North Carolina Administrative Code › Title 04 - COMMERCE › Chapter 11 - UTILITIES COMMISSION › Chapter 13 › Section 11 R13-01 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 2, July 15, 2024
(a) Access Line
				Provider (ALP). The provider of PSP access lines or PSP trunks for PSP
				instruments as authorized by
				G.S.
				62-110(c) or as otherwise
				provided by Commission rule or the North Carolina General Statutes.
(b) Automated Collect Call. A call placed and
				billed to the called telephone number without the assistance or intervention of
				a human operator.
(c) Confinement
				Facility. Any local, state, or federal facility, including juvenile facilities,
				for the confinement of criminals and persons accused or convicted of
				crimes.
(d) Cut-Off Switch or Key.
				An item of terminal equipment which enables a PSP instrument to be easily
				connected or disconnected from the exchange network. A cut-off switch or key
				does not have the capability of switching a given PSP instrument from one PSP
				access line or PSP trunk to another. Cut-off switches or keys may be used only
				in confinement facilities and only at the request of the administration of the
				confinement facility.
(e) End User.
				The person initiating a call from a pay telephone instrument.
(f) Facsimile. The device or process by which
				information on documents is converted to an electronic format, conveyed over
				the telephone network, and reconverted into documentary form. A facsimile
				device which does not incorporate a telephone is a "voiceless-facsimile
				device."
(g) Line Concentrator. An
				item of registered terminal equipment which enables two or more PSP instruments
				to obtain access, through manual or automatic switching, to the same PSP trunk
				but denies connection to the same trunk at the same time. Such equipment may be
				used only in confinement facilities and only with the express written consent
				of the administration of the confinement facility.
(h) Pay Telephone Service. The provision of
				coin, coinless, or key-operated telephone service utilizing a PSP
				instrument.
(i) Payphone Service
				Provider (PSP). The subscriber to a PSP access line or PSP trunk who offers
				telephone service to the public by means of a coin, coinless, or key-operated
				PSP instrument.
(j) PSP Instrument.
				A coin, coinless, or key-operated telephone or facsimile device, other than a
				voiceless-facsimile device, capable of originating and receiving voice
				telephone calls.
(k) PSP Access
				Line. The exchange access facility furnished by the access line provider which
				is used to connect PSP instruments to the network when a line concentrator is
				not utilized.
(l) PSP Trunk. The
				exchange access facility furnished by the access line provider which is
				required in lieu of a PSP access line when the PSP utilizes a line concentrator
				between the PSP instrument and the exchange network as allowed by Rule
				R13-6.
(m) Sent-Paid Call. A call
				paid for at the time and place of origination with cash.
NCUC Docket No. P-100,
				  Sub 84, 3/28/86; 11/17/87; 2/8/88; 2/11/88; 10/11/88; 6/14/89; 6/16/89;
				  8/31/89; 1/12/90; 3/29/90; 6/9/93; NCUC Docket No. P-100, Sub 84a,
				  10/7/97.