The following definitions apply for certain terms used generally throughout this price list:

Access Code: A sequence of numbers that, when dialed, connect the caller to the provider of operator services associated with that sequence.

Access Line: A communication channel which is used for access to a Company service point.

Access Line Group: An access line or a number of access lines from a single Customer or authorized user location which have the same termination characteristics and which are arranged in a hunting sequence.

Accounting Code: A multi-digit code which enables a Customer to allocate long distance charges to internal accounts.

Additional Minute: The rate element used to bill for the chargeable time when a call continues beyond the initial minute.

Aggregator: Any person or entity, that is not an operator service provider and that in the ordinary course of its operations makes telephones available to the public or transient users of its premises, or university for telephone calls between points within this state that are specified by the user using an operator service provider.

Analog Transmissions: Denotes information transmitted in the form of continuously varying signal current and/or voltage.

Answer Supervision: An electrical signal fed back up the line by the Local Exchange Company at the distant end of a long distance call to indicate positively the call has been answered by the called phone.

Application for Service: A standard order form which includes all pertinent billing, technical, and other descriptive information which will enable the carrier to provide the communication service as required.

Authorization Code: A multi-digit code which enables a Customer to access Company's network and enables the Company to identify the use of proper billing.

Authorized User: A person, firm, corporation, or other legal entity which is authorized by the Customer to be connected to the service of the Customer. An Authorized User(s) must be named in the application for service.

Autodialer: A device which allows the Customer to dial pre-programmed telephone numbers, such as the Company access number or authorization codes, by pushing one or two buttons. Dialers can be bought as a separate device and added to a phone.