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capable of exchanging audio, video, data or textual information.
"Telecommunications equipment" does not include computers, except
those components of a computer used primarily and directly as a 2-
way interactive communications device capable of exchanging audio,
video, data or textual information.

 
18.__Telecommunications services.__"Telecommunications
services" means all telecommunications services as described in
this subsection.

 
A. "Telecommunications services" includes:

 
(1)__The provision of 2-way interactive communications
through the use of telecommunications equipment,
exclusive of mobile telecommunications services;

 
(2)__Two-way interactive mobile telecommunications
services provided by a home service provider to a
customer whose place of primary use is within this
State, to the extent those services are associated with
transmissions that originate and terminate within this
State or within any other state.__For purposes of this
paragraph, the term "state" includes the District of
Columbia and any territory or possession of the United
States; and

 
(3) Prepaid calling service.

 
B.__"Telecommunications services" does not include:

 
(1)__Except as otherwise provided by this subsection,
service originating or terminating outside this State;

 
(2)__Access services;

 
(3)__Directory advertising services;

 
(4)__The sale of unbundled network elements for use in
the provision of telecommunications services;

 
(5)__The lease of telecommunications equipment; or

 
(6)__Mobile telecommunications services provided by a
home service provider to a customer whose place of
primary use is not within this State.

 
19.__Video media; video equipment.__"Video media" means
prerecorded magnetic tapes used for noncommercial playback of
images and sound on video equipment, and other electronic audio
and video media that provide for noncommercial interactive


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