Arizona Administrative Code › Title 14 - PUBLIC SERVICE CORPORATIONS; CORPORATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS; SECURITIES REGULATION › Chapter 2 - CORPORATION COMMISSION - FIXED UTILITIES › Article 11 - COMPETITIVE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES › Section R14-2-1102 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 28, July 12, 2024
Article, unless the context otherwise requires, the following
				  definitions shall apply:
1. "Arizona Corporation Commission" or "Commission." The
				  regulatory agency of the state of Arizona having jurisdiction over public
				  service corporations operating in Arizona.
2. "Bona Fide Request." A written request submitted by a
				  telecommunications company to a local exchange carrier for intraLATA equal
				  access service or for interconnection arrangements.
3. "Central Office." A facility within a telecommunications
				  system where calls are switched and which contains all the necessary equipment,
				  operating arrangements, and interface points for terminating and
				  interconnecting facilities such as subscribers' line and interoffice
				  trunks.
4. "Competitive Telecommunications Service." Any
				  telecommunications service where customers of the service within the relevant
				  market have or are likely to have reasonably available alternatives.
5. "Docket Control Center." The Commission section
				  responsible for the acceptance and processing of all applications and other
				  filings, and for official record maintenance.
6. "Equal Access." An arrangement where a local exchange
				  company provides all telecommunications companies operating in an equal access
				  central office with dialing arrangements and other service characteristics that
				  are equivalent in type and quality to what the local exchange carrier utilizes
				  in the provision of its service.
7. "Local Exchange Carrier." A telecommunications company
				  that provides local exchange service as one of the telecommunications services
				  it offers to the public.
8. "Local Exchange Service." The telecommunications service
				  that provides a local dial tone, access line, and local usage within an
				  exchange or local calling area.
9. "Monopoly Service." A monopoly service is any
				  telecommunications service provided by a telecommunications company that is not
				  subject to competition in the relevant market.
10. "Primary Interexchange Company" or "PIC." The
				  telecommunications company with whom a customer may presubscribe to provide
				  1+/0+ toll service, without the use of access codes, following equal access
				  implementation.
11. "Rate." Within the context of this Article, this term
				  refers to the maximum tariffed rate approved by the Commission, from which the
				  competitive telecommunications service provided may be discounted down to the
				  total service long-run incremental cost of providing the service.
12. "Relevant Market." Where buyers and sellers of a specific
				  service or product, or a group of services or products, come together to engage
				  in transactions. For telecommunications services, the relevant market may be
				  identified on a service-by-service basis, a group basis, and/or by geographic
				  location.
13. "Staff." The staff of the Arizona Corporation Commission
				  or its designated representative or representatives.
14. "Tariffs." The documents filed with the Commission which
				  list the services and products offered by a telecommunications company and
				  which set forth the terms and conditions and a schedule of the rates and
				  charges for those services and products.
15. "Telecommunications Company." A public service
				  corporation, as defined in the Arizona Constitution, Article 15, § 2, that
				  provides telecommunications services within the state of Arizona and over which
				  the Commission has jurisdiction.
16. "Telecommunications Service." Any transmission of
				  interactive switched and non-switched signs, signals, writing, images, sounds,
				  messages, data, or other information of any nature by wire, radio, lightwave,
				  or any other electromagnetic means (including access services), which originate
				  and terminate in this state and are offered to or for the public, or some
				  portion thereof, for compensation.
17. "Total Service Long Run Incremental Cost." The total
				  additional cost incurred by a telecommunications company to produce the entire
				  quantity of a service, given that the telecommunications company already
				  provides all of its other services. Total Service Long-run Incremental Cost is
				  based on the least cost, most efficient technology that is capable of being
				  implemented at the time the decision to provide the service is made.
18. "2-PIC Toll Equal Access." The equal access option that
				  affords customers the opportunity to select one telecommunications company for
				  all interLATA 1+/0+ toll calls and, at the customer's option, to select another
				  telecommunications company for all intraLATA 1+/0+ toll calls.
19. "Unbundled." Disaggregation of the local exchange carrier
				  network services.