§ 69.2   Definitions.

   For purposes of the part:

   (a)  Access minutes or Access minutes of use is that usage of exchange
   facilities in interstate or foreign service for the purpose of calculating
   chargeable usage. On the originating end of an interstate or foreign call,
   usage is to be measured from the time the originating end user's call is
   delivered by the telephone company and acknowledged as received by the
   interexchange carrier's facilities connected with the originating exchange.
   On the terminating end of an interstate or foreign call, usage is to be
   measured  from  the  time  the call is received by the end user in the
   terminating  exchange.  Timing  of  usage  at both the originating and
   terminating end of an interstate or foreign call shall terminate when the
   calling or called party disconnects, whichever event is recognized first in
   the originating and terminating end exchanges, as applicable.

   (b)  Access  service includes services and facilities provided for the
   origination or termination of any interstate or foreign telecommunication.

   (c) Annual revenue requirement means the sum of the return component and the
   expense component.

   (d) Association means the telephone company association described in subpart
   G of this part.

   (e) Big Three Expenses are the combined expense groups comprising: Plant
   Specific Operations Expense, Accounts 6110, 6120, 6210, 6220, 6230, 6310 and
   6410; Plant Nonspecific Operations Expenses, Accounts 6510, 6530 and 6540,
   and Customer Operations Expenses, Accounts 6610 and 6620.

   (f)  Big  Three Expense Factors are the ratios of the sum of Big Three
   Expenses apportioned to each element or category to the combined Big Three
   Expenses.

   (g) Cable and wire facilities includes all equipment or facilities that are
   described  as  cable and wire facilities in the Separations Manual and
   included in Account 2410.

   (h) Carrier cable and wire facilities means all cable and wire facilities
   that are not subscriber line cable and wire facilities.

   (i) Central Office Equipment or COE includes all equipment or facilities
   that are described as Central Office Equipment in the Separations Manual and
   included in Accounts 2210, 2220 and 2230.

   (j) Corporate operations expenses are included in General and Administrative
   Expenses (Account 6720).

   (k) Customer operations expenses include Marketing and Services expenses in
   Accounts 6610 and 6620, respectively.

   (l) Direct expense means expenses that are attributable to a particular
   category or categories of tangible investment described in subpart D of this
   part and includes:

   (1) Plant Specific Operations expenses in Accounts 6110, 6120, 6210, 6220,
   6230, 6310 and 6410; and

   (2) Plant Nonspecific Operations Expenses in Accounts 6510, 6530, 6540 and
   6560.

   (m)   End  user  means  any  customer  of  an  interstate  or  foreign
   telecommunications service that is not a carrier except that a carrier other
   than a telephone company shall be deemed to be an “end user” when such
   carrier uses a telecommunications service for administrative purposes and a
   person or entity that offers telecommunications services exclusively as a
   reseller shall be deemed to be an “end user” if all resale transmissions
   offered by such reseller originate on the premises of such reseller.

   (n) Entry switch means the telephone company switch in which a transport
   line or trunk terminates.

   (o) Expense component means the total expenses and income charges for an
   annual period that are attributable to a particular element or category.

   (p) Expenses include allowable expenses in the Uniform System of Accounts,
   part 32, apportioned to interstate or international services pursuant to the
   Separations Manual and allowable income charges apportioned to interstate
   and international services pursuant to the Separations Manual.

   (q) General support facilities include buildings, land, vehicles, aircraft,
   work equipment, furniture, office equipment and general purpose computers as
   described in the Separations Manual and included in Account 2110.

   (r) Information origination/termination equipment includes all equipment or
   facilities  that  are described as information origination/termination
   equipment in the Separations Manual and in Account 2310 except information
   origination/termination equipment that is used by telephone companies in
   their own operations.

   (s)  Interexchange  or the interexchange category includes services or
   facilities  provided  as  an  integral  part  of interstate or foreign
   telecommunications that is not described as “access service” for purposes of
   this part.

   (t) Level I Contributors. Telephone companies that are not association
   Common  Line  tariff  participants, file their own Common Line tariffs
   effective April 1, 1989, and had a lower than average Common Line revenue
   requirement per minute of use in 1988 and thus were net contributors (i.e.,
   had a negative net balance) to the association Common Line pool in 1988.

   (u) Level I Receivers. Telephone companies that are not association Common
   Line tariff participants, file their own Common Line tariffs effective April
   1, 1989, and had a higher than average Common Line revenue requirement per
   minute of use in 1988 and thus were net receivers (i.e., had a positive net
   balance) from the association Common Line Pool in 1988.

   (v)  Level II Contributors. A telephone company or group of affiliated
   telephone companies with fewer than 300,000 access lines and less than $150
   million in annual operating revenues that is not an association Common Line
   tariff participant, that files its own Common Line tariff effective July 1,
   1990, and that had a lower than average Common Line revenue requirement per
   minute of use in 1988 and thus was a net contributor (i.e., had a negative
   net balance) to the association Common Line pool in 1988.

   (w) Level II Receivers. A telephone company or group of affiliated telephone
   companies with fewer than 300,000 access lines and less than $150 million in
   annual operating revenues that is not an association Common Line tariff
   participant, that files its own Common Line tariff effective July 1, 1990,
   and that had a higher than average Common Line revenue requirement per
   minute of use in 1988 and thus was a net receiver (i.e., had a positive net
   balance) from the association Common Line pool in 1988.

   (x) Line or Trunk includes, but is not limited to, transmission media such
   as  radio,  satellite,  wire,  cable  and  fiber  optic cable means of
   transmission.

