                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITIONS (§ 59.1-425)

As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#8220;Alternate operator services provider&#8221; means a telecommunications
company, other than a local exchange company or interexchange company
certificated by the State Corporation Commission or an affiliate or agent of
such a company, which provides intrastate long distance operator assisted
services where human or automated call intervention is necessary for obtaining
billing information from the end-user. However, this exception for local
exchange companies and interexchange companies applies only where the rates
charged are those of the local exchange company or interexchange company on file
with the State Corporation Commission.
		&#8220;Person&#8221; means individual and entity.
		&#8220;Public telephone equipment provider&#8221; means any person who makes
available for public use telephone equipment with access to the public switched
network where a charge is made to the user for such use and intrastate local or
long distance service is provided through such equipment by an alternate
operator services provider. This includes but is not limited to hotels, motels,
airports, baccalaureate institutions of higher education, hospitals, and
coin-operated telephone equipment either privately owned or furnished by local
exchange and interstate long distance telephone companies.

HISTORY: 1989, c. 703.