Pennsylvania Code › Title 52 - PUBLIC UTILITIES › Part I - Public Utility Commission › Subpart C - Fixed Service Utilities › Chapter 63 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE › Subchapter N - LOCAL SERVICE PROVIDER ABANDONMENT PROCESS › Section 63.302 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this
						subchapter, have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates
						otherwise:
Abandon
-To cease providing local service
						to existing customers. The term does not include discontinuance as a result of
						a customer's request or a temporary change in the provision of service that may
						arise from maintenance, repair or failure of a LSP's equipment or
						facilities.
Abandoning LSP
-A LSP that seeks to
						abandon providing local service to existing customers.
Acquiring LSP
-A LSP that voluntarily
						undertakes to provide local service to customers of the abandoning LSP after
						the abandoning LSP is permitted to alter or abandon providing local
						service.
CSR-Customer service
						record
-Documentation indicating the customer's name, address, contact
						telephone number, quantity of lines, services, features and other information
						associated with a customer account.
Customer
-The end-user recipient of
						telecommunications service provided by an LSP.
Exit date
-The date upon which an
						abandoning LSP intends to cease providing telecommunications service.
Full facilities
-The term used when the
						LSP has all the services and equipment (that is, central office switches, local
						loops, trunk lines, and the like) necessary to provide telephonic
						communications between telephones connected to it or to other central
						offices.
Interconnection agreement
-An agreement
						to interconnect directly or indirectly with the facilities and equipment of
						other telecommunications carriers.
LSP-Local service provider
-A company,
						such as a local exchange carrier (LEC), that provides local service by resale,
						by unbundled network elements (with or without platform) or through its own
						facilities, or by a combination of these methods of providing local service to
						a customer.
Local exchange carrier
-A legal entity
						that is authorized to do business in this Commonwealth by the Department of
						State and has been certificated by the Commission to offer local exchange
						telecommunications service within a specified service area. LECs encompass both
						local exchange telecommunications companies and competitive telecommunications
						carriers.
Local service
-Telecommunications service
						within a customer's local calling area.
(i) The term includes the customer's local
					 calling plan, dial tone line, touch-tone and directory assistance calls allowed
					 without additional charge.
(ii) The
					 term also includes services covered by the Federal Line Cost Charge,
					 Pennsylvania Relay Surcharge, Federal Universal Service Fund Surcharge, Local
					 Number Portability Surcharge, Public Safety Emergency Telephone Act (9-1-1) Fee
					 and applicable Federal and State taxes.
Local service reseller
-A LSP that
						resells another company's wholesale telecommunications services to provide
						local service to customers.
Local telecommunications
						service
-Telecommunications service within a customer's local calling
						area, including:
(i) The customer's
					 local calling plan, dial tone line, touch-tone and directory assistance calls
					 allowed without additional charge.
(ii) Services covered by the Federal line
					 cost charge, Pennsylvania relay surcharge, Federal universal service fund
					 surcharge, local number portability surcharge, Public Safety Emergency
					 Telephone Act (9-1-1) fee and applicable Federal and State taxes.
NANPA-North American Numbering Plan
						Administration
-The organization that holds overall responsibility for
						the neutral administration of North American telephone numbering resources,
						subject to directives from regulatory authorities in the countries that share
						the North American telephone numbering resources. NANPA's responsibilities
						include assignment of telephone numbering resources, and, in the United States
						and its territories, coordination of area code relief planning and collection
						of utilization and forecast data.
NSP-Network service provider
-A
						telecommunications provider that interacts with LSPs and provides the
						facilities and equipment components needed to make up a customer's
						telecommunications service. A NSP may be referred to as an underlying carrier,
						and may also be a LSP.
Preferred carrier freeze
-A designation
						elected by a customer that restricts a third party's ability to change a
						customer's choice of preferred telecommunication service provider.
Resale
-The term used when a LSP does not
						have its own facilities, but purchases telecommunications services at wholesale
						rates to sell to the public. Typically, the telecommunications services are
						purchased from a NSP.
Telecommunications service
-The offering
						of the transmission of messages or communications for a fee to the
						public.
UNE-Unbundled network element
-Various
						physical and functional parts of a NSP's infrastructure that may be leased to
						another LSP. These components include things such as local switching, local
						loops, interoffice transmission facilities, signaling and call-related
						databases, operator services, directory assistance, and the like.
UNE-L-Local Loop
-The telephone line
						(copper or fiber), that runs from the local telephone company to a customer's
						premise. A LSP may own a local switch and lease the local loop from the
						NSP.
UNE-P-UNE-Platform
-A combination of
						unbundled network elements that facilitates end-to-end service delivery. A
						typical arrangement includes at least a local loop and switching.
Wholesale customer
-A LSP that provides
						local service by resale or by unbundled network elements (with or without
						platform).
The provisions of this § 63.302 amended under
						  66 Pa.C.S. §
														3019(b)(2) and
						  (3).