Idaho Administrative Code
Title IDAPA 31 - Public Utilities Commission
Rule 31.46.01 - UNIVERSAL SERVICE FUND RULES
Section 31.46.01.005 - DEFINITIONS
Current through August 31, 2023
01. Basic Local Exchange Service. "Basic local exchange service" means the provision of access lines to residential and small business customers with the associated transmission of two-way interactive switched voice communication within a local exchange area. See Section 62-603(1), Idaho Code. (3-31-22)
02. Basic Local Exchange Rate. "Basic local exchange rate" means the monthly charge imposed by a telephone corporation for basic local exchange service, but does not include any charges resulting from action by a federal agency or taxes or surcharges imposed by a governmental body that are separately itemized and billed by a telephone corporation to its customers. See Section 62-603(2), Idaho Code. (3-31-22)
03. Business Telephone Service. "Business telephone service" means telecommunication service that is not residential telephone service. (3-31-22)
04. Local Exchange Company (LEC). "Local exchange company" (LEC) is a telephone corporation providing local exchange service to customers in Idaho. (3-31-22)
05. Local Exchange Service. "Local exchange service" means the provision of local exchange access lines to residential or business customers with the associated transmission of two-way interactive switched voice-grade transmission within a local exchange area. (3-31-22)
06. Message Telecommunication Service (MTS). "Message telecommunication service (MTS)" means the transmission of two-way interactive switched voice communication between local exchange areas for which charges are made on a per-unit basis, not including wide area telecommunications service (WATS), or its equivalent, or individually negotiated contracts for telecommunication services. See Section 62-603(6), Idaho Code. (3-31-22)
07. MTS/WATS Company. "MTS/WATS company" means a telephone corporation providing Idaho intrastate MTS or WATS services within the definition of Section 62-603(6), Idaho Code. (3-31-22)
08. Residential Customer. "Residential customer" means a person to whom telecommunication services are furnished at a dwelling and which are used for personal or domestic purposes and not for business, professional or institutional purposes. See Section 62-603(a), Idaho Code. (3-31-22)
09. Residential Telephone Service. "Residential telephone service" means telecommunication service furnished and maintained at a dwelling primarily for personal or domestic purposes and not for business, professional or institutional purposes, i.e., service provided to a residential customer as defined in Section 62-603(7), Idaho Code. (3-31-22)
10. Residual Revenue Requirement. "Residual revenue requirement means a local exchange company's revenue requirement as determined by the Commission less revenue generated by all intrastate telecommunication services, including local exchange services priced at one hundred twenty-five percent (125%) or more of the weighted statewide average and MTS/WATS access services priced at one hundred percent (100%) or more of the statewide average, less contributions from the federal universal service fund. See Section 62-610(4), Idaho Code. (3-31-22)
11. Small Business Customer. "Small business customer" means a business entity, whether an individual, partnership, corporation or any other business form, to whom telecommunication services are furnished for occupational, professional or institutional purposes, and whose business entity does not subscribe to more than five (5) access lines within a building. See Section 62-603(a), Idaho Code. (3-31-22)
12. Telecommunication Service. "Telecommunication Service" means the transmission of two-way interactive switched signs, signals, writing, images, sounds, messages, data, or other information of any nature by wire, radio, light waves, or other electromagnetic means (which includes message telecommunication service and access service), which originate and terminate in Idaho, and are offered to or for the public, or some portion thereof, for compensation. "Telecommunication Service" does not include the one-way transmission to subscribers of: (3-31-22)
13. Telephone Corporation. "Telephone corporation" means every corporation or person, their lessees, trustees, receivers or trustees appointed by any court whatsoever, providing telecommunication services for compensation within Idaho. Telephone corporations providing radio paging, mobile radio telecommunications services, answering services (including computerized or otherwise automated answering or voice message services), or one-way transmission to subscribers of: (3-31-22)
14. WATS. "WATS" means wide-area telecommunications service. (3-31-22)
