Alaska Administrative Code
Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development
Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska
Chapter 51 - Telecommunications Relay Services
Article 1 - Criteria for the Provision of Telecommunications Relay Service for the Deaf, Hard of Hearing, and Speech Impaired
3 AAC 51.199 - Definitions

(1) "basic TRS" means the minimum operational, technical, and functional standards, and the services and programs required by 3 AAC 51.020(e);

(2) "billable minute" or "billable minute of use" means the time period measured in minutes beginning from the point when a communication assistant connects to an incoming relay call until the moment the communication assistant disconnects from the last party to the call; "billable minute"

(3) "immediately available money" means a corporate or personal check drawn on a bank account for which money is available for use by the receiving party on the same day that the check is received and includes United States Federal Reserve Bank wire transfers, United States currency, and United States Postal Money Orders;

(4) "monthly revenue requirement" means the product of the number of billable minutes of use for a given month times the TRS provider's billable minute-of-use rate as specified in its application to provide TRS;

(5) "multi-line business subscriber" means a business subscriber that maintains more than one business telephone line from a local exchange carrier within the subscriber's serving area;

(6) "optional services" means a TRS that is not included in basic TRS;

(7) "single-line business subscriber" means a business subscriber that maintains only one business telephone line from a local exchange carrier within the subscriber's serving area;

(8) "surcharge" means the rate set by the commission to recover an estimated monthly revenue requirement of the TRS provider;

(9) "telecommunications relay service" or "TRS" means a telephone transmission service that provides the ability for an individual who is deaf, hard-of-hearing, or speech disabled to engage in communication by wire or radio with a hearing individual in a manner that is functionally equivalent to the ability of an individual who is not deaf, hard-of- hearing, or speech disabled to communicate using voice communication services by wire or radio; "TRS" includes services that enable two-way communication between an individual who uses a relay device and an individual who does not use such a device;

(10) repealed 5/16/2020.