Source: https://www.fcc.gov/general/special-access-data-collection-glossary-terms
Timestamp: 2019-11-14 16:24:42
Document Index: 241708636

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 69', '§ 69', '§ 61', '§ 22', '§ 69', '§ 69', '§ 69', '§ 51', '§ 51']

Special Access Data Collection -- Glossary of Terms | Federal Communications Commission
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Special Access Data Collection -- Glossary of Terms
Competitive Provider means a competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC), interexchange carrier, cable operator, wireless provider or any other entity that is subject to the Commission’s jurisdiction under the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, and either provides a Dedicated Service or provides a Connection over which a Dedicated Service could be provided. A Competitive Provider does not include an ILEC operating within its incumbent service territory.
Connection means a wired “line” or wireless “channel” that provides a dedicated communication path between a Location and the first Node on a Provider’s network. Multiple dedicated communication paths serving one or more End Users at the same Location should be counted as a single Connection. A Connection may be a UNE, including an Unbundled Copper Loop if modified to provide a Dedicated Service. A Connection must have the capability of being used to provide one or more Dedicated Services; however, a Connection can be used to provide other services as well. For example, a dedicated communication path that is currently being used to provide a mass market broadband service but has the capability to provide a Dedicated Service is considered a Connection for the purpose of this data collection.
Contract-Based Tariff means a Tariff, other than a Tariff Plan, that is based on a service contract entered into between a customer and an ILEC which has obtained permission to offer contract-based tariff services pursuant to 47 C.F.R. § 69.701 et seq. of the Commission’s pricing flexibility rules or a comparable tariffed intrastate service contract between a customer and an ILEC.
Dedicated Service transports data between two or more designated points, e.g., between an End User’s premises and a point-of-presence, between the central office of a local exchange carrier (LEC) and a point-of-presence, or between two End User premises, at a rate of at least 1.5 Mbps in both directions (upstream/downstream) with prescribed performance requirements that include bandwidth-, latency-, or error-rate guarantees or other parameters that define delivery under a Tariff or in a service-level agreement. Dedicated Service includes, but is not limited to, CBDS and PBDS. For the purpose of this data collection, Dedicated Service does not include “best effort” services, e.g., mass market broadband services such as DSL and cable modem broadband access.
Disconnection means the process by which a Provider, per a customer request, terminates billing on one or more of a customer’s Dedicated Service circuits.
End User Channel Termination means, as defined in 47 C.F.R. § 69.703(a)(2), a dedicated channel connecting a LEC end office and a customer premises, offered for purposes of carrying special access traffic.
Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier (ILEC) means, for the purpose of this data collection, a LEC that provides a Dedicated Service in study areas where it is subject to price cap regulation under sections 61.41-61.49 of the Commission’s rules, 47 C.F.R. §§ 61.41-61.49.
Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) is a geographic area as defined by 47 C.F.R. §§ 22.909(a), 69.703(b).
Node is an aggregation point, a branch point, or a point of interconnection on a Provider’s network, including a point of interconnection to other Provider networks. Examples include LEC central offices, remote terminal locations, splice points (including, for example, at manholes), controlled environmental vaults, cable system headends, cable modem termination system (CMTS) locations, and facility hubs.
Non-MSA is the portion of an ILEC’s study area that falls outside the boundaries of an MSA.
Phase I Pricing Flexibility means regulatory relief for the pricing of End User Channel Terminations pursuant to 47 C.F.R. §§ 69.711(b), 69.727(a) of the Commission’s rules.
Phase II Pricing Flexibility means regulatory relief for the pricing of End User Channel Terminations pursuant to 47 C.F.R. §§ 69.711(c), 69.727(b) of the Commission’s rules.
Prior Purchase-Based Commitment means a type of Volume Commitment where the commitment is based on either: (i)	a certain percentage or number of the customer’s purchased in-service circuits or lines as measured at the time of making the Volume Commitment or measured during a period of time prior to making the Volume Commitment, e.g., based on the customer’s billing records for the current month or prior month(s); or (ii)	a certain percentage or dollar amount of Revenues generated by the customer’s purchases as measured at the time of making the Volume Commitment or during a period of time prior to making the Volume Commitment.
Purchasers means Competitive Providers and End Users that are subject to the Commission’s jurisdiction under the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, and that purchased Dedicated Services of $5 million or more in 2013 in areas where the ILEC is subject to price cap regulation.
Transport Service means a dedicated circuit that connects a designated Competitive Provider’s premises to the wire center that serves the Competitive Provider’s customer. Such an arrangement may or may not include channel mileage. See 47 C.F.R. § 69.709(a).
Unbundled Copper Loop means a copper wire local loop provided by ILECs to requesting telecommunications carriers on a non-discriminatory basis pursuant to 47 C.F.R. § 51.319(a)(1) that can be used by a Competitive Provider to provide a Dedicated Service, e.g., Ethernet over Copper. An Unbundled Copper Loop is typically a 2- or 4- wire loop that the ILEC has conditioned to remove intervening equipment such as bridge taps, load coils, repeaters, low pass filters, range extenders, etc. between a Location and the serving wire center to allow for the provision of advanced digital services by a Competitive Provider. These loops are commonly referred to as dry copper, bare copper, or xDSL-compatible loops. An Unbundled Copper Loop is a type of UNE.
Unbundled Network Element (UNE) means a local loop provided by an ILEC to a requesting telecommunications carrier on a non-discriminatory basis pursuant to 47 C.F.R. § 51.319(a).