Goto Section: 20.1 | 20.5 | Table of Contents
FCC 20.3
Revised as of October 1, 2009
Goto Year:2008 |
2010
§ 20.3 Definitions.
Appropriate local emergency authority. An emergency answering point
that has not been officially designated as a Public Safety Answering
Point (PSAP), but has the capability of receiving 911 calls and either
dispatching emergency services personnel or, if necessary, relaying the
call to another emergency service provider. An appropriate local
emergency authority may include, but is not limited, to an existing
local law enforcement authority, such as the police, county sheriff,
local emergency medical services provider, or fire department.
Automatic Number Identification (ANI). A system that identifies the
billing account for a call. For 911 systems, the ANI identifies the
calling party and may be used as a call back number.
Automatic Roaming . With automatic roaming, under a pre-existing
contractual agreement between a subscriber's home carrier and a host
carrier, a roaming subscriber is able to originate or terminate a call
in the host carrier's service area without taking any special actions.
Commercial mobile radio service. A mobile service that is:
(a)(1) provided for profit, i.e. , with the intent of receiving
compensation or monetary gain;
(2) An interconnected service; and
(3) Available to the public, or to such classes of eligible users as to
be effectively available to a substantial portion of the public; or
(b) The functional equivalent of such a mobile service described in
paragraph (a) of this section.
Designated PSAP. The Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP) designated by
the local or state entity that has the authority and responsibility to
designate the PSAP to receive wireless 911 calls.
Incumbent Wide Area SMR Licensees. Licensees who have obtained extended
implementation authorizations in the 800 MHz or 900 MHz service, either
by waiver or under Section 90.629 of these rules, and who offer
real-time, two-way voice service that is interconnected with the public
switched network.
Handset-based location technology. A method of providing the location
of wireless 911 callers that requires the use of special
location-determining hardware and/or software in a portable or mobile
phone. Handset-based location technology may also employ additional
location-determining hardware and/or software in the CMRS network
and/or another fixed infrastructure.
Home Carrier . For automatic roaming, a home carrier is the
facilities-based CMRS carrier with which a subscriber has a direct
contractual relationship. A home carrier may request automatic roaming
service from a host carrier on behalf of its subscribers.
Home Market . For automatic roaming, a CMRS carrier's home market is
defined as any geographic location where the home carrier has a
wireless license or spectrum usage rights that could be used to provide
CMRS.
Host Carrier . For automatic roaming, the host carrier is a
facilities-based CMRS carrier on whose system a subscriber roams when
outside its home carrier's home market.
Interconnection or Interconnected. Direct or indirect connection
through automatic or manual means (by wire, microwave, or other
technologies such as store and forward) to permit the transmission or
reception of messages or signals to or from points in the public
switched network.
Interconnected Service. A service:
(a) That is interconnected with the public switched network, or
interconnected with the public switched network through an
interconnected service provider, that gives subscribers the capability
to communicate to or receive communication from all other users on the
public switched network; or
(b) For which a request for such interconnection is pending pursuant to
section 332(c)(1)(B) of the Communications Act, 47 U.S.C. 332(c)(1)(B).
A mobile service offers interconnected service even if the service
allows subscribers to access the public switched network only during
specified hours of the day, or if the service provides general access
to points on the public switched network but also restricts access in
certain limited ways. Interconnected service does not include any
interface between a licensee's facilities and the public switched
network exclusively for a licensee's internal control purposes.
Location-capable handsets. Portable or mobile phones that contain
special location-determining hardware and/or software, which is used by
a licensee to locate 911 calls.
Manual Roaming . With manual roaming, a subscriber must establish a
relationship with the host carrier on whose system he or she wants to
roam in order to make a call. Typically, the roaming subscriber
accomplishes this in the course of attempting to originate a call by
giving a valid credit card number to the carrier providing the roaming
service.
Mobile Service. A radio communication service carried on between mobile
stations or receivers and land stations, and by mobile stations
communicating among themselves, and includes:
(a) Both one-way and two-way radio communications services;
(b) A mobile service which provides a regularly interacting group of
base, mobile, portable, and associated control and relay stations
(whether licensed on an individual, cooperative, or multiple basis) for
private one-way or two-way land mobile radio communications by eligible
users over designated areas of operation; and
(c) Any service for which a license is required in a personal
communications service under part 24 of this chapter.
Network-based Location Technology. A method of providing the location
of wireless 911 callers that employs hardware and/or software in the
CMRS network and/or another fixed infrastructure, and does not require
the use of special location-determining hardware and/or software in the
caller's portable or mobile phone.
Private Mobile Radio Service. A mobile service that is neither a
commercial mobile radio service nor the functional equivalent of a
service that meets the definition of commercial mobile radio service.
Private mobile radio service includes the following:
(a) Not-for-profit land mobile radio and paging services that serve the
licensee's internal communications needs as defined in part 90 of this
chapter. Shared-use, cost-sharing, or cooperative arrangements,
multiple licensed systems that use third party managers or users
combining resources to meet compatible needs for specialized internal
communications facilities in compliance with the safeguards of § 90.179
of this chapter are presumptively private mobile radio services;
(b) Mobile radio service offered to restricted classes of eligible
users. This includes entities eligible in the Public Safety Radio Pool
and Radiolocation service.
(c) 220–222 MHz land mobile service and Automatic Vehicle Monitoring
systems (part 90 of this chapter) that do not offer interconnected
service or that are not-for-profit; and
(d) Personal Radio Services under part 95 of this chapter (General
Mobile Services, Radio Control Radio Services, and Citizens Band Radio
Services); Maritime Service Stations (excluding Public Coast stations)
(part 80 of this chapter); and Aviation Service Stations (part 87 of
this chapter).
Pseudo Automatic Number Identification (Pseudo-ANI). A number,
consisting of the same number of digits as ANI, that is not a North
American Numbering Plan telephone directory number and may be used in
place of an ANI to convey special meaning. The special meaning assigned
to the pseudo-ANI is determined by agreements, as necessary, between
the system originating the call, intermediate systems handling and
routing the call, and the destination system.
Public Safety Answering Point. A point that has been designated to
receive 911 calls and route them to emergency service personnel.
Public Switched Network. Any common carrier switched network, whether
by wire or radio, including local exchange carriers, interexchange
carriers, and mobile service providers, that use the North American
Numbering Plan in connection with the provision of switched services.
Statewide default answering point. An emergency answering point
designated by the State to receive 911 calls for either the entire
State or those portions of the State not otherwise served by a local
PSAP.
[ 59 FR 18495 , Apr. 19, 1994, as amended at 61 FR 38402 , July 24, 1996;
61 FR 40352 , Aug. 2, 1996; 62 FR 18843 , Apr. 17, 1997; 63 FR 2637 , Jan.
16, 1998; 64 FR 60130 , Nov. 4, 1999; 67 FR 1648 , Jan. 14, 2002; 72 FR 50073 , Aug. 30, 2007]
Goto Section: 20.1 | 20.5
Goto Year: 2008 |
2010
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