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services to a customer outside a home service provider's licensed | | service area. |
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| | | 19.__Telecommunications equipment.__"Telecommunications | | equipment" means any 2-way interactive communications device, | | system or process for transmitting or receiving signals and | | 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. |
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| | | 20.__Telecommunications services.__"Telecommunications | | services" means all telecommunications services as described in | | this subsection. |
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| | | A. "Telecommunications services" includes: |
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| | | (1)__The provision of 2-way interactive communications | | through the use of telecommunications equipment, | | exclusive of mobile telecommunications services; and |
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| | | (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. |
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| | | B.__"Telecommunications services" does not include: |
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| | | (1)__Except as otherwise provided by this subsection, | | service originating or terminating outside this State; |
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| | | (3)__Directory advertising services; |
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| | | (4)__The sale of unbundled network elements for use in | | the provision of telecommunications services; |
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| | | (5)__The lease of telecommunications equipment; |
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| | | (6)__Prepaid calling service; or |
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