Terms Used In Ohio Code > Chapter 4927 - Telecommunications - Alternative Regulation

• Another: when used to designate the owner of property which is the subject of an offense, includes not only natural persons but also every other owner of property. See Ohio Code 1.02
• Basic local exchange service: means residential-end-user access to and usage of telephone-company-provided services over a single line or small-business-end-user access to and usage of telephone-company-provided services over the primary access line of service, which in the case of residential and small-business access and usage is not part of a bundle or package of services, that does both of the following:

  (a) Enables a customer to originate or receive voice communications within a local service area as that area exists on September 13, 2010, or as that area is changed with the approval of the public utilities commission;

  (b) Consists of all of the following services:

  (i) Local dial tone service;

  (ii) For residential end users, flat-rate telephone exchange service;

  (iii) Touch tone dialing service;

  (iv) Access to and usage of 9-1-1 services, where such services are available;

  (v) Access to operator services and directory assistance;

  (vi) Provision of a telephone directory in any reasonable format, which includes, at the telephone company's option, an internet-accessible database of directory listings, for no additional charge and a listing in that directory, with reasonable accommodations made for private listings, and for a telephone company that no longer offers a printed directory, provision of reasonable customer notice of the available options to obtain directory information;

  (vii) Per call, caller identification blocking services;

  (viii) Access to telecommunications relay service; and

  (ix) Access to toll presubscription, interexchange or toll providers or both, and networks of other telephone companies. See Ohio Code 4927.01

• Bundle or package of services: means one or more telecommunications services or other services offered together as one service option at a single price. See Ohio Code 4927.01
• Carrier access: means access to and usage of telephone company-provided facilities that enable end user customers originating or receiving voice grade, data, or image communications, over a local exchange telephone company network operated within a local service area, to access interexchange or other networks and includes special access. See Ohio Code 4927.01
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Incumbent local exchange carrier: means , with respect to an area, the local exchange carrier that:

  (a) On February 8, 1996, provided telephone exchange service in such area; and

  (b)(i) On February 8, 1996, was deemed to be a member of the exchange carrier association pursuant to 47 C. See Ohio Code 4927.01

• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• Internet: means the international computer network of both federal and nonfederal interoperable packet switched data networks, including the graphical subnetwork known as the world wide web. See Ohio Code 1.59
• Internet protocol-enabled services: means any services, capabilities, functionalities, or applications that are provided using internet protocol or a successor protocol to enable an end user to send or receive communications in internet protocol format or a successor format, regardless of how any particular such service is classified by the federal communications commission, and includes voice over internet protocol service. See Ohio Code 4927.01
• Interstate-access component: means the portion of carrier access that is within the jurisdiction of the federal communications commission. See Ohio Code 4927.01
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Local exchange carrier: means any person engaged in the provision of telephone exchange service, or the offering of access to telephone exchange service or facilities for the purpose of originating or terminating telephone toll service. See Ohio Code 4927.01
• Local service area: means the geographic area that may encompass more than one exchange area and within which a telephone customer, by paying the rate for basic local exchange service, may complete calls to other telephone customers without being assessed long distance toll charges. See Ohio Code 4927.01
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Person: includes an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, and association. See Ohio Code 1.59
• Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
• Rule: includes regulation. See Ohio Code 1.59
• state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59
• Subpoena duces tecum: A command to a witness to produce documents.
• Telecommunications: means 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. See Ohio Code 4927.01
• Telecommunications service: means the offering of telecommunications for a fee directly to the public, or to such classes of users as to be effectively available directly to the public, regardless of the facilities used. See Ohio Code 4927.01
• Telephone company: means a company described in division (A) of section 4905. See Ohio Code 4927.01
• Telephone exchange service: means telecommunications service that is within a telephone exchange, or within a connected system of telephone exchanges within the same exchange area operated to furnish to subscribers intercommunicating service of the character ordinarily furnished by a single exchange, and that is covered by the exchange service charge; or comparable service provided through a system of switches, transmission equipment, or other facilities, or combination thereof, by which a customer can originate and terminate a telecommunications service. See Ohio Code 4927.01
• Telephone toll service: means telephone service between stations in different exchange areas for which there is made a separate charge not included in contracts with customers for exchange service. See Ohio Code 4927.01
• United States: includes all the states. See Ohio Code 1.59
• Voice over internet protocol service: means a service that enables real-time, two-way, voice communications that originate or terminate from the user's location using internet protocol or a successor protocol, including, but not limited to, any such service that permits an end user to receive calls from and terminate calls to the public switched network. See Ohio Code 4927.01
• Voice service: includes all of the applicable functionalities described in 47 C. See Ohio Code 4927.01
• Wireless service: means federally licensed commercial mobile service as defined in the "Telecommunications Act of 1996" 110 Stat. See Ohio Code 4927.01
• Wireless service provider: means a facilities-based provider of wireless service to one or more end users in this state. See Ohio Code 4927.01