephone service to customers in the geographic territory served by the local exchange and that: (A) on February 8, 1996, provided telephone exchange service in the area and was deemed to be a member of the exchange carrier association under 47 CFR 69.601(b), 60 FR 19530 (April 19, 1995)*; or (B) is a person or entity that on or after February 8, 1996, became a successor or assign of a member described in clause (A). (14) "Legal holiday" means the following: (A) New Year's day. (B) Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. day. (C) Memorial day. (D) Independence day. (E) Labor day. (F) Veteran's day. (G) Thanksgiving day. (H) Christmas day. (I) Any other day appointed as a federal holiday by the President or the Congress of the United States or a state holiday by the governor of the state of Indiana. (15) "Local exchange carrier" or "LEC" has the meaning set forth in 47 U.S.C. 153(26)* that provides telephone service to customers in the geographic territory served by the local exchange described in the CTA for the LEC on file with the commission and excluding those services provided pursuant to a CTA issued for a radio common carrier or CMRS. The agents of an LEC are deemed to be the LEC for purposes of this rule. (16) "Local service area" means the area within which telephone service is furnished to customers under a specific schedule of exchange rates and without toll charges, which may include one (1) or more exchange areas or portions of exchange areas. (17) "Outage" has the meaning set forth in 47 CFR 4.5*. (18) "Utility" means any public utility as defined in IC 8-1-2-1. (19) "Utility consumer counselor" means the office established under IC 8-1-1.1-2. *This document is incorporated by reference. Copies may be obtained from the Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C. 20402 or are available for copying at the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission, 101 West Washington Street, Suite 1500E, Indianapolis, Indiana 46204.