Washington Administrative Code › Title 480 - Utilities and Transportation Commission › Chapter 480-123 - Universal service › Section 480-123-020 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
As used in this chapter:
"Applicant" means any person applying to an eligible
				telecommunications carrier for new service or reconnection of discontinued
				service.
"Broadband service" means any service providing advanced
				telecommunications capability, including internet access and access to high
				quality voice, data, graphics or video. To be considered advanced
				telecommunications, broadband must be at, or above, a minimum download speed
				and a minimum upload speed. The commission will establish a minimum upload
				speed standard and a minimum download speed standard for broadband service to
				be considered advanced telecommunications. The commission will take federal and
				state standards into consideration when it sets the standard. Any broadband
				standards that are established in these rules or by commission order may be met
				by the communications provider or its affiliate or a combination of both. The
				affiliate cannot be receiving support from this program.
"Communications provider" or "provider" means a company
				providing communications service that assigns a working telephone number to a
				final consumer for intrastate wireline or wireless communications services or
				interconnected voice over internet protocol service, and includes local
				exchange carriers.
"Communications services" includes telecommunications services
				and information services and any combination of these services.
"Eligible telecommunications carrier" and "ETC" means a carrier
				designated by the commission as eligible to receive support from federal
				universal service mechanisms in exchange for providing services supported by
				federal universal service mechanisms.
"Facilities" means for the purpose of WAC
				480-123-030(1)(b)
				 any physical components of the
				telecommunications network that are used in the transmission or routing of the
				services that are supported by federal universal service mechanisms.
".shp format" means the format used for creating and storing
				digital maps composed of shape files capable of being opened by the computer
				application ArcGIST.
"Program" means the state universal communications services
				program created in
				RCW
				80.36.650.
"Service area" means all of the designated exchanges served by
				a company in the state.
"Service outage" means a significant degradation in the ability
				of an end user to establish and maintain a channel of voice communications as a
				result of failure or degradation in the performance of a communications
				provider's network.
"Substantive" means sufficiently detailed and technically
				specific to permit the commission to evaluate whether federal universal service
				support has had, or will have, benefits for customers. For example, information
				about investments and expenses that will provide, increase, or maintain service
				quality, signal coverage, or network capacity, and information about the number
				of customers that benefit, and how they will benefit is sufficient to enable
				evaluation.
"Telecommunications" has the same meaning as defined in
				47 U.S.C. Sec.
				153(43).
"Unsworn statement" means a statement made under penalty of
				perjury, as set forth in
				RCW
				5.50.050.
Statutory Authority:
				  RCW
				  80.01.040,
				  80.04.160, 80.36.600, and
				  80.36.610. 06-14-051 (Docket No.
				  UT-053021, General Order No. R-534), § 480-123-020, filed 6/28/06,
				  effective 7/29/06.