Oregon Administrative Rules › Chapter 860 - PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION › Division 100 - OREGON UNIVERSAL SERVICE FUND (OUSF) › Section 860-100-0005 - Definitions for the Oregon Universal Service Fund

Current through Register Vol. 63, No. 7, July 1, 2024
For the purpose of this Division:
(1) "Basic telephone service" has the same
			 meaning as provided in OAR 860-032-0190.
(2) "Certificate of Authority" means a
			 certificate of authority to provide intrastate telecommunications service on a
			 for-hire basis that may be issued by the Commission under ORS
			 759.020.
(3) "Commercial mobile radio service
			 provider" means a person that provides commercial mobile radio
			 service.
(4) "Commercial mobile
			 radio service" has the meaning given that term in ORS
			 759.400.
(5) "Competitive provider" means a
			 competitive telecommunications provider as defined in ORS
			 759.005(1),
			 who provides services authorized pursuant to ORS
			 759.020.
(6) "Cooperative" means a cooperative
			 corporation or association, which provides local exchange telecommunications
			 service within its own exchanges, which is organized under ORS Chapter 62, and
			 which is certified under ORS
			 759.025(2).
(7) "Exchange" has the same meaning as
			 provided in OAR 860-032-0012.
(8)
			 "Gross retail intrastate revenue" means the total amount derived from
			 intrastate retail telecommunications services sold in Oregon. Gross revenue as
			 defined by generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) is the total amount
			 of sales recognized on the income statement in the period when realized and
			 earned- not necessarily when cash is received. "Gross retail intrastate
			 revenue" includes all billable revenue earned from a final customer.
(9) "Interconnected voice over internet
			 protocol service provider" or "interconnected VoIP service provider" means a
			 person that provides interconnected voice over internet protocol
			 services.
(10) "Interconnected voice
			 over internet protocol service" or "interconnected VoIP service" has the
			 meaning given the term "interconnected voice over internet protocol service" in
			 ORS
			 759.400. For purposes
			 of contribution to the OUS Fund nomadic interconnected VoIP providers are
			 responsible for identifying intrastate revenues attributable to Oregon
			 consistent with the safe harbor and intrastate revenue allocation provisions of
			 OR Laws 2020 Ch. 17, Section 2.
(11) "Local exchange service" means local
			 exchange telecommunications service as defined in ORS
			 759.005(3).
			 Local exchange service includes "shared service."
(12) "Loop facilities" consists of the
			 cables, poles, conduit, microwave, or carrier equipment used by a
			 telecommunication service provider to connect a customer's premise to a central
			 office.
(13) "OUSF Board" means the
			 advisory board selected by the Commission to provide advice on the
			 administration of the OUS Fund.
(14) "OUS Administrator" means the person
			 selected by the Commission to administer the OUS Fund.
(15) "OUS Fund" means the Oregon Universal
			 Service Fund.
(16) "OUS retail
			 telecommunications service" includes retail telecommunications service, retail
			 commercial mobile radio service and retail interconnected VoIP
			 service.
(17) "Pay telephone" means
			 a telephone instrument, generally placed in public areas, for transient use on
			 a pay-per-call basis. Pay telephone instruments may be coin operated, noncoin
			 operated, prepay, postpay, central office controlled, instrument controlled,
			 provided by local exchange carriers, or provided by other persons or
			 entities.
(18) "Private
			 telecommunications network" means a system, including the construction,
			 maintenance, or operation of the system, for the provision of a service or any
			 portion of a service, by a person for the exclusive use of that person and not
			 for resale, directly or indirectly. Private telecommunications network includes
			 services provided by the State of Oregon pursuant to ORS
			 190.240 and
			 283.140.
(19) "Retail telecommunications service" has
			 the same meaning as provided in ORS
			 759.400.
(20) "Shared service" means shared
			 telecommunications service as defined in ORS
			 759.005(6)
			 and:
(a) The provision of telecommunications
			 and information management services and equipment:
(A) To a user group comprised of one person
			 or association served by a single telecommunications system;
(B) Located in a single building or in
			 several buildings on contiguous property;
(C) By a commercial shared service provider
			 or by a users' association;
(D)
			 Through privately owned customer premises equipment and associated data
			 processing and information management services; and