Section R14-2-1901. Definitions

A.      “Authorized Carrier” means any Telecommunications Com- pany that submits, on behalf of a Customer, a change in the Customer’s selection of a provider of telecommunications ser- vice, with the Subscriber’s authorization verified in accor- dance with the procedures specified in this Article.

B.       “Commission” means Arizona Corporation Commission.

C.      “Customer” means the person or entity in whose name service is rendered, as evidenced by the signature on the application or contract for service, or by the receipt or payment of bills regu- larly issued in their name regardless of the identity of the actual user of service.

D.      “Executing Telecommunications Carrier” means a Telecom- munications Company that effects a request that a Subscriber’s Telecommunications Company be changed.

E.       “Letter of Agency” means written authorization, including internet enabled with electronic signature, by a Subscriber authorizing a Telecommunications Company to act on the Subscriber’s behalf to change the Subscriber’s Telecommuni- cations Company.

Corporation Commission – Fixed Utilities

F.       “Subscriber” means the Customer identified in the account records of a Telecommunications Company; and any person authorized by such Customer to change telecommunications services or to charge services to the account; or any person contractually or otherwise lawfully authorized to represent such Customer.

G.      “Telecommunications Company” means a public service cor- poration, as defined in the Arizona Constitution, Article 15, § 2, which provides telecommunications services within  the state of Arizona and over which the Commission has jurisdic- tion.

H.      “Unauthorized Carrier” means any Telecommunications Com- pany that submits, on behalf of a Customer, a change in the Customer’s selection of a provider of telecommunications ser- vice without the subscriber’s authorization verified in accor- dance with the procedures specified in this Article.

I.        “Unauthorized Change” (“slamming”) means a change in a Telecommunications Company submitted on behalf of a Sub- scriber that was not authorized in accordance with R14-2-1904 or not verified in accordance with R14-2-1905.

J.        “Unauthorized Charge” means any charge incurred as a result of an Unauthorized Change.

Historical Note

New Section made by final rulemaking at 10 A.A.R.

E. If a Telecommunications Company is selling more than one type of service, for example, local, intraLATA, or interLATA, it may obtain authorizations from the Subscriber for all ser- vices authorized during a single contact.

Historical Note

New Section made by final rulemaking at 10 A.A.R.

2409, effective July 23, 2004 (Supp. 04-2).