Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 30 - Professions and Occupations › Part 601 - Organization & Structure › Chapter 1 - General Provision › Rule 30-601-1.1 - Definitions

Current through June 25, 2024
The following terms shall have the meanings ascribed
				  herein:
1. The terms "Board" and "CMRS Board" mean the Commercial
				  Mobile Radio Service Board.
2. The term "automatic number identification" or "ANI" means
				  an enhanced 911 service capability that enables the automatic display of the
				  ten-digit wireless telephone number used to place a 911 call and includes
				  "pseudo-automatic number identification" or "pseudo-ANI," which means an
				  enhanced 911- service capability that enables the automatic display of the
				  number of the cell site and an identification of the CMRS provider.
3. The term "commercial mobile radio service" or "CMRS"
				  means commercial mobile radio service under Sections 3(27) and 332(d) of the
				  Federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, 47 U.S.C. Section 151 et seq., and the
				  Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993,
				  Pub. L.
				  103-66. The term includes the term "wireless" and
				  service provided by any wireless real time two-way voice communication device,
				  including radiotelephone communications used in cellular telephone service,
				  personal communication service, or the functional or competitive equivalent of
				  a radiotelephone communications line used in cellular telephone service, a
				  personal communication service, specialized mobile radio service, or a network
				  radio access line. The term does not include service whose customers do not
				  have access to 911 or to a 911-like service, to a communications channel
				  suitable only for date transmission, to a wireless roaming service or other
				  non-local radio access line service, or to a private telecommunications
				  system.
4. The term "commercial mobile radio service provider" or
				  "CMRS provider" or the plural thereof, as the context requires, means a person
				  or entity who provides commercial mobile radio service or CMRS service.
5. The term "CMRS connection" or the plural thereof, as the
				  context requires, means each mobile handset telephone number assigned to a CMRS
				  customer with a service address in the State of Mississippi.
6. The term "CMRS Fund" means the Commercial Mobile Radio
				  Service Fund required to be established and maintained pursuant to Section II
				  of these rules.
7. The term "CMRS service charge" or the plural thereof, as
				  the context requires, means the CMRS emergency telephone service charge levied,
				  maintained and collected pursuant to Section II of these rules.
8. The term "distribution formula" means the formula
				  specified in Section II, 2-3 of these rules by which monies generated from the
				  CMRS service charge are distributed on a percentage basis to emergency
				  communications districts and to the CMRS Fund.
9. The term "ECD" means an emergency communications district
				  created pursuant to Section
				  19-5-301, et
				  seq., Mississippi Code of 1972, or by local and private acts of the State of
				  Mississippi.
10. The term "enhanced 911," "E9ll," "enhanced E911 system"
				  or "E911 system" means an emergency telephone system that provides the caller
				  with emergency 911 system service, that directs enhanced 911 calls to the
				  appropriate public safety answering points by selective routing based on the
				  geographical location from which the call originated, and that provides the
				  capability for automatic number identification and other features that the
				  Federal Communications Commission (FCC) may require in the future.
11. The term "exchange access facility" means an "exchange
				  access facility" as defined by Section
				  19-5-303,
				  Mississippi Code of 1972.
12. The term "FCC Order" means the order of the Federal
				  Communications Commission, FCC Docket No. 94-102, adopted on June 12, 1996, and
				  released on July 26, 1996.
13. The term 'service address" means the location address if
				  the location address is known and accessible; however, if the location address
				  is not known and accessible, the term shall mean the billing address.
14. The term 'service supplier" or the plural thereof, as
				  the context requires, means a 'service supplier" as defined by Section
				  19-5-303,
				  Mississippi Code of 1972.
15. The term "technical proprietary information" means
				  technology descriptions, technical information or trade secrets and the actual
				  or developmental costs thereof which are developed, produced or received
				  internally by a CMRS provider or by a CMRS provider's employees, directors,
				  officers or agents.
Miss. Code Ann.
				  §§
										19-5-331
				  and
				  19-5-333(2)(h)(Rev.
				  2003 & Supp. 2010).