N.M. Admin. Code § 17.11.4.7 - DEFINITIONS

As used in this rule, the following terms have the meanings given here:

A. Access code means a sequence of numbers that, when dialed, connect the caller to the provider of resold long distance telecommunications services or intrastate operator services associated with that sequence.

B. Act means the New Mexico Telecommunications Act, NMSA 1978, 63-9A-1et seq.

C. Aggregator means any person or entity who, in the ordinary course of operations, makes telephones available to the public, transient users of premises, or inmates of an institution, for telephone calls using a provider of intrastate operator services.

D. Certificate of registration means a certificate of registration issued by the commission for the provision of public telecommunications services within the State of New Mexico.

E. Commission means the New Mexico State Corporation Commission.

F. 1996 Act means the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, 47 U.S.C. 151, et seq.

G. Notice of proposed agency action means a legally sufficient notification of action proposed to be taken by the commission.

H. Operator services provider means any provider of any intrastate telecommunications service initiated from an aggregator location that includes, as a component, any automatic or live assistance to a consumer to arrange for billing or completion, or both, of an intrastate telephone call through any method other than:

(1) Automatic completion with billing to the telephone from which the call originated; or

(2) Completion through an access code used by the consumer with billing to an account previously established with the telecommunications service provider by the consumer.

I. Public telecommunications services refers to that definition of the term as set forth in 63-9A-3(L) of the Act.

J. Reseller means an entity that provides resold intrastate long distance telecommunications services within New Mexico.

K. Staff means the staff of the telecommunications department of the commission.

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N.M. Admin. Code § 17.11.4.7

11-15-96; Recompiled 12/31/01