Alaska Administrative Code
Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development
Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska
Chapter 53 - Telecommunications
Article 5 - Universal Service Fund
3 AAC 53.399 - Definitions

(1) "administrator" means the applicant approved by the commission under 3 AAC 53.310 to serve as administrator of AUSF;

(2) "AUSF" means the Alaska Universal Service Fund;

(3) "eligible telecommunications carrier" means a telecommunications utility eligible under 47 U.S.C. 214(e) of the Federal Communications Act, as amended by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 ( P.L. 104-104 );

(4) repealed 12/20/2018;

(5) "nonpooling company" means a company that is not a participant in the access charge pool established by the Alaska Intrastate Interexchange Access Charge Manual adopted by reference in 3 AAC 48.440;

(6) "pooling company" means a company that is a participant in the access charge pool established by the Alaska Intrastate Interexchange Access Charge Manual adopted by reference in 3 AAC 48.440;

(7) "universal service surcharge" or "surcharge" means a rate paid by a public utility for the use of the public telecommunications network;

(8) repealed 12/20/2018;

(9) "exchange" or "local exchange" has the same meaning given in 3 AAC 48.820;

(10) "local exchange carrier" has the meaning given in 3 AAC 53.299;

(11) "study area" has the meaning given in 3 AAC 53.499;

(12) "Interconnected Voice over Internet Protocol" has the same meaning as set out in 47 C.F.R. 9.3.

(13) "remote areas" means all areas of the state except the ACS-Anchorage incumbent study area; the ACS-Juneau incumbent study area; the Fairbanks zonel disaggregation zone in the ACS-Fairbanks incumbent study area; and the Chugiak 1 and 2 and Eagle River 1 and 2 disaggregation zones of the Matanuska Telephone Association incumbent study area.