New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 17 - PUBLIC UTILITIES AND UTILITY SERVICES
Chapter 11 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Part 23 - RETAIL SERVICE PRICING STANDARDS FOR MID-SIZE CARRIERS
Section 17.11.23.7 - DEFINITIONS

Universal Citation: 17 NM Admin Code 17.11.23.7

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024

As used in this rule:

A. basic services means retail telecommunications services that provide residence or business customers with an individual primary line providing voice grade access to the public switched network;

B. basket means a collection of retail telecommunications services grouped together in order to calculate permissible changes in the price ceilings for the services;

C. bundle means a combination of regulated services and unregulated services in a single retail product offering; the unregulated services may be obtained by a mid-size carrier from another entity;

D. commission notice means a letter of notice filed by a mid-size carrier at the New Mexico public regulation commission;

E. cost means the cost incurred by a mid-size carrier to provide a service in New Mexico;

F. customer notice means notice of changes in service prices, terms, or conditions provided by a mid-size carrier to retail customers via bill message or, at the option of the mid-size carrier, via bill insert, direct mail, or publication in newspapers;

G. effective price means the current tariffed price for a retail telecommunications service;

H. initial price means a mid-size carrier's rates on file at the commission on the first date that the carrier is regulated under this rule. The first established price of a new service introduced after the effective date of this rule shall be considered its initial price;

I. mid-size carrier means any telecommunications company with more than fifty thousand but less than three hundred seventy-five thousand access lines in New Mexico;

J. non-basic services means retail telecommunications services that are not a basic service, a switched access service or a wholesale service governed by an interconnection agreement;

K. package means the combination of two or more regulated services in a single retail product offering by a mid-size carrier;

L. price ceiling means the maximum price at which a basic or non-basic service may be offered;

M. price floor means the lowest price at which a basic or non-basic service may be offered;

N. promotion means the offering of a new or existing telecommunications product or service at a new or reduced price or on modified terms for a temporary period;

O. service area refers to the territory served by a mid-size carrier within a single wire center.

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