§ 64.708   Definitions.

   As used in § § 64.703 through 64.707 of this part and § 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) CMRS aggregator means an aggregator 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 CMRS
   operator services;

   (e) CMRS operator services means operator services provided by means of a
   commercial mobile radio service as defined in section 20.3 of this chapter.

   (f) Consumer means a person initiating any interstate telephone call using
   operator services. In collect calling arrangements handled by a provider of
   operator  services,  the  term consumer also includes the party on the
   terminating end of the call. For bill-to-third-party calling arrangements
   handled by a provider of operator services, the term consumer also includes
   the  party to be billed for the call if the latter is contacted by the
   operator service provider to secure billing approval.

   (g)  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;

   (h) Equal access code means an access code that allows the public to obtain
   an equal access connection to the carrier associated with that code;

   (i)  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 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;

   (j)  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;

   (k) Provider of CMRS operator services means a provider of operator services
   that provides CMRS operator services;

   (l) 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;  63 FR 43041 , Aug. 11, 1998;  67 FR 2820 , Jan. 22, 2002]

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