S.D. Admin. R. 20:10:24:01 - Definitions
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.
Notes
General Authority: SDCL 49-31-3, 49-31-5(10)(11)(12)(14).
Law Implemented: SDCL 49-31-3, 49-31-5.
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