(1) "Automatic location identification" ("ALI") means the automatic display, on equipment at the PSAP, of the location of the caller's telephone number, the address for the telephone, including nonlisted and nonpublished numbers and addresses, and other information about the caller's precise location.

(1.1) "Automatic number identification" ("ANI") means the automatic display, on equipment at the PSAP, of the caller's telephone number.

(1.2) "Basic emergency service provider" ("BESP") means any person authorized by the commission to undertake the aggregation and transportation of 911 calls to a PSAP.

(1.3) "Commission" or "public utilities commission" means the public utilities commission of the state of Colorado, created in section 40-2-101, C.R.S.

(1.5) "Emergency notification service" means an informational service that, upon activation by a public safety agency, uses the 911 database or a database derived from the 911 database to rapidly notify all telephone customers within a specified geographic area of hazardous conditions or emergent events that threaten their lives or property, including, without limitation, floods, fires, and hazardous materials incidents.

(1.6) "Emergency service provider" means a primary provider of emergency fire fighting, law enforcement, ambulance, emergency medical, or other emergency services.

(1.7) "Emergency telephone charge" means a charge to pay the equipment costs, the installation costs, and the directly-related costs of the continued operation of an emergency telephone service according to the rates and schedules filed with the public utilities commission, if applicable.

(2) "Emergency telephone service" means a telephone system utilizing the single three-digit number 911 for reporting police, fire, medical, or other emergency situations.

(2.5) "Equipment supplier" means any person providing telephone or other equipment necessary for an emergency telephone service to any public agency or governing body in this state, through lease or sale.

(3) "Exchange access facilities" means the access from a specific customer's premises to the telecommunications network to effect the transfer of information.

(4) "Governing body" means the board of county commissioners of a county or the city council or other governing body of a city, city and county, or town or the board of directors of a special district.

(4.3) "Interconnected voice-over-internet-protocol service" means a service that:

(a) Enables real-time, two-way voice communications;

(b) Requires a broadband connection from the service user's location;

(c) Requires internet protocol-compatible customer premises equipment; and

(d) Permits service users generally to receive calls that originate on the public switched telephone network and to terminate calls to the public switched telephone network.

(4.5) "MLTS operator" means the person that operates an MLTS from which an end-user may place a 911 call through the public switched network.

(4.6) "Multi-line telephone system" ("MLTS") means a system comprised of common control units, telephones, and control hardware and software providing local telephone service to multiple end-use customers in businesses, apartments, townhouses, condominiums, schools, dormitories, hotels, motels, resorts, extended care facilities, or similar entities, facilities, or structures. "Multi-line telephone system" includes:

(a) Network and premises-based systems such as centrex, pbx, and hybrid-key telephone systems; and

(b) Systems owned or leased by governmental agencies, nonprofit entities, and for-profit businesses.

(5) "Person" means any individual, firm, partnership, copartnership, joint venture, association, cooperative organization, corporation (municipal or private and whether organized for profit or not), governmental agency, state, county, political subdivision, state department, commission, board, or bureau, fraternal organization, nonprofit organization, estate, trust, business or common law trust, receiver, assignee for the benefit of creditors, trustee, or trustee in bankruptcy or any other service user.

(5.5) "Prepaid wireless telecommunications service" means wireless telecommunications access that allows a caller to dial 911 to access the 911 system, is paid for in advance, and is sold in predetermined units or dollars, of which thenumber of units or dollars available to the caller declines with use in a known amount.

(6) "Public agency" means any city, city and county, town, county, municipal corporation, public district, or public authority located in whole or in part within this state which provides or has the authority to provide fire fighting, law enforcement, ambulance, emergency medical, or other emergency services.

(6.5) "Public safety answering point" ("PSAP") means a facility equipped and staffed on a 24-hour basis to receive and process 911 calls.

(6.7) "Rates" means the rates billed by a service supplier pursuant to tariffs, price lists, or contracts, which rates represent the service supplier's recurring charges for exchange access facilities or their equivalent, exclusive of all taxes, fees, licenses, or similar charges.

(7) "Service supplier" means a person providing exchange telephone services, a person providing telecommunications service via wireless carrier, and a person providing interconnected voice-over-internet-protocol service to any service user in this state, either directly or by resale.

(8) "Service user" means a person who is provided exchange telephone service, a person who is provided telecommunications service via wireless carrier, and a person who is provided interconnected voice-over-internet-protocol service in this state.

(9) (Deleted by amendment, L. 97, p. 572, § 2, effective April 30, 1997.)

(10) "Telecommunications service" has the meaning set forth in section 40-15-102 (29), C.R.S.

(11) "Wireless automatic location identification" ("wireless ALI") means the automatic display, on equipment at the PSAP, of the location of the wireless service user initiating a 911 call to the PSAP.

(12) "Wireless automatic number identification" ("wireless ANI") means the mobile identification number of the wireless service user initiating a 911 call to the PSAP.

(13) "Wireless carrier" means a cellular licensee, a personal communications service licensee, and certain specialized mobile radio providers designated as covered carriers by the federal communications commission in 47 CFR 20.18 and any successor to such rule.

(14) "Wireless communications access" means the radio equipment and assigned mobile identification number used to connect a wireless customer to a wireless carrier for two-way interactive voice or voice-capable services.