| (36) Census block group (CBG)--A United States Census
Bureau geographic designation that generally contains between 250
and 550 housing units.
(37) Certificated service area--The geographic area
within which a company has been authorized to provide basic local
telecommunications services pursuant to a certificate of convenience
and necessity (CCN), a certificate of operating authority (COA), or
a service provider certificate of operating authority (SPCOA) issued
by the commission.
(38) Certificated telecommunications utility--A telecommunications
utility that has been granted either a CCN, a COA, or a SPCOA.
(39) Class of service or customer class--A description
of utility service provided to a customer which denotes such characteristics
as nature of use (business or residential) or type of rate (flat rate
or message rate). Classes may be further subdivided into grades, denoting
individual or multiparty line or denoting quality of service.
(40) Commercial mobile radio service (CMRS)--
(A) As defined in 47 C.F.R. §20.3, a mobile service
that is:
(i) provided for profit with, i.e., the intent of receiving
compensation or monetary gain;
(ii) an interconnected service; and
(iii) 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 subparagraph (A) of this paragraph.
(41) Commission--The Public Utility Commission of Texas.
(42) Commission on State Emergency Communications (CSEC)--The
state commission with the responsibilities and authority as specified
in Texas Health and Safety Code, Chapter 771.
(43) Competitive exchange service--Any of the following
services, when provided on an inter- or intrastate basis within an
exchange area: central office based PBX-type services for systems
of 75 stations or more; billing and collection services; high speed
private line services of 1.544 megabits or greater; customized services;
private line and virtual private line services; resold or shared local
exchange telephone services if permitted by tariff; dark fiber services;
non-voice data transmission service when offered as a separate service
and not as a component of basic local telecommunications service;
dedicated or virtually dedicated access services; services for which
a local exchange company has been granted authority to engage in pricing
flexibility pursuant to §26.211 of this title (relating to Rate-Setting
Flexibility for Services Subject to Significant Competitive Challenges);
any service initially provided within an exchange after October 26,
1992, if first provided by an entity other than the incumbent local
exchange company (companies) certificated to provide service within
that exchange; and any other service the commission declares is not
local exchange telephone service.
(44) Competitive services (CS)--Those services as defined
in Public Utility Regulatory Act §58.151, and any other service
the commission subsequently categorizes as a competitive service.
(45) Completed call--A call that is answered by the
called party.
(46) Complex service--The provision of a circuit requiring
special treatment, special equipment, or special engineering design,
including but not limited to private lines, WATS, PBX trunks, rotary
lines, and special assemblies.
(47) Consumer good or service--
(A) Real property or tangible or intangible personal
property that is normally used for personal, family, or household
purposes, including personal property intended to be attached to or
installed in any real property;
(B) A cemetery lot;
(C) A time-share estate; or
(D) A service related to real or personal property.
(48) Consumer telephone call--An unsolicited call made
to a residential telephone number to:
(A) solicit a sale of a consumer good or service;
(B) solicit an extension of credit for a consumer good
or service; or
(C) obtain information that will or may be used to
directly solicit a sale of a consumer good or service or to extend
credit for the sale.
(49) Cooperative--An incumbent local exchange company
that is a cooperative corporation.
(50) Cooperative corporation--
(A) An electric cooperative corporation organized and
operating under the Electric Cooperative Corporation Act, Texas Utilities
Code Annotated, Chapter 161, or a predecessor statute to Chapter 161
and operating under that chapter; or
(B) A telephone cooperative corporation organized under
the Telephone Cooperative Act, Texas Utilities Code, Chapter 162,
or a predecessor statute to Chapter 162 and operating under that chapter.
(51) Corporate name--Has the meaning assigned by Texas
Business Corporation Act, Article §2.05.
(52) Corporation--A domestic or foreign corporation,
joint-stock company, or association, and each lessee, assignee, trustee,
receiver or other successor in interest of the corporation, company,
or association, that has any of the powers or privileges of a corporation
not possessed by an individual or partnership. The term does not include
a municipal corporation, except as expressly provided by the Public
Utility Regulatory Act.
(53) Custom calling-type services--Call management
services available from a central office switching system including,
but not limited to, call forwarding, call waiting, caller ID, or automatic
recall.
(54) Customer access line--A unit of measurement representing
a telecommunications circuit or, in the case of ISDN, a telecommunications
channel designated for a particular customer. One customer access
line shall be counted for each circuit which is capable of generating
usage on the line side of the switched network or a private line circuit,
regardless of the quantity or ownership of customer premises equipment
connected to each circuit. In the case of multiparty lines, each party
shall be counted as a separate customer access line.
(55) Customer-initiated change--A change in the telecommunications
utility serving a customer that is initiated by the customer and is
not the result of direct mail solicitation, telemarketing, or other
actions initiated by the carrier.
(56) Customer premises equipment (CPE)--Telephone terminal
equipment located at a customer's premises. This does not include
overvoltage protection equipment, inside wiring, coin-operated (or
pay) telephones, "company-official" equipment, mobile telephone equipment,
"911" equipment, equipment necessary for provision of communications
for national defense, or multiplexing equipment used to deliver multiple
channels to the customer.
(57) Customer proprietary network information (CPNI),
customer-specific--Any information compiled about a customer by a
telecommunications utility in the normal course of providing telephone
service that identifies the customer by matching such information
with the customer's name, address, or billing telephone number. This
information includes, but is not limited to: line type(s), technical
characteristics (e.g., rotary service),
class of service, current telephone charges, long distance billing
record, local service billing record, directory assistance charges,
usage data, and calling patterns.
(58) Customer trouble report--Any oral or written report
from a customer or user of telecommunications service received by
any telecommunications utility relating to a physical defect, difficulty,
or dissatisfaction with the service provided by the telecommunications
utility's facilities. Each telephone or PBX switchboard position reported
in trouble shall be counted as a separate report when several items
are reported by one customer at the same time, unless the group of
troubles so reported is clearly related to a common cause.
(59) dBrn--A unit used to express noise power relative
to one Pico watt (-90 dBm).
(60) dBrnC--Noise power in dBrn, measured with C-message
weighting.
(61) dBrnCO--Noise power in dBrnC referred to or measured
at a zero transmission level point.
(62) D-Channel--The integrated-services-digital-network
out-of-band signaling channel.
(63) Dedicated signaling transport--Transmission of
out-of-band signaling information between an access customer's common
channel signaling network and a CTU's signaling transport point on
facilities dedicated to the use of a single customer.
(64) Dedicated 9-1-1 trunk--Refers to either:
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