Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 165 - Corporation Commission › Chapter 58 - Facilitation and Provisioning of Payphone Service › Subchapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 165:58-1-4 - Definitions

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this Chapter,
				  shall have the following meaning, unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise:
"Aggregator"
means any person or entity that, in
				  the ordinary course of its operations, makes telephones available to the public
				  or to transient users of its premises for intrastate telephone calls including
				  calls using an operator services provider; i.e., customers of an OSP.
				  Aggregators include, but are not limited to, hotels, motels, hospitals,
				  universities, airports, gas stations and payphone service providers. The term
				  "Aggregator" is not applicable to coinless payphones provided for use only by
				  inmates at state, federal, local and county jails and correctional
				  institutions, as provided for by 17 O.S. (1991) §139.1, but shall include
				  payphones provided for public use in visitation or other areas of such jails
				  and correctional institutions.
"Automatic Number Identification ("ANI")"
means
				  the automatic transmission by the local switching system of the originating
				  telephone number to an interexchange telecommunications carrier or other
				  provider of telecommunications service or the operator of a 911 system.
"Call completion"
means a call that is answered
				  by the called party.
"Certificate of Convenience and Necessity"
as
				  used in this Chapter means an order issued by the Commission authorizing a
				  person, firm, partnership, corporation, cooperative corporation, or other
				  lawful entity to provide telecommunications service in the State of Oklahoma,
				  after the filing of an application and approval by the Commission.
"Commission"
means the Oklahoma Corporation
				  Commission.
"Competitive local exchange carrier ("competitive
				  LEC")"
means, with respect to an area or exchange(s), a
				  telecommunications service provider that is certificated by the Commission to
				  provide local exchange service in such area or exchange(s) within the State of
				  Oklahoma after July 1, 1995.
"Customer trouble report"
means any oral or
				  written report given to the payphone service provider's repair department or
				  contact person by an end-user relating to a defect or difficulty or
				  dissatisfaction with the payphone service provider's instrument and/or
				  service(s).
"End-user"
means a member of the general public
				  who uses a payphone.
"FCC"
means the Federal Communications
				  Commission.
"Incoming call screening"
means a service that
				  identifies the type of incoming calls, such as collect or third-party billed
				  calls, for the purpose of restricting call completion.
"Incumbent local exchange company ("incumbent
				  LEC")"
means, with respect to an area or exchange(s), any
				  telecommunications service provider furnishing local exchange service in such
				  area or exchange(s) within the State of Oklahoma on July 1, 1995, pursuant to
				  its Certificate of Convenience and Necessity or grandfathered authority.
"Interexchange telecommunications carrier
				  ("IXC")"
means any person, firm, partnership, corporation, or other
				  entity, except incumbent LECs, engaged in furnishing regulated interexchange
				  telecommunications services under the jurisdiction of the Commission.
"Operator Service Provider ("OSP")"
means any
				  common carrier, certificated by the Commission that provides intrastate
				  operator services, or any other person or entity certificated by the Commission
				  to provide operator services.
"Operator services"
means the initiation of any
				  intrastate telecommunications service, including but not limited to, services
				  from an aggregator location, which services include, as a component, any
				  automated or live assistance to an end-user for the purpose of arranging
				  billing or completion, or both, of an intrastate telephone call.
"Outgoing call screening"
means a two-digit code
				  passed by the local switching system with an ANI at the beginning of each call
				  that provides information about the originating line.
"Payphone service"
means the provision of
				  telecommunications service by a payphone service provider through the means of
				  a public or semi-public payphone, which, except for calls to public emergency
				  telephone numbers and other numbers as may be designated by state or federal
				  regulation, is utilized by the use of coins or alternative billing mechanisms,
				  and is accessible by members of the general public. For purposes of this
				  Chapter, coinless telephones provided in guest rooms by a hotel/motel are not
				  payphones.
"Payphone service instrument"
means the
				  equipment placed by a payphone service provider to facilitate the provisioning
				  of payphone services to the end-user at a given location.
"Payphone service provider" ("PSP")
means any
				  person, firm, partnership, corporation, cooperative corporation, or other
				  lawful entity providing payphone service as defined in these rules.
"Person"
means any individual, partnership,
				  corporation, association, governmental subdivision, or public or private
				  organization of any character.
"Public interest payphone"
means a
				  Commission-designated payphone instrument which is placed, at a location where
				  there would otherwise not be a payphone, in the interest of making available
				  telecommunications service for public welfare, health and/or safety
				  reasons.
"Public use"
means any item available to, or
				  area accessible by the general public for their use.
"Reseller"
means a common carrier offering
				  interexchange telecommunications services to the public that does not own
				  transmission facilities, but obtains telecommunications services from another
				  carrier for resale to the public for profit.
"Service"
means the offering of
				  telecommunications for a fee directly to the public, or to such classes of
				  users as to be effectively available directly to the public, regardless of the
				  facilities used. Service shall not include the provision of
				  nontelecommunications services, including but not limited to the printing,
				  distribution, or sale of advertising in telephone directories, maintenance of
				  inside wire, customer premises equipment and billing and collection, nor does
				  it include the provision of mobile telephone service, enhanced services and
				  other unregulated services. (Enhanced services means services that are
				  delivered over communications transmission facilities and that use computer
				  processing applications to: (1) change the content, format, code or protocol of
				  transmitted information; (2) provide the customer new or restructured
				  information; or, (3) involve end-user interaction with information stored in a
				  computer.)
"Tariff"
means all or any part of the body of
				  rates, tolls, charges, classifications, and terms and conditions of service
				  relating to regulated services offered, the conditions under which services are
				  offered and the charges therefore, which have been filed with and approved by
				  the Commission.
"Telecommunications"
means the transmission,
				  between or among points specified by the user, of voice or data information of
				  the user's choosing, without change in the form or content of the information
				  as sent and received.
"Telecommunications service provider ("TSP")"
means all authorized providers of local exchange service, whether an incumbent
				  LEC or a competitive LEC.
"Terms of Service"
means rates, charges and
				  terms and conditions for regulated services that a reseller elects to post, in
				  a searchable format, on a publicly available website.
"Zero minus ("0-") call"
means an
				  operator-assisted call where the calling party dials zero ("0") for an operator
				  and waits until an operator comes on the line. The caller then states the
				  telephone number they want to reach and the nature (person-to-person, collect,
				  etc.) of the call.
"Zero plus ("0+") call"
means an
				  operator-assisted call where the calling party dials zero ("0") followed by the
				  number being called, including the area code. This dialing pattern is used
				  mostly for collect, credit card, person-to-person and third-party-billed calls.
				  The caller indicates the type of call after dialing is completed and an
				  operator may come on line.
Added at 14 Ok Reg 21,
				  eff 9-30-96 (emergency); Added at 14 Ok Reg 1261, eff 5-15-97; Amended at 15 Ok
				  Reg 3106, eff 7-15-98; Amended at 16 Ok Reg 2333, eff
				  7-1-99