Code of Massachusetts Regulations
560 CMR - STATE 911 DEPARTMENT
Title 560 CMR 3.00 - Establishing an Equitable and Reasonable Method for the Remittance and Collection of a Surcharge on Prepaid Wireless Telephone Service
Section 3.03 - Definitions

As used throughout 560 CMR 3.00, the following terms shall have the following meaning:

Average Revenue per User means total revenue divided by the number of subscribers, end users, or customers.

Automatic Location Identification means an enhanced 911 service capability that allows for the automatic display of information relating to the geographical location of the communication device used to place a 911 call.

Automatic Number Identification means an enhanced 911 service capability that allows for the automatic display of a telephone number used to place or route a 911 call.

Customer means a subscriber or end user.

Department means the state 911 department.

End User means a person or entity who uses communication services.

Enhanced 911 Fund means the fund established under M.G.L. c. 10, § 35JJ.

Enhanced 911 Service means a service consisting of communication network, database and equipment features provided for subscribers or end users of communication services enabling such subscribers or end users to reach a PSAP by dialing the digits 911, or by other means approved by the department, that directs calls to appropriate PSAPs based on selective routing and provides the capability for automatic number identification and automatic location identification.

FCC means the Federal Communications Commission.

National Average Revenue per User means the average monthly revenue per user in all states where the prepaid wireless telephone service provider operates.

Prepaid Wireless Telephone Service means wireless service that is activated in advance by payment for a finite dollar amount of service or minutes that terminates either upon use by a customer and delivery by the wireless provider of an agreed-upon amount of service or minutes, unless the customer makes additional payments.

Prepaid Wireless Telephone Service Provider means an entity providing prepaid wireless telephone service at retail or wholesale.

Public Safety Answering Point or PSAP means a facility assigned the responsibility of receiving 911 calls and, as appropriate, directly dispatching emergency response services or transferring or relaying emergency 911 calls to other public or private safety agencies or other PSAPs.

Retail means sales by a prepaid wireless telephone service provider directly to the subscriber, end user, or customer or to a non-prepaid wireless telephone service provider through a voluntary contractual relationship in which the service is sold directly to the subscriber, end user, or customer by the non-prepaid wireless telephone service provider on behalf of the prepaid wireless telephone service provider.

Subscriber means a person or entity who uses communication services.

Universal Service Fund means a mechanism created by the FCC or a state to advance universal telecommunications service.

Wholesale means sales by a prepaid wireless telephone service provider to a non-prepaid wireless telephone service provider that sells service on behalf of the prepaid wireless telephone service provider.