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Federal Communications Commission § 53.3 PART 53—SPECIAL PROVISIONS Affiliate. An affiliate is a person that CONCERNING BELL OPERATING (directly or indirectly) owns or con- COMPANIES trols, is owned or controlled by, or is under common ownership or control Subpart A—General Information with, another person. For purposes of this part, the term ‘‘own’’ means to Sec. own an equity interest (or the equiva- 53.1 Basis and purpose. lent thereof) of more than 10 percent. 53.3 Terms and definitions. AT&T Consent Decree. The AT&T Con- Subpart B—Bell Operating Company Entry sent Decree is the order entered August Into InterLATA Services [Reserved] 24, 1982, in the antitrust action styled United States v. Western Electric, Civil Subpart C—Separate Affiliate; Safeguards Action No. 82–0192, in the United States District Court for the District of Co- 53.201 Services for which a section 272 affil- iate is required. lumbia, and any judgment or order 53.203 Structural and transactional require- with respect to such action entered on ments. or after August 24, 1982. 53.205 Fulfillment of certain requests. [Re- Bell Operating Company (BOC). The served] term Bell operating company 53.207 Successor or assign. (1) Means any of the following com- 53.209 Biennial audit. 53.211 Audit planning. panies: Bell Telephone Company of Ne- 53.213 Audit analysis and evaluation. vada, Illinois Bell Telephone Company, Indiana Bell Telephone Company, In- Subpart D—Manufacturing by Bell corporated, Michigan Bell Telephone Operating Companies Company, New England Telephone and 53.301 [Reserved] Telegraph Company, New Jersey Bell Telephone Company, New York Tele- Subpart E—Electronic Publishing by Bell phone Company, U S West Communica- Operating Companies tions Company, South Central Bell Telephone Company, Southern Bell 53.401 [Reserved] Telephone and Telegraph Company, Subpart F—Alarm Monitoring Services Southwestern Bell Telephone Com- pany, The Bell Telephone Company of 53.501 [Reserved] Pennsylvania, The Chesapeake and Po- AUTHORITY: Sections 1–5, 7, 201–05, 218, 251, tomac Telephone Company, The Chesa- 253, 271–75, 48 Stat. 1070, as amended, 1077; 47 peake and Potomac Telephone Com- U.S.C. 151–55, 157, 201–05, 218, 251, 253, 271–75, pany of Maryland, The Chesapeake and unless otherwise noted. Potomac Telephone Company of Vir- SOURCE: 62 FR 2967, Jan. 21, 1997, unless ginia, The Chesapeake and Potomac otherwise noted. Telephone Company of West Virginia, The Diamond State Telephone Com- Subpart A—General Information pany, The Ohio Bell Telephone Com- pany, The Pacific Telephone and Tele- § 53.1 Basis and purpose. graph Company, or Wisconsin Tele- (a) Basis. The rules in this part are phone Company; and issued pursuant to the Communica- (2) Includes any successor or assign tions Act of 1934, as amended. of any such company that provides (b) Purpose. The purpose of the rules wireline telephone exchange service; in this part is to implement sections but 271 and 272 of the Communications Act (3) Does not include an affiliate of of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. 271 and any such company, other than an affil- 272. iate described in paragraphs (1) or (2) of this definition. § 53.3 Terms and definitions. In-Region InterLATA service. In-region Terms used in this part have the fol- interLATA service is interLATA service lowing meanings: that originates in any of a BOC’s in-re- Act. The Act means the Communica- gion states, which are the states in tions Act of 1934, as amended. which the BOC or any of its affiliates 115 VerDate Sep<11>2014 10:11 Nov 23, 2015 Jkt 235211 PO 00000 Frm 00125 Fmt 8010 Sfmt 8010 Y:\SGML\235211.XXX 235211 jstallworth on DSK7TPTVN1PROD with CFR.