New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 17 - PUBLIC UTILITIES AND UTILITY SERVICES
Chapter 11 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Part 3 - EXTENDED AREA SERVICE
Section 17.11.3.7 - DEFINITIONS

A. Access line means a communications facility extending from a customer's premises to a serving central office comprising a subscriber line.

B. CCS means hundred calling seconds, a measure of telephone traffic load obtained by multiplying the number of calls in one hour by the average call duration in seconds and dividing that product by one hundred.

C. Commission means the New Mexico State Corporation Commission.

D. EAS means extended area service, a switching and trunking arrangement which provides for non-optional, unlimited, two way, flat rate calling service between two or more contiguous exchanges.

E. Exchange regrouping means a method of automatically moving an exchange into another rate group (based on the number of access lines available for local calling) if the exchange no longer fits the tariffed definition for its current rate group.

F. Holding time means the total duration, in time, of one completed call.

G. Local exchange company means a provider of local exchange services.

H. Rate additive means the rate, if any, which may be added to subscribers of a local exchange to offset any increased revenue requirement which may be found by the Commission to be due to EAS provision.

I. Stimulation factor means the measure of the increase in telephone messages between two exchanges when they are connected by EAS instead of message toll service.

J. Subscriber means any person subscribing to a local exchange company for the provision of basic exchange services.