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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".02" citation="COMAR 20.45.09.02" title_num="20" subtitle_num="45" chapter_num="09" heading="Definitions.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>In this chapter, the following terms have the meanings indicated.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Terms Defined.</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>“Dial around” means a method used by a pay phone user to purposely bypass a pay phone company's local exchange or interexchange telephone company services.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>“Effective rate per switched access minute of use” means a rate that results from dividing the total revenue billed over a specific period of time for all rate elements contained in the intrastate switched access tariff of a facilities-based carrier by the total switched access minutes of use recorded by that carrier for the same time period.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>“Facilities-based carrier” means a local exchange telephone company owning or leasing facilities that consists of switching and transmission equipment used to carry voice or data traffic within Maryland.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>“Intrastate” means services, traffic, or facilities that originate and terminate within Maryland.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>Local Exchange Telephone Company.</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>“Local exchange telephone company” means a public service company that:</text>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>Owns telephone lines to receive, transmit, or communicate voice or data traffic within Maryland; or</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(ii)">
          <text>Leases, licenses, or sells telephone lines to receive, transmit, or communicate voice or data traffic within Maryland.</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>“Local exchange telephone company” does not include a public service company that provides service only between telephone exchange areas.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(6)">
      <text>“Interexchange telephone company” means a public service company that receives, transmits, or communicates voice or data traffic between telephone exchange areas within Maryland.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(7)">
      <text>“Switched access service” means the service provided by a local exchange telephone company to an interexchange telephone company to originate and terminate in-State long distance calls.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>