Definitions

Definitions. The following terms shall have the meanings ascribed herein: 1. The terms "Board" and "CMRS Board" mean the Commercial Mobile Radio Service Board. 2. The term "automatic number identification" or "ANI" means an enhanced 911 service capability that enables the automatic display of the ten-digit wireless telephone number used to place a 911 call and includes "pseudo-automatic number identification" or "pseudo-ANI," which means an enhanced 911- service capability that enables the automatic display of the number of the cell site and an identification of the CMRS provider. 3. The term "commercial mobile radio service" or "CMRS" means commercial mobile radio service under Sections 3(27) and 332(d) of the Federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, 47 U.S.C. Section 151 et seq., and the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993, Pub. L. 103-66. The term includes the term "wireless" and service provided by any wireless real time two-way voice communication device, including radio- telephone communications used in cellular telephone service, personal communication service, or the functional or competitive equivalent of a radio- telephone communications line used in cellular telephone service, a personal communication service, specialized mobile radio service, or a network radio access line. The term does not include service whose customers do not have access to 911 or to a 911-like service, to a communications channel suitable only for date transmission, to a wireless roaming service or other non-local radio access line service, or to a private telecommunications system. 4. The term "commercial mobile radio service provider" or "CMRS provider" or the plural thereof, as the context requires, means a person or entity who provides commercial mobile radio service or CMRS service. 5. The term "CMRS connection" or the plural thereof, as the context requires, means each mobile handset telephone number assigned to a CMRS customer with a service address in the State of Mississippi. 6. The term "CMRS Fund" means the Commercial Mobile Radio Service Fund required to be established and maintained pursuant to Section II of these rules. 7. The term "CMRS service charge" or the plural thereof, as the context requires, means the CMRS emergency telephone service charge levied, maintained and collected pursuant to Section II of these rules. 8. The term "distribution formula" means the formula specified in Section II, 2-3 of these rules by which monies generated from the CMRS service charge are distributed on a percentage basis to emergency communications districts and to the CMRS Fund. Page 3 of 15 9. The term "ECD" means an emergency communications district created pursuant to Section 19-5-301, et seq., Mississippi Code of 1972, or by local and private acts of the State of Mississippi. 10. The term "enhanced 911," "E9ll," "enhanced E911 system" or "E911 system" means an emergency telephone system that provides the caller with emergency 911 system service, that directs enhanced 911 calls to the appropriate public safety answering points by selective routing based on the geographical location from which the call originated, and that provides the capability for automatic number identification and other features that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) may require in the future. 11. The term "exchange access facility" means an "exchange access facility" as defined by Section 19-5-303, Mississippi Code of 1972. 12. The term "FCC Order" means the order of the Federal Communications Commission, FCC Docket No. 94-102, adopted on June 12, 1996, and released on July 26, 1996. 13. The term "service address" means the location address if the location address is known and accessible; however, if the location address is not known and accessible, the term shall mean the billing address. 14. The term "service supplier" or the plural thereof, as the context requires, means a "service supplier" as defined by Section 19-5-303, Mississippi Code of 1972. 15. The term "technical proprietary information" means technology descriptions, technical information or trade secrets and the actual or developmental costs thereof which are developed, produced or received internally by a CMRS provider or by a CMRS provider's employees, directors, officers or agents.