   (y) [Reserved]

   (z) Net investment means allowable original cost investment in Accounts 2001
   through 2003, 1220 and the investments in nonaffiliated companies included
   in  Account  1410, that has been apportioned to interstate and foreign
   services  pursuant  to the Separations Manual from which depreciation,
   amortization and other reserves attributable to such investment that has
   been  apportioned  to  interstate and foreign services pursuant to the
   Separations Manual have been subtracted and to which working capital that is
   attributable to interstate and foreign services has been added.

   (aa) Operating taxes include all taxes in Account 7200;

   (bb) Origination of a service that is switched in a Class 4 switch or an
   interexchange switch that performs an equivalent function ends when the
   transmission enters such switch and termination of such a service begins
   when the transmission leaves such a switch, except that;

   (1) Switching in a Class 4 switch or transmission between Class 4 switches
   that is not deemed to be interexchange for purposes of the Modified Final
   Judgement entered August 24, 1982, in United States v Western Electric Co.,
   D.C. Civil Action No. 82-0192, will be “origination” or “termination” for
   purposes of this part; and

   (2) Origination and Termination does not include the use of any part of a
   line, trunk or switch that is not owned or leased by a telephone company.

   (cc) Origination of any service other than a service that is switched in a
   Class 4 switch or a switch that performs an equivalent function ends and
   “termination” of any such service begins at a point of demarcation that
   corresponds with the point of demarcation that is used for a service that is
   switched  in  a Class 4 switch or a switch that performs an equivalent
   function.

   (dd) Private line means a line that is used exclusively for an interexchange
   service other than MTS, WATS or an MTS-WATS equivalent service, including a
   line that is used at the closed end of an FX WATS or CCSA service or any
   service that is substantially equivalent to a CCSA service.

   (ee) Public telephone is a telephone provided by a telephone company through
   which an end user may originate interstate or foreign telecommunications for
   which he pays with coins or by credit card, collect or third number billing
   procedures.

   (ff) Return component means net investment attributable to a particular
   element or category multiplied by the authorized annual rate of return.

   (gg) Subscriber line cable and wire facilities means all lines or trunks on
   the subscriber side of a Class 5 or end office switch, including lines or
   trunks that do not terminate in such a switch, except lines or trunks that
   connect an interexchange carrier.

   (hh) Telephone company or Local exchange carrier as used in this part means
   an incumbent local exchange carrier as defined in section 251(h)(1) of the
   1934 Act as amended by the 1996 Act.

   (ii) Transitional support (TRS) means funds provided by telephone companies
   that are not association Common Line tariff participants, but were net
   contributors to the association Common Line pool in 1988, to telephone
   companies that are not association Common Line tariff participants and were
   net receivers from the association Common Line pool in 1988.

   (jj) Unit of capacity means the capability to transmit one conversation.

   (kk) WATS access line means a line or trunk that is used exclusively for
   WATS service.

   (ll) Equal access investment and equal access expenses mean equal access
   investment and expenses as defined for purposes of the part 36 separations
   rules.

   (mm) Basic service elements are optional unbundled features that enhanced
   service providers may require or find useful in the provision of enhanced
   services, as defined in Amendments of part 69 of the Commission's rules
   relating to the Creation of Access Charge Subelements for Open Network
   Architecture, Report and Order, 6 FCC Rcd ____, CC Docket No. 89-79, FCC
   91-186 (1991).

   (nn)  Dedicated  signalling  transport  means transport of out-of-band
   signalling information between an interexchange carrier or other person's
   common channel signalling network and a telephone company's signalling
   transport point on facilities dedicated to the use of a single customer.

   (oo) Direct-trunked transport means transport on circuits dedicated to the
   use of a single interexchange carrier or other person, without switching at
   the tandem,

   (1) Between the serving wire center and the end office, or

   (2) Between two customer-designated telephone company offices.

   (pp) End office means the telephone company office from which the end user
   receives exchange service.

   (qq) Entrance facilities means transport from the interexchange carrier or
   other person's point of demarcation to the serving wire center.

   (rr)  Serving  wire  center means the telephone company central office
   designated by the telephone company to serve the geographic area in which
   the interexchange carrier or other person's point of demarcation is located.

   (ss) Tandem-switched transport means transport of traffic that is switched
   at a tandem switch—

   (1) Between the serving wire center and the end office, or

   (2) Between the telephone company office containing the tandem switching
   equipment, as described in § 36.124 of this chapter, and the end office.

   Tandem-switched transport between a serving wire center and an end office
   consists of circuits dedicated to the use of a single interexchange carrier
   or other person from the serving wire center to the tandem (although this
   dedicated link will not exist if the serving wire center and the tandem are
   located  in  the  same  place) and circuits used in common by multiple
   interexchange carriers or other persons from the tandem to the end office.

   (tt) [Reserved]

   (uu)  Price  cap regulation means the method of regulation of dominant
   carriers provided in § § 61.41 through 61.49 of this chapter.

   (vv) Signalling for tandem switching means the carrier identification code
   (CIC) and the OZZ code, or equivalent information needed to perform tandem
   switching functions. The CIC identifies the interexchange carrier and the
   OZZ identifies the interexchange carrier trunk to which traffic should be
   routed.

   (ww) Interstate common line support (ICLS) means funds that are provided
   pursuant to § 54.901 of this chapter.

   [ 52 FR 37309 , Oct. 6, 1987]

   Editorial Note: For Federal Register citations affecting § 69.2, see the List
   of CFR Sections Affected, which appears in the Finding Aids section of the
   printed volume and at www.fdsys.gov.

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