Sec.  64.1600   Definitions.

   (a) Aggregate information. The term “aggregate information” means collective
   data that relate to a group or category of services or customers, from which
   individual customer identities or characteristics have been removed.

   (b) ANI. The term “ANI” (automatic number identification) refers to the
   delivery of the calling party's billing number by a local exchange carrier
   to any interconnecting carrier for billing or routing purposes, and to the
   subsequent delivery of such number to end users.

   (c) Calling party number. The term “Calling Party Number” refers to the
   subscriber line number or the directory number contained in the calling
   party  number  parameter of the call set-up message associated with an
   interstate call on a Signaling System 7 network.

   (d) Charge number. The term “charge number” refers to the delivery of the
   calling party's billing number in a Signaling System 7 environment by a
   local exchange carrier to any interconnecting carrier for billing or routing
   purposes, and to the subsequent delivery of such number to end users.

   (e) Privacy indicator . The term “Privacy Indicator” refers to information,
   contained in the calling party number parameter of the call set-up message
   associated with an interstate call on an Signaling System 7 network, that
   indicates whether the calling party authorizes presentation of the calling
   party number to the called party.

   (f) Signaling System 7 . The term “Signaling System 7” (SS7) refers to a
   carrier to carrier out-of-band signaling network used for call routing,
   billing and management.

   [ 60 FR 29490 , June 5, 1995]