Goto Section: 64.707 | 64.709 | Table of Contents
FCC 64.708
Revised as of October 2, 2015
Goto Year:2014 |
2016
§ 64.708 Definitions.
As used in § § 64.703 through 64.707 of this part and § 68.318 of this chapter
(47 CFR 64.703-64.707, 68.318):
(a) Access code means a sequence of numbers that, when dialed, connect the
caller to the provider of operator services associated with that sequence;
(b) Aggregator means any person that, in the ordinary course of its
operations, makes telephones available to the public or to transient users
of its premises, for interstate telephone calls using a provider of operator
services;
(c) Call splashing means the transfer of a telephone call from one provider
of operator services to another such provider in such a manner that the
subsequent provider is unable or unwilling to determine the location of the
origination of the call and, because of such inability or unwillingness, is
prevented from billing the call on the basis of such location;
(d) CMRS aggregator means an aggregator that, in the ordinary course of its
operations, makes telephones available to the public or to transient users
of its premises for interstate telephone calls using a provider of CMRS
operator services;
(e) CMRS operator services means operator services provided by means of a
commercial mobile radio service as defined in section 20.3 of this chapter.
(f) Consumer means a person initiating any interstate telephone call using
operator services. In collect calling arrangements handled by a provider of
operator services, the term consumer also includes the party on the
terminating end of the call. For bill-to-third-party calling arrangements
handled by a provider of operator services, the term consumer also includes
the party to be billed for the call if the latter is contacted by the
operator service provider to secure billing approval.
(g) Equal access has the meaning given that term in Appendix B of the
Modification of Final Judgment entered by the United States District Court
on August 24, 1982, in United States v. Western Electric, Civil Action No.
82-0192 (D.D.C. 1982), as amended by the Court in its orders issued prior to
October 17, 1990;
(h) Equal access code means an access code that allows the public to obtain
an equal access connection to the carrier associated with that code;
(i) Operator services means any interstate 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 interstate telephone call through a 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 carrier by the consumer;
(j) Presubscribed provider of operator services means the interstate
provider of operator services to which the consumer is connected when the
consumer places a call using a provider of operator services without dialing
an access code;
(k) Provider of CMRS operator services means a provider of operator services
that provides CMRS operator services;
(l) Provider of operator services means any common carrier that provides
operator services or any other person determined by the Commission to be
providing operator services.
[ 56 FR 18524 , Apr. 23, 1991; 56 FR 25721 , June 5, 1991, as amended at 61 FR 14981 , Apr. 4, 1996; 63 FR 43041 , Aug. 11, 1998; 67 FR 2820 , Jan. 22, 2002]
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Goto Section: 64.707 | 64.709
Goto Year: 2014 |
2016
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