Arizona Administrative Code › Title 14 - PUBLIC SERVICE CORPORATIONS; CORPORATIONS AND ASSOCIATIONS; SECURITIES REGULATION › Chapter 2 - CORPORATION COMMISSION - FIXED UTILITIES › Article 13 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS INTERCONNECTION AND UNBUNDLING › Section R14-2-1302 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 28, July 12, 2024
In this Article, unless the context otherwise requires, the
				  following definitions shall apply:
1. "800 data base" means an 800 service data base that
				  contains information on the screening and routing of 800 numbers that are in
				  service.
2. "AIN data base" means a data base that is used in
				  connection with an Advanced Intelligent Network (AIN) architecture. The AIN
				  architecture enables telecommunications service providers to introduce advanced
				  telecommunications services.
3. "ALI" or "Automatic Location Identification" means the
				  process of electronically identifying and displaying the name of the subscriber
				  and address of the calling telephone number to a person answering a 911
				  call.
4. "Central Office Code" means the first three digits of a
				  seven-digit telephone number. Central office codes are assigned to
				  telecommunications providers by the central office code administrator in
				  accordance with the industry's central office code assignment
				  guidelines.
5. "Centralized Message Distribution System" or "CMDS" means
				  the system managed by Bellcore that assists in billing third party calls.
				  Access to CMDS requires a Bellcore client company host.
6. "Directory Assistance Database Listings" means customer
				  name, address, and telephone number listings in the LEC directory assistance
				  database.
7. "E911" access means the ability of a LEC to interconnect
				  with and deliver emergency calls, and associated ANI and ALI information, where
				  available, to the E-911 controlling office for further routing to the
				  appropriate Public Safety Answering Point.
8. "Essential facility or service" means any portion,
				  component, or function of the network or service offered by a provider of local
				  exchange service: that is necessary for a competitor to provide a public
				  telecommunications service; that cannot be reasonable duplicated; and for which
				  there is no adequate economic alternative to the competitor in terms of
				  quality, quantity, and price.
9. "Extended Area Service" or "EAS" means local (toll-free)
				  calling provided between local exchange carrier exchanges (service
				  areas).
10. "Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier" means any company
				  providing service as a local exchange carrier in Arizona prior to June 23,
				  1995.
11. "Interconnection Services" means those features and
				  functions of a local exchange carriers network that enable other local exchange
				  carriers to provide local exchange and exchange access services.
				  Interconnection services include, but are not limited to, those services
				  offered by local exchange carriers which have been classified by the Commission
				  as essential services.
12. "LIDB" or "Line Information Data Base" means a data base
				  that contains access line information that is used by telecommunications
				  service providers for billing validation.
13. "Local Exchange Carrier" or "LEC" means a
				  telecommunications company that provides local exchange service as one of the
				  telecommunications services it offers to the public.
14. "Local Number Portability" means permitting customers to
				  choose between authorized providers of local exchange services within a given
				  wire center without changing their telephone number and without impairment of
				  quality, functionality, reliability, or convenience of use.
15. "Mutual traffic exchange" means the exchange of
				  terminating local and EAS traffic between LECs such that all LECs terminate the
				  local exchange traffic of all other LECs without explicitly charging each other
				  for such traffic exchange.
16. "New Entrant Local Exchange Carrier" or "NELEC" means any
				  company certificated by the Commission after June 23, 1995, as a local exchange
				  carrier.
17. "Numbering Plan Administration" or "NPA" means a specific
				  geographic area identified by a unique NPA code. The NPA (area code) is a
				  3-digit code that identifies the NPA for purposes of call routing. The NPA
				  Administrator is the entity within a NPA that assigns central office prefixes
				  (telephone numbers) to users in the NPA.
18. "Public Safety Answering Point" or "PSAP" means a
				  communications facility operated on a 24-hour basis that is assigned the
				  responsibility to receive 911 calls and, as appropriate, to dispatch public or
				  private safety services or to extend, transfer, or relay 911 calls to the
				  appropriate public or private safety agencies.
19. "Rate Center" means specific geographic locations from
				  which airline mileage measurements are determined for the purpose of rating
				  local, Extended Area Service (EAS), and toll traffic.
20. "Reciprocal Compensation" means the arrangement by which
				  local exchange carriers compensate each other for like services used in the
				  termination of local calls between the customers of the two carriers.
21. "Resale of local service" means the purchase by a local
				  exchange carrier from another local exchange carrier a local exchange service
				  provisioned directly to an end-user customer and rebrands it as its own
				  service.
22. "Total Service Long Run Incremental Cost" or "TSLRIC" is
				  as defined in
				  R14-2-1102(17).
23. "White Pages Listings" means customer name, address, and
				  telephone number listings in the white pages Section of LEC telephone
				  directories.
24. "Yellow Pages Listings" means customer name, address, and
				  telephone number listings in the yellow pages Section of LEC telephone
				  directories.
The Arizona
				  Corporation Commission has determined that the following Section is exempt from
				  the Attorney General approval provisions of the Arizona Administrative
				  Procedure Act (A.R.S. § 41-1041 ) by a court order (State ex. rel. Corbin
				  v. Arizona Corporation Commission, 174 Ariz. 216 848 P.2d 301 (App.
				  1992)).