D.C. Mun. Regs. r. 15-2799
When used in this chapter, the following terms and phrases shall have the meaning ascribed:
Abandonment of Certification Application - an application to abandon the certification to operate as a CLEC in the District of Columbia.
Abandonment of Certification or Certificate of Convenience and Public Necessity Application - an application to abandon the certification or certificate of convenience and public necessity to operate as a telecommunications service provider in the District of Columbia.
Abandonment of Copper Facilities - removal or disabling of copper facilities; the replacement of copper facilities with fiber-to-the-home loops or fiber-to-the -curb loops; or the failure to maintain copper facilities that is the functional equivalent of removal or disabling these facilities.
Abandonment, Reduction, or Impairment of Service Application - an application to abandon, reduce, or impair the provisioning of telecommunications services in the District, either in whole or in part (including, but not limited to, for a class of customers (such as residential customers or business customers} or customers located in specified geographic areas).
Abandonment of Service Application - an application to abandon provisioning of telecommunications services in the District, either in whole or in part (including, but not limited to, for a class of customers (such as residential customers or business customers} or customers located in specified geographic areas).
Access line - a telecommunications channel of varying size that is associated with a particular telephone number.
Applicant - a CLEC filing an abandonment of certification or an abandonment of service application.
Business customer - a customer who subscribes to a telecommunications service provider's business services.
Clearing - that the telecommunications service provider has restored the service to the customer, so the out-of-service problem no longer exists.
Commission - the Public Service Commission of the District of Columbia.
Competitive Local Exchange Carrier (CLEC) - any provider of telecommunications service that was not an incumbent local exchange carrier on January 31, 1996, and has been granted certification to provide telecommunications services in the District of Columbia.
Copper Facilities - copper loops, subloops, or the feeder portion of such loops and subloops.
Customer trouble report - a report of trouble on a customer's access line received by the telecommunications service provider. The customer trouble report can be filed by the customer, a third party, or an employee of the telecommunications service provider.
Days - calendar days, unless otherwise provided.
FCC - Federal Communications Commission.
Incumbent local exchange carrier - with respect to an area, the local exchange carrier or its successor(s) that provided local exchange service in such an area on the date of enactment of the federal Telecommunications Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-104).
Installation date - the date set by the telecommunications service provider by which an installation of an access line is to be completed.
Local Exchange Service - a telecommunications service provided within an exchange area.
Local Exchange Carrier - a provider of local exchange service within an exchange area.
NENA standards - the standards adopted by the National Emergency Number Association to provide guidance with 911 and E911 technical and operational issues.
Out-of-service - a condition in which the customer either cannot complete outgoing calls or receive incoming calls or where interference makes connected calls incomprehensible.
Outage report - a report to the telecommunications service provider of an out-of-service condition.
Residential customer - a customer who subscribes to a telecommunications service provider's residential services.
Retail Quality of Service Measures - the measures used to evaluate telecommunications service providers' quality of service to retail customers.
Service outage - an outage that lasts for at least thirty (30) minutes and affects one hundred (100) or more retail customers or one hundred (100) or more retail access lines. This definition includes an outage affecting the District of Columbia's PSAP in one of the following ways:
Tariff - a written schedule that describes the service being offered, lists all terms and conditions, and specifies the rate or rates charged for the service.
Telecommunications - the transmission, between or among points specified by the user, of information of the user's choosing, without change in the form or content of the information as sent and received.
Telecommunications industry - communications businesses using regulated or unregulated facilities or services and includes broadcasting, telecommunications, cable, computer data transmission, software, programming, advanced messaging and electronics.
Telecommunications service- the offering of telecommunications for a fee directly to the public or to such classes of users as to be effectively available to the public, regardless of the facilities used.
Telecommunications service provider - an entity that provides telecommunications services. An entity that provides only telecommunications services that are not regulated by the Commission is not included in this definition.
Time Division Multiplexing - is a communications process that transmits two or more streaming digital signals over a common channel. In TDM, incoming signals are divided into equal fixed- length time slots. After multiplexing, these signals are transmitted over a shared medium and reassembled into their original format after de- multiplexing. Time slot selection is directly proportional to overall system efficiency.
Trouble - an impairment of the telephone network, or a deviation from its design specifications.
1 D.C. Official Code §§ 34-802 (2012 Repl.); 2-505 (2016 Repl.), 34-2002(g) and 34-2002(n) (2018 Supp.).
2 66 DCR 6493-6494 (May 24, 2019).
3RM27-2019-01, In the Matter of the Commission's Investigation into the Rules Governing Local Exchange Carrier Quality of Service Standards for the District, Letter Comments of the Office of the People's Counsel of the District of Columbia, filed June 24, 2019.
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