Ohio Administrative Code › Title 4901:1 - Utilities › Chapter 4901:1-6 - Retail Telecommunication Services › Section 4901:1-6-01 - Definitions

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1,
			 2024
As used within this chapter, these terms denote the
				following:
(A) "Alternative operator
			 services (AOS)" means any intrastate operator-assisted services, other than
			 inmate operator services (IOS), in which the customer and the end user are
			 totally separate entities. The AOS provider contracts with the customer to
			 provide the AOS; however, the AOS provider does not directly contract with the
			 billed party to provide the services even though it is the billed party who
			 actually pays for the processing of the operator-assisted calls. AOS does not
			 include coin-sent calls.
(B)
			 "Alternative provider" includes a telephone company, including a wireless
			 service provider, a telecommunications carrier, and a provider of
			 internet-protocol enabled services, including voice over internet
			 protocol.
(C) "Basic local exchange
			 service" (BLES) meansthe same as division (A)(1) of section
			 4927.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(D) "Bundle or package of
			 services" meansthe same as  division (A)(2) of
			 section 4927.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(E) "Carrier access"
			 meansthe same as
			 division (A)(3) of section
			 4927.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(F) "Commission" means the
			 public utilities commission of Ohio.
(G) "Competitive eligible telecommunications
			 carrier (CETC)" means a carrier, other than an incumbent local exchange
			 carrier, designated by a state commission as an eligible telecommunications
			 carrier.
(H) "Competitive emergency
			 services telecommunications carrier (CESTC)" means a telephone company that is
			 a 9-1-1 system service provider that with respect to a service area, that was
			 not an incumbent 9-1-1 system service provider on or after the date of
			 enactment of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (1996 act) or its successor or
			 assignee of an incumbent local exchange.
(I) "Competitive local exchange carrier
			 (CLEC)" means, with respect to a service area, any facilities-based and
			 nonfacilities-based local exchange carrier that was not an incumbent local
			 exchange carrier on the date of enactment of the 1996 act or is not an entity
			 that, on or after such date of enactment, became a successor or assignee of an
			 incumbent local exchange carrier.
(J) "Customer" means any person, firm,
			 partnership, corporation, municipality, cooperative organization, government
			 agency, etc., that agrees to purchase a telecommunications service and is
			 responsible for paying charges and for complying with the rules and regulations
			 of the telephone company. For purposes of this chapter, customer means a retail
			 customer except where the term is specifically designated within a rule to mean
			 a wholesale customer of the telephone company.
(K) "Eligible telecommunications carrier
			 (ETC)" means a carrier designated by a state commission as defined in subpart C
			 of FCC 47 C.F.R.
			 54.201.
(L) "Exchange area"
			 meansthe same as division (A) of section
			 4927.12 of the Revised
			 Code.
(M) "Facilities-based CLEC"
			 means, with a respect to a service area, any local exchange carrier that uses
			 facilities it owns, operates, manages or controls to provide basic local
			 exchange services to consumers on a common carrier basis; and that was not an
			 incumbent local exchange carrier on the date of the enactment of the 1996 act.
			 Such carrier may partially or totally own, operate, manage or control such
			 facilities. Carriers not included in such classification are carriers providing
			 service(s) solely by resale of the incumbent local exchange carrier's local
			 exchange services.
(N) "Federal
			 poverty level" meansthe same as division (A)(4) of section
			 4927.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(O) "Flat rate" service means
			 unlimited number of local calls at a fixed charge.
(P) "Incremental cost" means the additional
			 cost (expense) incurred by an ILEC to offer BLES to an additional subscriber,
			 excluding cost recovered through service establishment/installation charges,
			 over existing and/or new facilities.
(Q) "Incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC)"
			 meansthe same as
			 division (A)(5) of section
			 4927.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(R) "Inmate operator services
			 (IOS)" means any intrastate telecommunications service initiated from an inmate
			 telephone, i.e., a telephone instrument set aside by authorities of a secured
			 correctional facility for use by inmates or juvenile offenders.
(S) "Internet protocol-enabled services"
			 meansthe same as division (A)(6) of section
			 4927.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(T) "Large ILEC" means any
			 ILEC serving fifty thousand or more access lines in Ohio.
(U) "Line loss" means
								the same as division (A) of section
			 4927.123 of the Revised
			 Code.
(V) "Local exchange carrier"
			 means
								the same as division (A)(8) of section
			 4927.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(W) "Local service area"
			 means
								
