476.96 - DEFINITIONS.

        476.96  DEFINITIONS.         As used in section 476.95, this section, and sections 476.97      through 476.102, unless the context otherwise requires:         1.  "Basic communications service" includes at a minimum,      basic local telephone service, switched access, 911 and E-911      services, and dual party relay service.  The board is authorized to      classify by rule at any time, any other two-way switched      communications services as basic communications services consistent      with community expectations and the public interest.         2.  "Basic local telephone service" means the provision of      dial tone access and usage, for the transmission of two-way switched      communications within a local exchange area, including, but not      limited to, the following:         a.  Residence service and business services, including flat      rate or local measured service, private branch exchange trunks, trunk      type hunting services, direct inward dialing, and the network access      portion of central office switched exchange service.         b.  Extended area service.         c.  Touch tone service when provided separately.         d.  Call tracing.         e.  Calling number blocking on either a per call or a per line      basis.         f.  Local exchange white pages directories.         g.  Installation and repair of local network access.         h.  Local operator services, excluding directory assistance.         i.  Toll service blocking and 1-900 and 1-976 access blocking.         3.  "Competitive local exchange service provider" means any      person, including a municipal utility, that provides local exchange      services, other than a local exchange carrier or a nonrate-regulated      wireline provider of local exchange services under an authorized      certificate of public convenience and necessity within a specific      geographic area described in maps filed with and approved by the      board as of September 30, 1992.         4.  "Interim number portability" means one or more mechanisms      by which a local exchange customer at a particular location may      change the customer's local exchange services provider without any      change in the local exchange customer's telephone number, while      experiencing as little loss of functionality as is feasible using      available technology.         5.  "Local exchange carrier" means any person that was the      incumbent and historical rate-regulated wireline provider of local      exchange services or any successor to such person that provides local      exchange services under an authorized certificate of public      convenience and necessity within a specific geographic area described      in maps filed with and approved by the board as of September 30,      1992.         6.  "Nonbasic communications services" means all      communications services subject to the board's jurisdiction which are      not deemed either by statute or by rule to be basic communications      services, including any service offered by the local exchange carrier      for the first time after July 1, 1995.  A service is not considered      new if it constitutes the bundling, unbundling, or repricing of an      already existing service.  Consistent with community expectations and      the public interest, the board may reclassify by rule as nonbasic      those two-way switched communications services previously classified      by rule as basic.         7.  "Provider number portability" means the capability of a      local exchange customer to change the customer's local exchange      services provider at the customer's same location without any change      in the local exchange customer's telephone number, while preserving      the full range of functionality that the customer currently      experiences.  "Provider number portability" includes the equal      availability of information concerning the local exchange provider      serving the number to all carriers, and the ability to deliver      traffic directly to that provider without having first to route      traffic to the local exchange carrier or otherwise use the services,      facilities, or capabilities of the local exchange carrier to complete      the call, and without the dialing of additional digits or access      codes.  
         Section History: Recent Form
         95 Acts, ch 199, §7; 97 Acts, ch 81, §4, 6         Referred to in § 34A.2, 423.3, 476.1B, 476.29, 476.55, 476.97,      476.101, 476.102