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“complainant” means a person who has filed a complaint with the Authority in accordance with these
Rules;
“consumer” means a natural person who is was or may in the future be a user of telecommunication
services;
“customer” means a retail end user customer of the provider of a telecommunications service;
“customer service” means a telecommunications or related service, which is facilitated in whole or in part
by interconnection;
“days” shall not include Saturday, Sundays and public holidays where reference is made to time not
exceeding 10 days unless otherwise stated;
“decisionmaking personnel” means any Board member: officer or employee of the Authority who may
reasonably be expected to be involved in formulating a decision, rule regulation or order in a proceeding;
“discovery” means a compulsory disclosure by a party to a proceeding, of facts or documents on which
the other party wishes to rely;
“end user” means any person or entity that is was or may in the future be a user
of telecommunication services;
“essential service” means an interconnect service declared by the Authority in writing to be an essential
service for the purposes of the Rules;
“ex parte” means a presentation that, if written, is not served on the parties to the proceeding: or if oral is
made without advance notice to the parties and without opportunity for them to be present;
“ex parte presentation” means a communication directed to the merits or outcome of a proceeding,
including any attachments to a written communication, or documents shown in connection with an oral
presentation directed to the merits or outcome of a proceeding, but does not include:
(a)
communications which are inadvertently or casually made;
(b)
communications by parties to an informal consumer complaint proceeding;
(c)
inquiries concerning compliance with procedural requirements if the procedural matters is
not a substantive area of controversy in the proceeding;
(d)
presentations made with respect to issues raised in a notice of inquiry, unless the issues
addressed in the presentation also address issues raised in a proceeding that are not
excluded by this Rule;
(e)
statements made by decisionmaking personnel that are limited to providing publicly
available information about pending proceedings; and
(f)
inquiries relating solely to the status of a proceeding, including inquiries as to the
approximate time that action in a proceeding may be taken, unless that presentation
constitutes a status inquiry which states or implies a view as to the merits or outcome of
the proceeding or a preference for a particular party or which states why timing is
important to a particular party or indicates a view as to the date by which a proceeding
should be resolved, or which otherwise is intended to address the merits or outcome of a
proceeding or to influence the timing of a proceeding;