Alaska Administrative Code
Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development
Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska
Chapter 53 - Telecommunications
Article 7 - Criteria for the Provision of Pay-Per-Call Telephone Service
3 AAC 53.599 - Definitions
Universal Citation: 3 AK Admin Code 53.599
Current through February 27, 2024
(a) Unless the context indicates otherwise, in 3 AAC 53.500 - 3 AAC 53.570
(1)
"billing agent" means the local exchange carrier or the intrastate
interexchange carrier doing billing and collection on behalf of the information
provider;
(2) "blocking" means the
denial of customer access to certain telephone services;
(3) "children" means persons under the age of
18;
(4) "information provider"
means a person who furnishes, conducts, or offers a pay-per-call telephone
service or who holds itself out as engaged in the business of furnishing,
conducting, or offering pay-per-call telephone service;
(5) "pay-per-call telephone service" means a
service that permits simultaneous calling by a number of callers to a single
telephone number and for which the customer is assessed, on a per-call or a
per-time-interval basis, a charge that is greater than or in addition to the
charge for the transmission of the call; "pay-per-call telephone service"
excludes directory assistance or conference call services that are offered by a
telecommunications utility and excludes services for which the charge is
dependent upon a presubscription relationship between the customer and a
service provider; and
(6)
"preamble" means an initial, free-of-charge disclosure message preceding the
pay-per-call telephone service that informs the customer about the information
service provider, the program being purchased, and all charges related to the
program.
(b) Definitions contained in 3 AAC 52.340, 3 AAC 52.399, and 3 AAC 48.820 also apply to the words used in 3 AAC 53.500 - 3 AAC 53.570.
Authority:AS 42.05.141
AS 42.05.145
AS 42.05.151
AS 42.05.221
AS 42.05.291
AS 42.05.311
AS 42.05.321
AS 42.05.361
AS 42.05.371
AS 42.05.431
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