Delaware Code Title 26. Public Utilities § 923. Definitions

(1) “Carrier” shall mean any person or entity offering to the public telecommunications service that originates or terminates within the State;  provided, however, that the term “carrier” shall not include:

(2) “Change order” shall mean any order changing a customer's designated carrier for local exchange service, intraLATA intrastate toll service or both.

(3) “Commission” shall mean the Delaware Public Service Commission.

(4) “Customer” shall mean a person who subscribes to local exchange services, intraLATA intrastate toll service or both.

(5) “Executing carrier” shall mean a carrier that effects a request that a customer's carrier be changed.

(6) “Letter of agency” shall mean a separate document, or easily separable document, signed and dated by the customer or prospective customer, the sole purpose of which is to authorize a carrier to initiate a preferred carrier change.

(7) “Preferred carrier” shall mean any carrier providing service to a customer at the time this subchapter is enacted, or such carrier as the customer thereafter designates as the customer's preferred carrier.

(8) “Submitting carrier” shall mean any carrier that requests on behalf of a customer that the customer's carrier be changed, and seeks to provide retail services to an end user customer.