Illinois Administrative Code › Title 83 - PUBLIC UTILITIES › Part 770 - OPERATOR SERVICE PROVIDERS › Section 770.10 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
"Access code" means a sequence of numbers that, when dialed,
				connects the caller to the provider of operator services associated with that
				sequence. These access codes include, but are not limited to, 950, 1-800 and
				10XXX.
"Act" means the Public Utilities Act [220 ILCS 5 ].
"Aggregator" meansanyperson or entity,thatis notan operator service
				provider and thatin the ordinary course of itsoperationsmakes telephones available
				to the public or to transient users of itspremises,including, but not limited to, a
				hotel, motel, hospital, or university,for telephone calls between points within this
				State that are specified by the user usingan operator service provider (Section
				13-901 of the Act).
"Call splashing" means the transfer of a telephone call from one
				provider of operator services to another such provider in such a manner that the
				subsequent provider is unable or unwilling to determine the location of origination
				of the call, and because of such inability or unwillingness is prevented from
				billing the call on the basis of such location.
"Commission" means the Illinois Commerce Commission.
"Consumer" means a person initiating any intrastate telephone call
				using operator services.
"Contract" means any contract that involves the provision of
				operator services.
"Equal access" has the meaning given that term in Appendix B of the
				Modification of Final Judgement entered by the United States District Court on
				August 24, 1982 in United States v. Western Electric, Civil Action No. 82-0192
				(D.D.C. 1982), as amended by the Court in its orders issued prior to September 1,
				1994.
"Equal access code" means an access code that allows the consumer to
				obtain an equal access connection to the carrier associated with that code.
"FCC" means the Federal Communications Commission.
"GDP Implicit Price Deflator" means the index that the Department of
				Commerce produces to measure the price level for a varied market basket of goods and
				services in the economy. The recorded measure of the GDP Implicit Price Deflator as
				reported by the WEFA Group is to be used for purposes of this Part.
"Operator service provider" means every telecommunications
				carrierthatprovidesoperatorservicesor any other person or entity that the Commission
				determines is providing operator services (Section 13-901 of the Act).
"Operator services" means any telecommunications service that
				includes, as a component, any automatic or live assistance to a consumer to arrange
				for billing or completion, or both, of a telephone call between points within this
				State that are specified by the user through a method other than:
Automatic completion with billing to the telephone from which the
				call originated;
Completion through an access code or a proprietary account number
				used by the consumer, with billing to an account previously established with the
				carrier by the consumer; or
Completion in association with directory assistance services
				(Section 13-901 of the Act).