196.207 Telephone caller identification services.

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(1)Definitions. In this section:

(a)“Inbound wide-area telecommunications service” means a telecommunications service that allows a subscriber to the service to receive telephone calls from selected service areas at no charge to the person originating the telephone call.

(b)“Pay-per-call service” means a telecommunications service that permits simultaneous calling by a large number of callers to a single telephone number and for which the customer is assessed, on a per-call or a per-time-interval basis, a charge that is greater than or in addition to the charge for the transmission of the call. “Pay-per-call service” does not include a directory assistance or conference call service that is offered by a telecommunications utility and does not include a telecommunications service for which the customer charge is dependent on the existence of a presubscription relationship.

(c)“Telephone caller identification service” means a telecommunications service offered by a telecommunications utility that identifies a telephone line identification for an access line that is used by a person to originate a telephone call to a subscriber to the service.

(d)“Telephone line identification” means the number of or other information associated with an access line that can be used to identify the access line or the subscriber to the line.

(2)Conditions for service. The commission may not approve a schedule or tariff that permits a telephone caller identification service to be offered in this state unless the schedule or tariff provides all of the following:

(a)For the 60-day period immediately preceding the first day on which a telephone caller identification service is operational in a geographical area, the telecommunications utility offering the service shall conduct an informational campaign to describe the telephone caller identification service to its access line customers within that area. The telecommunications utility informational campaign shall include all of the following information:

1. That the utility is offering telephone caller identification service and the date on which the service becomes operational.

2. That an access line customer may choose not to have the customer’s telephone line identification identified to telephone caller identification service subscribers on an individual call basis without charge.