§ 1. Definitions.  


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  • For the purposes of this contract franchise ordinance, the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings:

    (1)

    "Access line" 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.

    (2)

    "Access line count" means the number of access lines serving consumers within the corporate boundaries of the City on the last day of each month.

    (3)

    "Access line fee" means the fee determined by the City as set forth in Section 4 of this Ordinance to be used by SBC Kansas in calculating the amount of access line remittance.

    (4)

    "Access line remittance" means the amount to be paid by SBC Kansas to the City, the total of which is calculated by multiplying the access line fee, as determined by the City, by the number of access lines served by SBC Kansas as a telecommunications local exchange service provider within the City for each month in that calendar quarter.

    (5)

    "Communications system" or "System" means the cables, wires, lines, optic fiber, and any associated converters, equipment, or other facilities designed, constructed or occupied by a Provider or others for the purpose of producing, receiving, amplifying or distributing Telecommunications Service to or from locations within the City.

    (6)

    "City" means the City of Wichita, Kansas, the franchisor herein.

    (7)

    "Facilities" means any portion of a System located in, along, over, upon, under, or through the Public Right-of-Way.

    (8)

    "Franchise fee" means the Access Line Fee or fee on Gross Receipts established under this ordinance.

    (9)

    "Gross receipts" means only those receipts collected from within the corporate boundaries of the City and which are derived from the following: (A) Recurring local exchange service for business and residence which includes basic exchange service, touch tone, optional calling features and measured local calls; (B) recurring local exchange access line services for pay phone lines provided by a telecommunications local exchange service provider to all pay phone service providers; (C) local directory assistance revenue; (D) line status verification/busy interrupt revenue; (E) local operator assistance revenue; and (F) nonrecurring local exchange service revenue which shall include customer service for installation of lines, reconnection of service and charge for duplicate bills. All other revenues, including, but not limited to, revenues from extended area service, the sale or lease of unbundled network elements, nonregulated services, carrier and end user access, long distance, wireless telecommunications services, lines providing only data service without voice services processed by a telecommunications local exchange service provider, private line service arrangements, internet, broadband and all other services not wholly local in nature are excluded from gross receipts. Gross receipts shall be reduced by bad debt expenses. Uncollectible and late charges shall not be included within gross receipts. If a telecommunications local exchange service provider offers additional services of a wholly local nature which if in existence on or before July 1, 2002, would have been included with the definition of gross receipts, such services shall be included from the date of the offering of such services in the City.

    (10)

    "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.

    (11)

    "Provider" means a local exchange carrier as defined in subsection (h) of K.S.A. 66-1,187, and amendments thereto, or a telecommunications carrier as defined in subsection (m) of K.S.A. 66-1,187, and amendments thereto.

    (12)

    "Public right-of-way" means only the area of real property in which the City has a dedicated or acquired right-of-way interest in the real property. It shall include the area on, below or above the present and future streets, alleys, avenues, roads, highways, parkways or boulevards dedicated or acquired as right-of-way. The term does not include the airwaves above a right-of-way with regard to wireless telecommunications or other nonwire telecommunications or broadcast service, easements obtained by utilities or private easements in platted subdivisions or tracts.

    (13)

    "SBC Kansas" or "Company" means Southwestern Bell Telephone L.P., the franchisee herein.

    (14)

    "Telecommunications local exchange service provider" means a local exchange carrier as defined in subsection (h) of K.S.A. 66-1,187, and amendments thereto, and a telecommunications carrier as defined in subsection (m) of K.S.A. 66-1,187, 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.

    (15)

    "Telecommunications services" 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.