Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION › Title 291 - NEBRASKA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION › Chapter 15 - ENHANCED WIRELESS 911 SERVICES RULES AND REGULATIONS › Section 291-15-001 - GENERAL

Current through June 17, 2024
001.01
Definitions
:
				As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the following
				definitions apply:
001.01A Advisory Board
				means the Enhanced Wireless 911 Advisory Board.
001.01B Automatic number identification (AND
				means a feature by which a person calling a PSAP has his or her ten-digit
				telephone number simultaneously forwarded to the PSAP and to the PSAP's display
				and transfer units.
001.01C
				Commission means the Nebraska Public Service Commission.
001-01D E-911 or enhanced-911 service means a telephone
				  exchange communications service by which one or more PSAPs designated by the
				  governing body may receive telephone calls dialed to the telephone number 911.
				  E-911 service generally may provide, but is not limited to, selective routing,
				  ANI, and automatic location identification (ALI) features.
001.01E Enhanced wireless 911 service means a
				telephone exchange communications service by which wireless carriers can
				provide automatic number identification, pseudo-automatic number
				identification, and wireless automatic location identification information to a
				PSAP which has capability of providing selective routing, selective transfer,
				fixed transfer, automatic number identification, and wireless automatic
				location identification.
001.01F
				Fund means the Enhanced Wireless 911 Fund.
001.01G Funding year means the year for which
				funding is awarded under the permanent funding mechanism from July 1 through
				June 30.
001.01H Governing body
				means the board of county commissioners or supervisors of a county, the city
				council of a city, the board of trustees of a village, or the board of
				directors of any rural or suburban fire protection district.
001.01l Home service provider means a
				telecommunications company that has contracted with a customer to provide
				wireless service.
001.01J 911
				service means a telephone service which provides a service user with the
				ability to reach a PSAP by dialing the digits 911 for the purpose of reporting
				emergencies. The level of technology used for 911 service in a particular 911
				service area shall be determined by the governing bodies having jurisdiction
				over such area.
001.01K Prepaid
				wireless telecommunications service means a wireless telecommunications service
				that allows a caller to dial 911 to access the 911 system, which service must
				be paid for in advance and is sold in predetermined units or dollars of which
				the number declines with use in a known amount.
001.01L Primary place of use means for users
				of wireless service other than prepaid wireless service, the street address
				representative of where the use of wireless service primarily occurs. The place
				of primary use shall be the residential street address or the primary business
				street address of the user of the wireless service and shall be within the
				service area of the home service provider. For users of prepaid wireless
				service, primary place of use means the location associated with the telephone
				number assigned to the user.
001.01M Pseudo-automatic number
				identification means a feature by which automatic number identification is
				provided to a PSAP of the ten-digit telephone number of the specific cell site
				or cell site sector from which a wireless call originated.
001.01N Public safety agency means an agency
				which actually provides firefighting, law enforcement, ambulance, emergency
				medical, or other emergency services.
001.01O Public safety answering point (PSAP)
				means a twenty-four hour, local-jurisdiction communications facility which
				receives 911 service calls and either directly dispatches emergency services or
				relays calls to the appropriate public safety agency.
001.01P Surcharge means the Enhanced Wireless
				911 Surcharge.
001.01Q Ten-digit
				telephone number means a telephone number assigned to a particular telephone
				account including the area code.
001.01R Wireless automatic location
				identification (ALI) means a feature by which information is provided to a PSAP
				identifying the location, the latitude and longitude within the parameters
				established by the Federal Communications Commission, of a wireless unit
				originating a call to a PSAP.
001.01S Wireless carrier means any carrier of
				mobile service as referenced in
				47
				U.S.C. 153(27), as such
				section existed on January 1, 2007; any carrier of commercial mobile service as
				referenced in
				47 U.S.C.
				332(d)(1), as such section
				existed on January 1, 2007; any carrier of commercial mobile radio service as
				referenced in
				47
				C.F.R. 20.9, as such regulation existed on
				January 1, 2007; or any cellular radiotelephone service, licensees of a
				personal communications service, and specialized mobile radio services as
				referenced in
				47
				C.F.R. 20.9, as such regulation existed on
				January 1, 2007. References to wireless carrier include those wireless carriers
				providing prepaid wireless telecommunications service as defined in section
				001.0IK unless
				specifically exempted.
001.01T
				Wireless service means any mobile service as defined in
				47
				U.S.C. 153 and 47 C.F.R. 27.4, as such
				section and regulation existed on January 1, 2007; any commercial mobile
				service as defined in
				47 U.S.C.
				332(d), as such section
				existed on January 1, 2007; or any commercial mobile radio service as
				referenced in
				47
				C.F.R. 20.9, as such regulation existed on
				January 1, 2007.