(1) "Communications facilities" shall mean facilities that are used to send and receive audio, images, data, or other information via any electromagnetic media, including wires, cables, microwaves, radio waves, light waves, or any combination of these or similar media.

(2) "Communications service provider" shall mean the Vermont Telecommunications Authority, a company subject to the jurisdiction of the Public Utility Commission under subdivision 203(5) or section 502 of this title, or a broadband service provider who is considered to be an "attaching entity" pursuant to subsection 209(g) of this title.

(3) "Company" or "companies" shall mean an electric or gas utility subject to the jurisdiction of the Public Utility Commission. (Added 2007, No. 131 (Adj. Sess.), § 2.)