New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 17 - PUBLIC UTILITIES AND UTILITY SERVICES
Chapter 11 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Part 18 - INTERCONNECTION FACILITIES AND UNBUNDLED NETWORK ELEMENTS
Section 17.11.18.7 - DEFINITIONS

A. bill-and-keep arrangement means neither of two interconnecting LECs charges the other for the transport and termination of local calls that originate on the other LEC's network;

B. carrier means any person that furnishes telecommunications service to the public subject to the jurisdiction of the commission, regardless of the facilities used and regardless of whether the person relies in part or entirely on another carrier's facilities;

C. competitive local exchange carrier (CLEC) means a carrier that provides local exchange and exchange access service in its service area and is not an ILEC;

D. element includes an ILEC's UNEs, ILEC-provided collocation and other methods of obtaining interconnection and access to UNEs, and an ILEC's transport and termination of local traffic originated by an interconnecting LEC whenever explicit reciprocal compensation charges are established;

E. embedded costs means costs an ILEC incurred in the past that are recorded in the ILEC's books of accounts;

F. forward-looking common costs means economic costs efficiently incurred in providing a group of UNEs or services (which may include all UNEs or services provided by the ILEC) that cannot be attributed directly to individual UNEs or services;

G. forward-looking cost of capital means the cost of obtaining debt and equity financing in the capital markets;

H. incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) means a person, or an affiliate of a person, that was authorized to provide local exchange and exchange access service in New Mexico on February 8, 1996 or a successor or assignee of such person or affiliate; a telecommunications provider will also be treated as an ILEC if the federal communications commission determines that such provider (or class or category of provider) shall be treated as an ILEC pursuant to 47 U.S.C. Section 251(h)(2);

I. interconnection means the linking of two networks for the mutual exchange of traffic, but does not include the transport and termination of traffic;

J. local call means a local exchange service call for which the originating location (defined as the location of the NID serving the originating end user) and the terminating location (defined as the location of the NID serving the terminating end user) are located within the local calling area defined for the originating end user, including all mandatory emergency alert system ("EAS") exchanges and any optional EAS exchanges to which the originating end user subscribes;

K. local exchange carrier (LEC) means a provider of local exchange and exchange access service and includes both CLECs and ILECs;

L. network interface device (NID) means the cross-connect device used to connect loop facilities to intra-premises cabling or inside wiring at an end user's premises;

M. opportunity costs means the revenues the ILEC would have received for the sale of telecommunications services in the absence of competition from telecommunications carriers that purchase UNEs;

N. originating LEC means the LEC that serves the end user who originates a local call;

O. physical collocation has the meaning given in 47 C.F.R. Section 51.5;

P. retailing costs include the costs of marketing, billing, collection and other functions associated with offering retail telecommunications services to subscribers who are not telecommunications carriers;

Q. rural local exchange carrier (rural LEC) has the meaning given in 47 U.S.C. Section 153(37) for "rural telephone company";

R. terminating LEC means the LEC that serves the end user who receives a local call;

S. total element long run incremental cost (TELRIC) (of a UNE) means the forward-looking cost over the long run of the total quantity of facilities and functions directly attributable to, or reasonably identifiable as incremental to, a UNE, assuming the ILEC's provision of other UNEs;

T. unbundled network element (UNE) means a facility or equipment used in the provision of a telecommunications service that an ILEC must provide to any requesting telecommunications carrier on an unbundled basis, pursuant to Section 251(c)(3) of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, Pub. L. No. 104-104, 110 Stat. 56 (1996); the term includes, but is not limited to, features, functions and capabilities that are provided by means of such facility or equipment, including but not limited to, subscriber numbers, databases, signaling systems, and information sufficient for billing and collection or used in the transmission, routing, or other provision of a telecommunications service;

U. virtual collocation has the meaning given in 47 C.F.R. Section 51.5.