								the same as division (A)(9) of section
			 4927.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(X) "Nonresidential service"
			 means a telecommunication service primarily used for business, professional,
			 institutional or occupational use.
(Y) "Postmark" means a mark, including a
			 date, stamped or imprinted on a bill,
								 piece of mail,
			 or email which serves to record the actual
			 date of its mailing.
(Z) "Preferred carrier freeze" (PCF) means a
			 service that prevents a change in a customer's preferred carrier selection,
			 unless the customer gives consent for such change to the carrier from whom the
			 freeze was requested.
(AA)
			 "Provider of last resort" means an ILEC or successor telephone company that is
			 required to provide basic local exchange service on a reasonable and
			 non-discriminatory basis to all persons or entities in its service area
			 requesting that service as set forth in section
			 4927.11 of the Revised
			 Code.
(BB) "Public safety answering
			 point" (PSAP) means a facility to which 9-1-1 system calls for a specific
			 territory are initially routed for response and where personnel respond to
			 specific requests for emergency service by directly dispatching the appropriate
			 emergency service provider, relaying a message to the appropriate provider, or
			 transferring the call to the appropriate provider.
(CC) "Regulated service" means service under
			 the jurisdiction of the commission.
(DD) "Residential service" means a
			 telecommunications service provided primarily for household use.
(EE) "Small business"
			 means
								
								the same as division (A)(10) of section
			 4927.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(FF) "Tariff" means a
			 schedule of rates, tolls, rentals, charges, classifications, and rules
			 applicable to services and equipment provided by a telephone company that has
			 been filed or posted in such places or in such manner as the commission
			 orders.
(GG) "Telecommunications"
			 means
								the same as division (A)(11) of
			 section 4927.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(HH) "Telecommunications
			 carrier" means
								the same as division (A)(12) of
			 section 4927.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(II) "Telecommunications
			 relay service (TRS)" means intrastate transmission services that provide the
			 ability for an individual who has a hearing or speech impairment to engage in a
			 communication by wire or radio with a hearing individual in a manner that is
			 functionally equivalent to the ability of an individual, who does not have a
			 hearing or speech impairment, to communicate using voice communication services
			 by wire or radio. TRS includes services that enable two-way communication
			 between an individual who uses a telecommunications device for the deaf or
			 other nonvoice terminal device and an individual who does not use such a
			 device.
(JJ) "Telecommunications
			 service" means
								the same as division (A)(13) of
			 section 4927.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(KK) "Telephone company"
			 means
								the same as division (A)(14) of
			 section 4927.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(LL) "Telephone exchange
			 service" means
								
								the same as division (A)(15) of section
			 4927.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(MM) "Telephone toll service"
			 means
								the same as division (A)(16) of
			 section 4927.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(NN) "Traditional service
			 area" means the area in which an ILEC provided basic local exchange service on
			 the date of enactment of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, 110 Stat. 60,
			 47 U.S.C.
			 153, and includes any commission-approved
			 changes to an ILEC's traditional service area after that date.
(OO) "Voice over internet protocol service"
			 (VoIP) means
								the same as division (A)(17) of
			 section 4927.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(PP) "Wireless service
			 means the same as
								 division (A)(19) of section
			 4927.01 of the Revised
			 Code.
(QQ) "Wireless service
			 provider" means the same as  division (A)(20) of
			 section 4927.01 of the Revised
			 Code.