[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 47, Volume 3]
[Revised as of October 1, 2008]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 47CFR64.708]

[Page 281-282]
 
                       TITLE 47--TELECOMMUNICATION
 
        CHAPTER I--FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED)
 
PART 64_MISCELLANEOUS RULES RELATING TO COMMON CARRIERS--
Table of Contents
 
    Subpart G_Furnishing of Enhanced Services and Customer-Premises 
   Equipment by Bell Operating Companies; Telephone Operator Services
 
Sec. 64.708  Definitions.

    As used in Sec. Sec. 64.703 through 64.707 of this part and Sec. 
68.318 of this chapter (47 CFR 64.703-64.707, 68.318):
    (a) Access code means a sequence of numbers that, when dialed, 
connect the

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caller to the provider of operator services associated with that 
sequence;
    (b) Aggregator means any person that, in the ordinary course of its 
operations, makes telephones available to the public or to transient 
users of its premises, for interstate telephone calls using a provider 
of operator services;
    (c) Call splashing means the transfer of a telephone call from one 
provider of operator services to another such provider in such a manner 
that the subsequent provider is unable or unwilling to determine the 
location of the origination of the call and, because of such inability 
or unwillingness, is prevented from billing the call on the basis of 
such location;
    (d) CMRS aggregator means an aggregator that, in the ordinary course 
of its operations, makes telephones available to the public or to 
transient users of its premises for interstate telephone calls using a 
provider of CMRS operator services;
    (e) CMRS operator services means operator services provided by means 
of a commercial mobile radio service as defined in section 20.3 of this 
chapter.
    (f) Consumer means a person initiating any interstate telephone call 
using operator services. In collect calling arrangements handled by a 
provider of operator services, the term consumer also includes the party 
on the terminating end of the call. For bill-to-third-party calling 
arrangements handled by a provider of operator services, the term 
consumer also includes the party to be billed for the call if the latter 
is contacted by the operator service provider to secure billing 
approval.
    (g) Equal access has the meaning given that term in Appendix B of 
the Modification of Final Judgment entered by the United States District 
Court on August 24, 1982, in United States v. Western Electric, Civil 
Action No. 82-0192 (D.D.C. 1982), as amended by the Court in its orders 
issued prior to October 17, 1990;
    (h) Equal access code means an access code that allows the public to 
obtain an equal access connection to the carrier associated with that 
code;
    (i) Operator services means any interstate telecommunications 
service initiated from an aggregator location that includes, as a 
component, any automatic or live assistance to a consumer to arrange for 
billing or completion, or both, of an interstate telephone call through 
a method other than:
    (1) Automatic completion with billing to the telephone from which 
the call originated; or
    (2) Completion through an access code used by the consumer, with 
billing to an account previously established with the carrier by the 
consumer;
    (j) Presubscribed provider of operator services means the interstate 
provider of operator services to which the consumer is connected when 
the consumer places a call using a provider of operator services without 
dialing an access code;
    (k) Provider of CMRS operator services means a provider of operator 
services that provides CMRS operator services;
    (l) Provider of operator services means any common carrier that 
provides operator services or any other person determined by the 
Commission to be providing operator services.

[56 FR 18524, Apr. 23, 1991; 56 FR 25721, June 5, 1991, as amended at 61 
FR 14981, Apr. 4, 1996; 63 FR 43041, Aug. 11, 1998; 67 FR 2820, Jan. 22, 
2002]