Extended area service definition

Extended area service means telephone service, furnished at flat rates, between end user customers located within an exchange area and all of the end user customers of an additional exchange area. Extended area service is only for calls both originating and terminating within the defined extended area.
Extended area service or “EAS” means a group of two or more exchanges, as defined in the Telephone Company's local exchange tariff or as implemented through the Telephone Company’s practice, among which a Telephone Company customer of either exchange may make landline-to-landline calls without incurring a toll charge.
Extended area service or “EAS” is a type of telephone service (both optional and non-optional) defined in BellSouth tariffs whereby subscribers of a given exchange may complete calls to and, where provided by the tariff, receive messages from one or more exchanges without the application of long distance message telecommunications charges.

Examples of Extended area service in a sentence

  • Extended area service is only for calls both originating and terminating within the defined extended area.

  • Extended area service benefited the residents of exchanges who could petition to expand their local calling area to encompass neighboring exchanges including contiguous metropolitan exchanges and pay an additional fixed monthly charge, in lieu of long distance rates.

  • Extended area service (EAS) -- A telephone switching and trunking arrangement which provides for optional calling service by dominant certificated telecommunications utilities within a local access and transport area and between two contiguous exchanges or between an exchange and a contiguous metropolitan exchange local calling area.

  • Extended area service (EAS) allows communities to expand their local toll-free calling area.


More Definitions of Extended area service

Extended area service or “EAS” means telephone service permitting persons in a given exchange to place and receive calls from one (1) or more other exchanges at monthly flat or measured rates without being assessed toll message charges for each message.
Extended area service. ("EAS") is intraLATA traffic treated as "local" traffic between exchanges (rather than as "toll" traffic) as established by the Commission and as reflected in the effective U S WEST tariffs.
Extended area service. (“EAS”) means a service offered by ILECs enabling a customer within an exchange to make calls to another exchange without the application of long distance charges.
Extended area service means a geographic area composed of more than one local exchange
Extended area service or “EAS” is as defined and specified in ALLTEL’s then current Tariff.
Extended area service means telephone service, furnished at flat rates, between
Extended area service or "EAS" is as defined and specified in LTC's then current General Customer Services Tariff.