As used in this rule:

1. 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;
2. B. basket means a collection of retail telecommunications services grouped together in order to calculate permissible changes in the price ceilings for the services;
3. 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;
4. D. commission notice means a letter of notice filed by a mid-size carrier at the New Mexico public regulation commission;
5. E. cost means the cost incurred by a mid-size carrier to provide a service in New Mexico;
6. 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;
7. G. effective price means the current tariffed price for a retail telecommunications service;
8. 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;
9. 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;
10. 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;
11. K. package means the combination of two or more regulated services in a single retail product offering by a mid-size carrier;
12. L. price ceiling means the maximum price at which a basic or non-basic service may be offered;
13. M. price floor means the lowest price at which a basic or non-basic service may be offered;
14. 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;
15. O. service area refers to the territory served by a mid-size carrier within a single wire center.

[17.11.23.7 NMAC - N, 4-1-2006]