Wisconsin Administrative Code › Public Service Commission › Chapter PSC 168 - Telecommunications Resellers And Resale › Section PSC 168.02 - Definitions

Current through June 24, 2024
(1) "Alternative telecommunications utility"
			 has the meaning given in s.
			 196.01(1d),
			 Stats.
(2) "Alternative
			 telecommunications utility reseller" means that category of telecommunications
			 provider referred to in s.
			 196.01(1d)
			 (c), Stats.
(3) "Collect call" means a call paid for by
			 the party receiving the call where the receiving party does not have a standing
			 arrangement for reversed charge calling.
(4) "Control of transmission facilities"
			 includes leasing transmission facilities, but does not include the use of
			 transmission facilities obtained pursuant to tariff filed under any provision
			 of ch. 196, Stats., or an agreement under
			 47
			 USC 252 approved by the commission.
Note
"Dark fiber" leases or rental agreements that
				identify specific facilities constitute control of transmission facilities. In
				contrast, however, a long-term subscription to, or putative "lease" of, a
				transmission
service
, e.g., a "lease" of DS-3 transmission
				capacity, does not constitute control of transmission facilities, even though
				the nature of the service is largely defined by reference to the principal
				facility involved.
(5)
			 "Customer dialed calling card call" means a call which is dialed by the
			 customer, and for which the customer enters a calling card number directly,
			 without operator intervention.
(6)
			 "Holding company" has the meaning given in s.
			 196.795(1)
			 (h), Stats., and includes for purposes of
			 this chapter only any company which owns, operates, manages or controls a
			 telecommunications utility.
(7)
			 "Holding company system" has the meaning given in s.
			 196.795(1)
			 (i), Stats., and includes for purposes of
			 this chapter only a telecommunications utility as a public utility.
(8) "Operator assisted calling card call"
			 means a call which is dialed by the customer and paid for with a calling card,
			 but which requires operator intervention.
(9) "Pay telephone service provider" means a
			 person who owns or leases a pay telephone located on property owned or leased
			 by that person and telecommunications providers furnishing customer-owned,
			 coin-operated telephones, also commonly known as "COCOTs" or COCOT providers,
			 but does not include telecommunications utilities or telecommunications
			 carriers.
(10) "Person to person
			 call" means a call in which the calling party requests to speak to a particular
			 person, and the call is put through only if that person comes to the
			 telephone.
(11) "Telecommunications
			 provider" has the meaning given in s.
			 196.01(8p),
			 Stats.
(12) "Telecommunications
			 reseller" or "reseller" means a telecommunications provider that resells
			 message or wide-area telecommunications services or other telecommunications
			 services approved for resale pursuant to this chapter or commission order, and
			 includes the following:
(a) Alternative
			 telecommunications utility resellers.
(b) Alternative telecommunications utilities
			 authorized to engage in resale.
(c)
			 Pay telephone service providers, as defined in sub. (9), that provide operator
			 services, resale of telecommunications services, or both.
(d) For purposes of s.
			 PSC
			 168.03 only, telecommunications carriers and
			 telecommunications utilities certificated pursuant to s.
			 196.50(2),
			 Stats., when engaged in reselling services of another telecommunications
			 provider.