KRS 65.7621: Definitions for KRS 65.7621 to 65.7643.

As used in KRS 65.7621 to 65.7643, unless the context requires otherwise:

(1) "Administrator" means the person who serves as the state 911 coordinator, the

executive director of the Kentucky 911 Services Board, and the state administrator

of CMRS emergency telecommunications under KRS 65.7625;

(2) "Automatic location identification", or "ALI" means a feature by which the location

or estimated location of the calling party is made available to a PSAP in accordance

with applicable FCC rules and regulations;

(3) "Automatic number identification", or "ANI" means a feature that allows for the

automatic display of the 911 caller's ten -digit number, or equivalent, in accordance

with applicable FCC rules and regulations;

(4) "Board" means the Kentucky 911 Services Board;

(5) "CMRS" means commercial mobile radio service under Sections 3(27) and 332(d)

of the Federal Telecommunications Act of 1996, 47 U.S.C. secs. 151 et seq., and

the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993, as it existed on August 10, 1993.

The term includes the term "wireless" and service provided by any wireless real

time two -way voice communication device, including radio -telephone

communications used in cellular telephone service, personal communications

service, and the functional or competitive equivalent of a radio -telephone

communications line used in cellular telephone service, a personal communications

service, or a network radio access line;

(6) "CMRS connection" means a mobile handset telephone number assigned to a

CMRS customer;

(7) "CMRS customer" means an end user to whom a mobile handset telephone number

is assigned and to whom CMRS is provided in return for compensation;

(8) "CMRS Fund" means the commercial mobile radio service emergency

telecommunications fund;

(9) "CMRS provider" mea ns a person or entity who provides CMRS to an end user.

The term includes both facilities-based resellers and nonfacilities-based resellers;

(10) "CMRS service charges" means the CMRS postpaid service charge, the CMRS

prepaid service charge, and the CMRS s ervice charge fee levied under KRS

65.7636;

(11) "CMRS postpaid service charge" means the CMRS emergency telephone service

charge fee levied under KRS 65.7629(3) and collected under KRS 65.7635;

(12) "CMRS prepaid service charge" means the fee imposed on p repaid wireless

telecommunications service under KRS 65.7634 and collected under KRS 142.100

to 142.135;

(13) "Core services" or "next generation core services":

(a) Means the base set of services needed to process a 911 service request within

a next generation 911 environment;

(b) Is limited to the functional elements essential to routing emergency calls based

on location information through a managed emergency servic es Internet

protocol network infrastructure; and

(c) Includes only the services, and not the network on which they operate;

(14) "FCC order" means the Order of the Federal Communications Commission, FCC

Docket No. 94 -102, adopted effective October 1, 1996, including any subsequent

amendments or modifications thereof;

(15) "Local exchange carrier" or "LEC" means any person or entity who is authorized to

provide telephone exchange service or exchange access in the Commonwealth;

(16) "Local government" means a ny city, county, charter county, or urban -county

government of the Commonwealth, or any other governmental entity maintaining a

PSAP;

(17) "Mobile telephone handset telephone number" means the ten (10) digit number

assigned to a CMRS connection;

(18) "Next generation 911" means a 911 system where any device capable of making a

911 emergency request uses digital technology through managed emergency

services Internet protocol networks composed of functional elements and databases

that replicate enhanced 911 f eatures and functions while providing additional

multimedia capabilities for the PSAP. "Next generation 911" includes any

technology, functions, capabilities, best practices, or processes, either currently

existing or later developed, that will be used dur ing and after the transition of the

delivery of 911 services from analog to digital technology;

(19) "Prepaid wireless telecommunications service" means a wireless

telecommunications service that, if purchased, is required to be paid for in advance

and is either sold in predetermined units, dollars, or time which decline with use in

a known amount, or is sold for unlimited use during a predetermined period of time;

"Prepaid wireless telecommunications service" includes service provided by prepaid

wireless providers approved as eligible telecommunications companies by the

Kentucky Public Service Commission to participate in the wireless low -income

Lifeline program;

(20) "Prepaid wireless telecommunications service provider" means a person or entity

that prov ides prepaid wireless telecommunications service as authorized by a

license issued by the FCC;

(21) "Proprietary information" means information, including customer lists and other

related information, technology descriptions, technical information, or trade secrets;

(22) "Pseudo-automatic number identification" means a wireless enhanced 911 service

capability that enables the automatic display of the number of the cell site or cell

face;

(23) "Public safety answering point" or "PSAP" means a communications facility that is

assigned the responsibility to receive 911 calls originating in a given area and, as

appropriate, to dispatch public safety services or to extend, transfer, or relay 911

calls to appropriate public safety agencies;

(24) "Purchaser" means a person who purchases prepaid wireless telecommunications

service in a retail transaction;

(25) "Retail transaction" means the purchase of prepaid wireless telecommunications

service from a retailer for any purpose other than resale;

(26) "Retailer" means a person who sells prepaid wireless telecommunications service to

any person for a purpose other than resale;

(27) "Service connection" means the transmission, conveyance, or routing of voice, data,

video, text, or any other information signal of the purch aser's choosing by any

medium or method now in existence or later devised with the ability to directly

connect the user to 911 emergency services;

(28) "Service supplier" means a person or entity who provides local exchange telephone

service to a telephone subscriber;

(29) "Tier III CMRS provider" means a non-nationwide commercial mobile radio service

provider with no more than five hundred thousand (500,000) subscribers as of

December 31, 2001; and

(30) "Wireless enhanced 911 system," "wireless E911 system ," "wireless enhanced 911

service," or "wireless E911 service" means an emergency telephone system that

provides the end user of the CMRS connection with wireless 911 service and, in

addition, directs 911 calls to appropriate public safety answering points based on the

geographical location from which the call originated and provides the capability for

automatic number identification and automatic location identification features in

accordance with the requirements of the FCC order.