Terms defined in SDCL 49-31-1 have the same meaning in this chapter. In addition, terms used in this chapter and SDCL chapter 49-31 mean:

1. (1) "Access charges," the amount one local exchange telecommunications company charges an interexchange carrier for use of telecommunications facilities to originate or terminate calls within its service area;
2. (2) "Alternative operator service provider (AOS)," a corporation, company, partnership, person, or any entity, other than the serving local exchange or interexchange carrier, providing a connection by contract to intrastate or interstate long distance or to local services from such places as hotels, motels, hospitals, campuses, and customer-owned pay telephones;
3. (3) "Call blocking," denying the completion of a call which would allow the caller to reach a long distance telephone company from an AOS company;
4. (4) "Customer," an individual, partnership, association, joint-stock company, trust, corporation, governmental entity, or any other entity which subscribes to telecommunications services, including interexchange carriers and end users;
5. (5) "Deregulation," partial or total exemption from regulation by the commission of a service, rate, product, or practice;
6. (6) "End user," a person or entity, except a telecommunications company, which utilizes telecommunications services for its own use;
7. (7) "Extended area service (EAS)," a telecommunications service that expands a local calling area to include another local exchange area;
8. (8) "Interexchange carrier," a telecommunications company which renders telecommunications service between points which are not in the same local calling area established in the tariff of a local exchange carrier;
9. (9) "Interstate access," the ability of interexchange carriers to utilize the facilities of a local exchange carrier for the origination and termination of interexchange interstate interLATA calls;
10. (10) "Intrastate access," the ability of a telecommunications company to utilize the facilities of the local exchange carrier for the origination and termination of intrastate interexchange calls;
11. (11) "Intrastate telecommunications services," telecommunications services that are functionally intrastate, with points of origination and termination within South Dakota, regardless of the specific routing of the affected traffic;
12. (12) "Local calling area," a geographical area, including extended area service (EAS) points as defined in the telephone company's local exchange service tariff, in which an end user may complete a call without incurring long distance charges;
13. (13) "Resale," the subscription to local or long distance telecommunications services and facilities by an entity which then offers them for sale to others with or without enhancements;
14. (14) "Reseller," a person or entity reselling local or long distance telecommunications services.

Source: 16 SDR 106, effective December 27, 1989; 25 SDR 89, effective December 27, 1998.

General Authority: SDCL 49-31-3 , 49-31-5(10)(11)(12)(14).

Law Implemented: SDCL 49-31-3 , 49-31-5.