Definitions

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  • As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:
    • (a) “Broadband telecommunications” means any receipt or transmission of electromagnetic signals, including broadcast and non-broadcast signals, cable service, and telecommunications service, over coaxial cable, optical fiber, or any other transmission medium;

    • (b) “Cable service” means the provision by a cable television company of any communication service provided over a cable system, but does not include telephone service;

    • (c) “Cable subscriber” means any person who receives electromagnetic signals distributed over a cable television system;

    • (d) “Cable television company” means any person owning, controlling, operating, managing or leasing a cable television system within the territory;

    • (e) “Cable television system” means a facility which consists of a primary control center used to receive and retransmit, or to originate broadband telecommunications service over coaxial cables, optical fibers, or other transmission media, from the primary control center to a point of reception at the premises of a cable subscriber, whether or not the public right-of-way is used;

    • (f) “Commission” means the Public Services Commission;

    • (g) “Executive Director” means the Executive Director of the Public Services Commission;

    • (h) “Franchise” means any authorization granted to a cable television company pursuant to this chapter to construct, operate, or maintain a cable television system;

    • (i) “Gross subscriber receipts” means any compensation received by a cable television company from its subscribers; gross subscriber receipts shall not include any taxes collected by a cable television company for a governmental unit;

    • (j) “Highway” means every street, road, alley, thoroughfare, way or place of any kind used by the public or open to the use of the public;

    • (k) “Pay cable programming” means programming, exclusive of broadcast signals, carried on a cable television system for which a separate charge is made or designated to the subscribers;

    • (l) “Public utility” means any person whose rates are regulated by the federal or territorial government and who owns or controls poles, ducts, conduits, or rights-of-way used for wire communication. Such term specifically includes any person who is cooperatively organized, or any person owned by the federal or territorial government, but does not include a cable television company or a cable television system;

    • (m) “Rates” means the charges for initial installation and monthly subscriptions, in payment of programs received other than pay cable programming.


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