Sec.16-1-119. Definitions

As used in these rules concerning local calling.

(1) "Customer" or "Subscriber" means any person or entity which has contracted with a telephone company for residential or business exchange telephone service and shall include any such persons or entities that would normally be served from the exchange requesting extended local calling but have foreign exchange service properly provided from the exchange to which toll free calling is requested.

(2) "Contiguous Exchange" means an exchange that adjoins or comes in physical contact with the boundaries of another exchange at any point.

(3) "Exchange" means a telephone service area with geographic boundaries or company designated administrative boundaries within which all customers have access to an identical list of central office codes which constitute the first three digits of telephone numbers they can call without paying a toll charge.

(4) "Extended Local Calling (ELC)" means a local exchange service that allows the telephone user to dial to a telephone which is located in an exchange other than the one from which the customer is served without incurring a toll charge. Such service shall be deemed "two-way" if extended local calling service is available to both exchanges in which an ELC route terminates, and "way" where a call on such a route, in either direction, requires the payment of a toll charge.

(5) "Main Station" means each exchange access line, or the equivalent as defined in the telephone company tariff, connected to a central office serving the exchange in question. Connection at the central office to switching equipment permits communication with other main stations.

(6) "Non-Contiguous Exchanges" means that the exchange boundaries of two exchanges do not adjoin or come in contact with each other at any point.

(7) "Petition" means a request for extended local calling which meets the requirements of section 16-1-120 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies and is in compliance with the provisions governing petitions to the Authority in general, Section 16-1-10 through 16-1-15 and Sections 16-1-45 to 16-1-52 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies.

(8) "Public Utilities Regulatory Authority," "PURA" or "the Authority" means the Connecticut Public Utilities Regulatory Authority.

(9) "Telephone Company" means any public service company providing exchange telephone service within the state of Connecticut.

(10) "Split Town" means a Town served by two or more exchanges, between any two of which a toll charge applies when such toll charge is not the result of a customer choosing to be served from an exchange other than the one designated to serve that area.

(Effective February 24, 1982; Amended February 5, 2016)