South Dakota Administrative Rules › Title 20 - PUBLIC SAFETY › Article 20:10 - PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION › Chapter 20:10:24 - Interexchange carrier and classification rules › Section 20:10:24:01 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 51, page 10, July 15, 2024
Terms defined in SDCL
				  49-31-1 have the same meaning in
				  this chapter. In addition, terms used in this chapter and SDCL chapter 49-31
				  mean:
(1) "Access charges," the amount
				one local exchange telecommunications company charges an interexchange carrier
				for use of telecommunications facilities to originate or terminate calls within
				its service area;
(2) "Alternative
				operator service provider (AOS)," a corporation, company, partnership, person,
				or any entity, other than the serving local exchange or interexchange carrier,
				providing a connection by contract to intrastate or interstate long distance or
				to local services from such places as hotels, motels, hospitals, campuses, and
				customer-owned pay telephones;
(3)
				"Call blocking," denying the completion of a call which would allow the caller
				to reach a long distance telephone company from an AOS company;
(4) "Customer," an individual, partnership,
				association, joint-stock company, trust, corporation, governmental entity, or
				any other entity which subscribes to telecommunications services, including
				interexchange carriers and end users;
(5) "Deregulation," partial or total
				exemption from regulation by the commission of a service, rate, product, or
				practice;
(6) "End user," a person
				or entity, except a telecommunications company, which utilizes
				telecommunications services for its own use;
(7) "Extended area service (EAS)," a
				telecommunications service that expands a local calling area to include another
				local exchange area;
(8)
				"Interexchange carrier," a telecommunications company which renders
				telecommunications service between points which are not in the same local
				calling area established in the tariff of a local exchange carrier;
(9) "Interstate access," the ability of
				interexchange carriers to utilize the facilities of a local exchange carrier
				for the origination and termination of interexchange interstate interLATA
				calls;
(10) "Intrastate access,"
				the ability of a telecommunications company to utilize the facilities of the
				local exchange carrier for the origination and termination of intrastate
				interexchange calls;
(11)
				"Intrastate telecommunications services," telecommunications services that are
				functionally intrastate, with points of origination and termination within
				South Dakota, regardless of the specific routing of the affected
				traffic;
(12) "Local calling area,"
				a geographical area, including extended area service (EAS) points as defined in
				the telephone company's local exchange service tariff, in which an end user may
				complete a call without incurring long distance charges;
(13) "Resale," the subscription to local or
				long distance telecommunications services and facilities by an entity which
				then offers them for sale to others with or without enhancements;
(14) "Reseller," a person or entity reselling
				local or long distance telecommunications services.
General Authority:
SDCL
					 49-31-3,
					 49-31-5(10)(11)(12)(14).
Law Implemented:
SDCL
					 49-31-3,
					 49-31-5.