New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 17 - PUBLIC UTILITIES AND UTILITY SERVICES › Chapter 11 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS › Part 18 - INTERCONNECTION FACILITIES AND UNBUNDLED NETWORK ELEMENTS › Section 17.11.18.7 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
As used in this rule:
A. bill-and-keep arrangement means neither of
				two interconnecting LECs charges the other for the transport and termination of
				local calls that originate on the other LEC's network;
B. carrier means any person that furnishes
				telecommunications service to the public subject to the jurisdiction of the
				commission, regardless of the facilities used and regardless of whether the
				person relies in part or entirely on another carrier's facilities;
C. competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC)
				means a carrier that provides local exchange and exchange access service in its
				service area and is not an ILEC;
D.
				element includes an ILEC's UNEs, ILEC-provided collocation and other methods of
				obtaining interconnection and access to UNEs, and an ILEC's transport and
				termination of local traffic originated by an interconnecting LEC whenever
				explicit reciprocal compensation charges are established;
E. embedded costs means costs an ILEC
				incurred in the past that are recorded in the ILEC's books of
				accounts;
F. forward-looking common
				costs means economic costs efficiently incurred in providing a group of UNEs or
				services (which may include all UNEs or services provided by the ILEC) that
				cannot be attributed directly to individual UNEs or services;
G. forward-looking cost of capital means the
				cost of obtaining debt and equity financing in the capital markets;
H. incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC)
				means a person, or an affiliate of a person, that was authorized to provide
				local exchange and exchange access service in New Mexico on February 8, 1996 or
				a successor or assignee of such person or affiliate; a telecommunications
				provider will also be treated as an ILEC if the federal communications
				commission determines that such provider (or class or category of provider)
				shall be treated as an ILEC pursuant to
				47 U.S.C. Section
				251(h)(2);
I. interconnection means the linking of two
				networks for the mutual exchange of traffic, but does not include the transport
				and termination of traffic;
J.
				local call means a local exchange service call for which the originating
				location (defined as the location of the NID serving the originating end user)
				and the terminating location (defined as the location of the NID serving the
				terminating end user) are located within the local calling area defined for the
				originating end user, including all mandatory emergency alert system ("EAS")
				exchanges and any optional EAS exchanges to which the originating end user
				subscribes;
K. local exchange
				carrier (LEC) means a provider of local exchange and exchange access service
				and includes both CLECs and ILECs;
L. network interface device (NID) means the
				cross-connect device used to connect loop facilities to intra-premises cabling
				or inside wiring at an end user's premises;
M. opportunity costs means the revenues the
				ILEC would have received for the sale of telecommunications services in the
				absence of competition from telecommunications carriers that purchase
				UNEs;
N. originating LEC means the
				LEC that serves the end user who originates a local call;
O. physical collocation has the meaning given
				in
				47 C.F.R. Section
				51.5;
P. retailing costs include the costs of
				marketing, billing, collection and other functions associated with offering
				retail telecommunications services to subscribers who are not
				telecommunications carriers;
Q.
				rural local exchange carrier (rural LEC) has the meaning given in
				47
				U.S.C. Section 153(37) for
				"rural telephone company";
R.
				terminating LEC means the LEC that serves the end user who receives a local
				call;
S. total element long run
				incremental cost (TELRIC) (of a UNE) means the forward-looking cost over the
				long run of the total quantity of facilities and functions directly
				attributable to, or reasonably identifiable as incremental to, a UNE, assuming
				the ILEC's provision of other UNEs;
T. unbundled network element (UNE) means a
				facility or equipment used in the provision of a telecommunications service
				that an ILEC must provide to any requesting telecommunications carrier on an
				unbundled basis, pursuant to Section 251(c)(3) of the Telecommunications Act of
				1996, Pub. L. No.
				104-104, 110 Stat. 56 (1996); the term includes,
				but is not limited to, features, functions and capabilities that are provided
				by means of such facility or equipment, including but not limited to,
				subscriber numbers, databases, signaling systems, and information sufficient
				for billing and collection or used in the transmission, routing, or other
				provision of a telecommunications service;
U. virtual collocation has the meaning given
				in
				47 C.F.R. Section
				51.5.