52:17C-17 Definitions relative to fees on mobile telecommunications customers

1. As used in this act:

"Home service provider" means the facilities-based carrier or reseller with which the customer contracts for the provision of mobile telecommunications service;

"Mobile telecommunications company" mean a carrier providing mobile telecommunications service in this State;

"Mobile telecommunications service" means commercial mobile radio service, as defined in section 20.3 of title 47 of the Code of Federal Regulations as in effect on June 1, 1999 charged by a customer's home service provider and provided to a customer with a place of primary use in this State and which provides real-time, two-way voice service that is interconnected with the public switched network;

"Place of primary use" means the street address representative of where the customer's use of the mobile telecommunications service primarily occurs, which shall be the residential street address or the primary business street address of the customer and within the licensed service area of the home service provider. For the purposes of determining the place of primary use, the terms used have the meanings provided pursuant to the federal "Mobile Telecommunications Sourcing Act,'' 4 U.S.C. s.124 (Pub.L.106-252);

"Telephone exchange company" means a carrier providing telephone exchange service in this State;

"Telephone exchange service" means that term as defined in subsection (47) of 47 U.S.C. s.153, as well as any other technology, including but not limited to, voice over Internet telephony or cable telephony, except mobile telecommunications service, that provides access through interconnection to the public switched telephone network to 9-1-1 service; and

"Voice grade access" means a functionality that enables a user of telecommunications services to transmit voice communications, including signalling the network that the caller wishes to place a call, and to receive voice communications, including receiving a signal indicating there is an incoming call.

L.2004,c.48,c.1.