4 USC 124 – Definitions
In sections 116 through 126 of this title:
(1)
(2)
(A)
(i) the person or entity that contracts with the home service provider for mobile telecommunications services; or
(ii) if the end user of mobile telecommunications services is not the contracting party, the end user of the mobile telecommunications service, but this clause applies only for the purpose of determining the place of primary use.
(B) The term “customer” does not include—
(i) a reseller of mobile telecommunications service; or
(ii) a serving carrier under an arrangement to serve the customer outside the home service provider’s licensed service area.
(3)
(A) responsible for providing an electronic database prescribed in section 119(a) if the State has not provided such electronic database; and
(B) approved by municipal and county associations or leagues of the State whose responsibility it would otherwise be to provide such database prescribed by sections 116 through 126 of this title.
(4)
(5)
(6)
(7)
(8)
(A) the residential street address or the primary business street address of the customer; and
(B) within the licensed service area of the home service provider.
(9)
(10)
(A) means a provider who purchases telecommunications services from another telecommunications service provider and then resells, uses as a component part of, or integrates the purchased services into a mobile telecommunications service; and
(B) does not include a serving carrier with which a home service provider arranges for the services to its customers outside the home service provider’s licensed service area.
(11)
(12)
Terms Used In 4 USC 124
- association: when used in reference to a corporation, shall be deemed to embrace the words "successors and assigns of such company or association" in like manner as if these last-named words, or words of similar import, were expressed. See 1 USC 5
- Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- county: includes a parish, or any other equivalent subdivision of a State or Territory of the United States. See 1 USC 2
- individual: shall include every infant member of the species homo sapiens who is born alive at any stage of development. See 1 USC 8
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- State: means a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any other territory or possession of the United States. See 1 USC 7