Sec. 64.708  Definitions.

    As used in Secs. 64.703 through 64.707 of this part and Sec. 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) Consumer means a person initiating any interstate telephone call 
using operator services. In collect calling arrangements handled by a 
provider of operator services, both the party on the originating end of 
the call and the party on the terminating end of the call are consumers 
under this definition.
    (e) 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;
    (f) Equal access code means an access code that allows the public to 
obtain an equal access connection to the carrier associated with that 
code;
    (g) 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

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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;
    (h) 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;
    (i) 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]

  Subpart H--Extension of Unsecured Credit for Interstate and Foreign 
        Communications Services to Candidates for Federal Office

    Authority:  Secs. 4, 201, 202, 203, 218, 219, 48 Stat. 1066, 1070, 
1077; 47 U.S.C. 154, 201, 202, 203, 218, 219; sec. 401, 86 Stat. 19; 2 
U.S.C. 451.

    Source:   37 FR 9393 , May 10, 1972, unless otherwise noted.