Sec. 64.1600  Definitions.

    (a) Aggregate information. The term ``aggregate information'' means 
collective data that relate to a group or category of services or 
customers, from which individual customer identities or characteristics 
have been removed.
    (b) ANI. The term ``ANI'' (automatic number identification) refers 
to the delivery of the calling party's billing number by a local 
exchange carrier to any interconnecting carrier for billing or routing 
purposes, and to the subsequent delivery of such number to end users.
    (c) Calling party number. The term Calling Party Number refers to 
the subscriber line number or the directory number contained in the 
calling party number parameter of the call set-up message associated 
with an interstate call on a Signaling System 7 network.
    (d) Charge number. The term ``charge number'' refers to the delivery 
of the calling party's billing number in a Signaling System 7 
environment by a local exchange carrier to any interconnecting carrier 
for billing or routing purposes, and to the subsequent delivery of such 
number to end users.
    (e) Privacy indicator. The term Privacy Indicator refers to 
information, contained in the calling party number parameter of the call 
set-up message associated with an interstate call on an Signaling System 
7 network, that indicates whether the calling party authorizes 
presentation of the calling party number to the called party.
    (f) Signaling System 7. The term Signaling System 7 (SS7) refers to 
a carrier to carrier out-of-band signaling network used for call 
routing, billing and management.

[ 60 FR 29490 , June 5, 1995]

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