§  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]