Local usage definition

Local usage means an amount of minutes of use of exchange services, prescribed by the FCC, provided free of charge to end users.”60 The FCC has not specified a minimum amount of local usage that an ETC must offer. Essex will meet the local usage requirement by including local usage in its rate plans. The Company will comply with any minimum local usage requirements adopted by the FCC or this Commission.
Local usage means an amount of exchange service, prescribed by the commission, provided free of charge to end users.
Local usage means the usage necessary to place and receive calls within a local calling area in which the customer is located.

Examples of Local usage in a sentence

  • Notwithstanding the foregoing, where the terminating Party has message recording technology that identifies the jurisdiction of traffic terminated as defined in this Agreement, such information, in lieu of the PLU factor, shall at the terminating Party’s option, be utilized to determine the appropriate Local usage compensation to be paid.


More Definitions of Local usage

Local usage means an amount of exchange service, pre- scribed by the commission, provided free of charge to end users.
Local usage means an amount of minutes of use of exchange service provided free of charge to end users. The FCC has specified that a local usage plan is acceptable if it is “comparable to the one offered by the incumbent LEC in the service areas for which the applicant seeks designation.”5 This comparability analysis must proceed on a case-by- case basis, and take account of value-added capabilities and services incorporated into a plan.6
Local usage means an amount of minutes of use of exchange service, prescribed by the Commission, provided free of charge to end users;

Related to Local usage

  • Percent Local Usage (“PLU”) is a calculation which represents the ratio of the local minutes to the sum of local and intraLATA toll minutes between exchange carriers sent over Local Interconnection Trunks. Directory assistance, BLV/BLVI, 900, and 976 transiting calls from other exchange carriers and switched access calls are not included in the calculation of PLU.

  • Revolver Usage means, as of any date of determination, the sum of (a) the amount of outstanding Advances, plus (b) the amount of the Letter of Credit Usage.