SEI DATA, INC
Tariff P.S.C.I No.
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DEFINITIONS
MADISON EXCHANGE
    
ACCESS LINE:
            A circuit directly connecting the telecommunications facilities at a customer’s premises with the central office. Service on such circuits is normally offered as:
a. individual or party line main telephone service
b. rotary or trunk hunting line service
c. trunk service, which is an offering of central office lines which connect a manual or automatic switching system at the customer’s premises to the central office.
    
ACCESSORIES:
            Devices which are mechanically attached to, or used with, the facilities furnished by the Telephone Company and which are independent of, and not electrically connected to the conductors in the communications path of the Telephone Company system.
    
ADDITIONAL LISTING:
            Any listing of a name or information in connection with a customer’s telephone number beyond that to which he is entitled in connections with his regular service.
    
ADVANCE PAYMENT:
            An amount usually in lieu of a deposit that the customer is required to pay to the Telephone Company before service is installed.
    
BASE RATE AREA:
            That portion of an exchange area as determined from time to time by the utility wherein urban grades of service are provided at uniform rates.
    
CHANNEL:
            A path for communication between two or more stations or Telephone Company offices, furnished in such a manner as the Telephone Company may elect, whether by wire, radio, or a combination thereof and whether or not by single facility or route.
    
CIRCUIT:
            The term applied to a channel used for the transmission of electrical energy in furnishing telephone service.
    
CLASS OF SERVICE:
            The various categories of main station services furnished to a customer, including rates and the location where various rates apply.
    
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Effective: December 1, 1999
Officer: Mike Leach
Title: General Manager