The term "local exchange access line" or "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 line from a telecommunications service provider to an Internet service provider for the Internet service provider's data modem lines used only to provide its Internet access service and that are not capable of transmitting voice messages, a wireless roaming service or other nonvocal commercial mobile radio service, a private telecommunications system, or a wireless telecommunications connection subject to Texas Health and Safety Code, §771.0711.

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; amended to be effective June 8, 1999, 24 TexReg 4226; amended to be effective November 21, 1999, 24 TexReg 10045.