Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 920 – Definitions
(a) The term “automatic number identification service” means an access signaling protocol in common use by common carriers that uses an identifying signal associated with the use of a subscriber’s telephone to provide billing information or other information to the local exchange carrier or any other interconnecting carriers.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 920
- system: shall mean a facility within this State which is constructed in whole or in part in, on, under or over any highway, road, street, alley, or other public place and which is operated to perform the service of receiving and amplifying the signals of 1 or more radio and/or television broadcasting stations and distributing such signals by cable, wire or other means to members of the public who subscribe to such service; provided that nothing herein is intended to prohibit any system from engaging in any other activity not expressly prohibited by law; except that such definition shall not include (i) any system which serves fewer than 50 subscribers; or (ii) any system which serves only the residents of 1 or more apartment dwellings or mobile home or trailer parks under common ownership, control or management, and commercial establishments located on the premises of such dwellings; or (iii) telephone, telegraph or electric utilities in those cases where the activity of such utility in connection with a cable system is limited to leasing or renting to cable systems, cables, wires, poles, towers or other electronic equipment or rights to use real property as part of, or for use in connection with, the operation of a cable system. See Delaware Code Title 26 Sec. 102
(b) The term “blocking” means a service that allows the originator of a call to prevent or control the transmission of information that identifies the originator to the recipient of the call.
(c) The term “caller identification” means the transmission of information that identifies the originator of a communication to the recipient of the communication via an electronic signal which is decoded by a customer provided display unit which displays, records or forwards the caller’s telephone number or other identifying information. Such term shall not include:
(1) An internal office system, including but not limited to, a centrex or private branch exchange (PBX) system or virtual private network;
(2) An identification system used for emergencies, such as an emergency telephone line used by a public agency or a 911 emergency telephone service;
(3) Any identification service provided with legally sanctioned call tracing or tapping procedures; or
(4) Any automatic number identification service or technology.