South Dakota Administrative Rules › Title 20 - PUBLIC SAFETY › Article 20:10 - PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION › Chapter 20:10:29 - Telecommunications switched access charges › Section 20:10:29:01 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 51, page 10, July 15, 2024
Terms defined in SDCL 49-31-1 have the same meaning when used
				  in this chapter. In addition, terms used in this chapter mean:
(1) "Access minutes," usage of exchange
				facilities in intrastate service for the purpose of calculating chargeable
				usage;
(2) "Access services,"
				services and facilities provided for the origination or termination of
				intrastate telecommunications;
(3)
				"Annual revenue requirements," the sum of the return component and the expense
				component;
(4) "Big three
				expenses," the combined expense groups composed of the following:
				plant-specific operations expense, accounts 6110, 6120, 6210, 6220, 6230, 6310,
				and 6410; plant-nonspecific operations expenses, accounts 6510, 6530, and 6540;
				and customer operations expenses, accounts 6610 and 6620;
(5) "Big three expense factors," the ratios
				of the sum of big three expenses apportioned to each element or category to the
				combined big three expenses;
(6)
				"Cable and wire facilities," all equipment or facilities described as cable and
				wire facilities in chapter 20:10:28 and included in account 2410;
(7) "Carrier cable and wire facilities," all
				cable and wire facilities that are not subscriber line cable and wire
				facilities;
(8) "Carrier's
				carrier," a telecommunications company which provides access services or
				facilities to another telecommunications company which in turn uses those
				facilities to provide telecommunications services to the public;
(9) "Central office equipment," all equipment
				or facilities described as central office equipment in the separations
				procedures and included in accounts 2210, 2220, and 2230;
(10) "Channel termination," the
				communications path between customer-designated premises or between a
				customer-designated premises and the serving wire center of that premises
				provided as a part of private line transport service;
(11) "Corporate operations expenses,"
				executive and planning expenses, account 6710, and general and administrative
				expenses, account 6720;
(12)
				"Customer operations expenses," marketing and services expenses in accounts
				6610 and 6620, respectively;
(13)
				"Dedicated signaling transport," transport of out-of-band signaling information
				between an interexchange carrier or other person's common channel signaling
				network and a carrier's carrier's signaling transport point on facilities
				dedicated to the use of a single customer;
(14) "Direct expenses," expenses attributable
				to a particular category or categories of tangible investment described in
				§§
									20:10:29:18 to
				20:10:29:31, inclusive, including:
				plant-specific operations expenses in accounts 6110, 6120, 6210, 6220, 6230,
				6310, and 6410 and plant-nonspecific operations expenses in accounts 6510,
				6530, 6540, and 6560;
(15)
				"Direct-trunked transport," transport on circuits dedicated to the use of a
				single interexchange carrier or other person, without switching at the tandem,
				between the serving wire center and the end office or between two
				customer-designated carrier's carrier offices;
(16) "DS1," a high-capacity channel for the
				transmission of isochronous serial digital data at a rate of 1.544 or 3.152
				megabytes per second;
(17) "DS3," a
				high-capacity channel for the transmission of isochronous serial digital data
				at a rate of 44.736 megabytes per second;
(18) "End office," the telecommunications
				company office from which the end user receives exchange service;
(19) "Entrance facilities," transport from
				the interexchange carrier or other person's point of demarcation to the serving
				wire center;
(20) "Expanded
				interconnection," the local exchange company offers expanded
				interconnection-collocation service which provides for wire center
				interconnection of the carrier's carrier's switched access DS1 or DS3 capacity
				services to interconnector-provided or interconnector-designated transmission
				equipment;
(21) "Expense
				component," the total expenses and income charges for an annual period that are
				attributable to a particular element or category;
(22) "Expenses," allowable intrastate
				expenses and income charges apportioned to intrastate pursuant to 47 C.F.R.
				Part 36 (October 1, 1993);
(23)
				"General support facilities," buildings, land, vehicles, aircraft, work
				equipment, furniture, office equipment, and general purpose computers as
				described in chapter 20:10:28 and included in account 2110;
(24) "Hub," a carrier's carrier's designated
				wire center at which bridging, multiplexing, or connections to other services
				are performed;
(25) "Information
				origination/termination equipment," equipment or facilities that are described
				as information origination/termination equipment in chapter 20:10:28 and in
				account 2310 except information origination/termination equipment used by
				telecommunications companies in their own operations;
(26) "Interexchange category," all intrastate
				interexchange services and facilities specifically attributable to such service
				provided directly to end users by the telecommunications company and not
				described as access services in this chapter;
(27) "Interoffice charges," charges for the
				transmission facilities between the serving wire centers associated with two
				customer-designated premises, between a serving wire center associated with a
				customer-designated premises and a carrier's carrier's hub, or between two
				carrier's carrier's hubs;
(28)
				"Line," transmission media, such as radio, satellite, wire, cable, and fiber
				optic means of transmission;
(29)
				"Net investment," allowable original cost investment in accounts 2001 to 2003,
				inclusive, 1220, and 1402 that has been apportioned to intrastate services from
				which depreciation, amortization, and other reserves attributable to the
				investment that has been apportioned to intrastate have been subtracted and to
				which working capital that is attributable to intrastate has been
				added;
(30) "Operating taxes," all
				taxes in account 7200;
(31) "Point
				of demarcation," a point at or near a customer-designated premises at which the
				carrier's carrier's responsibility for the provision of access service
				ends;
(32) "Private line," a line
				that is used exclusively for an interexchange service other than message toll
				service (MTS), wide area telephone service (WATS), or an MTS-WATS equivalent
				service, including a line that is used at the closed end of a foreign exchange,
				WATS, or common control switching service (CCSA), or any service that is
				substantially equivalent to a CCSA service;
(33) "Public telephone," a telephone provided
				by a telecommunications company through which an end user may originate
				intrastate telecommunications which are paid for with coins or by credit card,
				collect, or third number billing;
(34) "Return component," net investment
				attributable to a particular element or category multiplied by the authorized
				rate of return;
(35) "Serving wire
				center," a central office designated by the carrier's carrier to serve the
				geographic area in which the interexchange carrier or other person's point of
				demarcation is located;
(36)
				"Subscriber line cable and wire facilities," all lines or trunks on the
				subscriber side of a class 5 (end office) switch, including lines or trunks
				that do not terminate in such a switch, except lines or trunks that connect an
				interexchange carrier;
(37)
				"Tandem-switched transport," transport of traffic that is switched at a tandem
				switch between the serving wire center and the end office or between a
				carrier's carrier's office containing the tandem switching equipment, as
				described in subdivision 20:10:28:01(66), and the end office;
(38) "Trunk," transmission media, such as
				radio, satellite, wire, cable, and fiber optic means of transmission;
(39) "Voice grade," a channel for the
				transmission of analog signals within an approximate bandwidth of 300 to 3,000
				hertz;
(40) "Wide area telephone
				service (WATS) access line," a line or trunk that is used exclusively for WATS
				service.
General Authority:
SDCL 49-1-11, 49-31-5,
					 49-31-18.
Law Implemented:
SDCL
					 49-31-18.
Definitions,
					 47 C.F.R. §
												69.2
					 (1993).