§ 15-130. Definitions.

Access lines shall mean and be limited to retail billed and collected residential lines; business lines; ISDN lines; PBX trunks and simulated exchange access lines provided by a central office based switching arrangement where all stations served by such simulated exchange access lines are used by a single customer of the provider of such arrangement. Access line may not be construed to include interoffice transport or other transmission media that do not terminate at an end user customer's premises, or to permit duplicate or multiple assessment of access line rates on the provision of a single service or on the multiple communications paths derived from a billed and collected access line. Access line shall not include the following: Wireless telecommunications services, the sale or lease of unbundled loop facilities, special access services, lines providing only data services without voice services processed by a telecommunications local exchange service provider or private line service arrangements.

Franchise shall mean a current franchise granted by the City of Manhattan for any telecommunications services under the procedures and provisions of K.S.A. 12-2001 et seq., as amended.

Local exchange service means local switched telecommunications service within any local exchange service area approved by the state corporation commission, regardless of the medium by which the local telecommunications service is provided. The term local exchange service shall not include wireless communication services.

Provider means a local exchange carrier as defined in K.S.A. 66-1187(h), and amendments thereto, or a telecommunications carrier as defined in K.S.A. 66-1187(m), and amendments thereto.

Telecommunications local exchange service provider means a local exchange carrier as defined in K.S.A. 66-1187(h), and amendments thereto, and a telecommunications carrier as defined in K.S.A. 66-1187(m), and amendments thereto, which does, or in good faith intends to, provide local exchange service. The term telecommunications local exchange service provider does not include an interexchange carrier that does not provide local exchange service, competitive access provider that does not provide local exchange service or any wireless telecommunications local exchange service provider.

Telecommunications service means providing the means of transmission, between or among points specified by the user, of information of the user's choosing, without change in the form or content of the information as sent and received.

(Ord. No. 5025, § 1, 3-4-97; Ord. No. 6375, § 1, 11-18-03)