The term "equivalent local exchange access line" means any telephone line or service for which a federal subscriber line charge is assessed by a local exchange service provider on the customer's bill or any cellular telephone, communication channel, personal communication system, commercial mobile radio service, cable/broadband services, or any other wire or wireless means that connects the customer to the public switched telecommunications network and provides the customer with ability to reach a public safety answering point by dialing the digits 9-1-1. The term does not include coin-operated public telephone equipment, public telephone equipment operated by card reader, commercial mobile radio service that provides access to a paging or other one-way signaling service, a communication channel suitable only for data transmission, a wireless roaming service or other nonvocal commercial mobile radio service, or a private telecommunications system.

Source Note:The provisions of this section 255.4 adopted to be effective July 11, 1988, 13 TexReg 3291; amended to be effective December 13, 1995, 20 TexReg 10187.