§ 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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