Alaska Administrative Code › Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development › Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska › Chapter 52 - Operation of Public Utilities › Article 3 - Telephone Utilities › 3 AAC 52.340 - Definitions

Current through May 31, 2024
Unless the context indicates otherwise, in
					 3 AAC 52.300 -
					 3 AAC 52.340
(1) "access code for long-distance operator"
				  means the preliminary digits that must be dialed to be connected to the
				  long-distance operator;
(2) "access
				  line" means a circuit between a subscriber's telephone or private branch
				  exchange and the switching center which serves them;
(3) "attempt" means the offering or
				  initiating of a telephone call by a calling customer;
(4) "attendant trunk" means a trunk
				  connecting the caller to an operator;
(5) "average busy season busy hour" means the
				  time-consistent hour, not necessarily a clock hour, having the highest business
				  day load throughout the busy season; it is the same hour for the entire busy
				  season;
(6) "blockage" means a
				  failure in the sequence of connecting a calling customer to a called customer
				  caused by equipment in the busy condition;
(7) "bona fide request" means a good-faith
				  written request by a certificated intrastate interexchange carrier, other than
				  the incumbent carrier, to a local exchange telephone utility for equal access
				  service;
(8) "business day" means
				  each day of a calendar week except Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays; holidays
				  are the days which are observed by each individual telephone utility;
(9) "busy hour" means the continuous one-hour
				  period of the day during which the greatest volume of traffic is handled by the
				  facility;
(10) "busy season" means
				  the period of the year consisting from one to three consecutive calendar months
				  during which the greatest volume of traffic is handled in a given central
				  office;
(11) "cable assignment
				  records" means listings of all cable pairs and the interconnections that have
				  been made between them and other cables or equipment;
(12) "call" means an attempted telephone
				  message;
(13) "ccs" means a hundred
				  call seconds; it is a unit of measurement of telephone traffic and represents
				  the equivalent of one call lasting for 100 seconds;
(14) "central office" means a facility having
				  the necessary equipment and operating arrangements for terminating and
				  interconnecting customer lines and trunks or trunks only; however, there may be
				  more than one central office in a building;
(15) "central office entity" means a group of
				  lines using common originating equipment;
(16) "commission" means the Regulatory
				  Commission of Alaska;
(17)
				  "construction program" means a list of projects with their related expenditures
				  that are planned for the budget year; project categories include land and
				  building, central office equipment, outside plant, station equipment, and
				  general equipment;
(18)
				  "cross-talk" means an unwanted signal in one circuit coming from an adjacent
				  circuit;
(19) "customer" means a
				  person, firm, partnership, corporation, municipality, cooperative organization,
				  or governmental agency supplied with telecommunication service by a telephone
				  utility;
(20) "customer line" means
				  a circuit connecting a customer's instrument to the central office;
(21) "customer trouble report" means an oral
				  or written complaint from a customer or user of telecommunication service
				  relating to a physical defect, a difficulty or dissatisfaction with the
				  operation of the utility's facilities; one report must be counted for each oral
				  or written report received even though it may duplicate a previous report or
				  merely involve an inquiry concerning progress on a previous report; when
				  several troubles are reported by one customer, a separate report must be
				  counted for each trouble;
(22)
				  "demand and facility chart" means a chart which presents in statistical and
				  graphical form the past history, current status, and future projection of
				  central office data; one chart includes data for one central office entity or
				  toll switch and contains future expansion plans;
(23) repealed 1/1/2016;
(24) "directory assistance" means the
				  furnishing of telephone numbers to customers;
(25) "equal access" means a method of
				  interconnection between a local exchange telephone utility and all long
				  distance carriers serving the exchange that
(A) allows a customer's interexchange calls
				  to be automatically directed to the customer's chosen primary interexchange
				  carrier when the customer dials 1-plus or any other abbreviated dialing
				  arrangement authorized by the commission;
(B) requires local exchange telephone utility
				  access service to be made available in equal kind, quality, and price to all
				  interexchange telephone utilities; and
(C) is commonly provided using Feature Group
				  D signalling and interconnection arrangements;