(a) As used in this chapter: (i) "Affiliated telecommunications companies" means telecommunications companies: (A) In which five percent (5%) or more of the voting stock is controlled or owned, directly or indirectly, by a common principal; or (B) Whose management and policies are found by the commission, after notice and opportunity for hearing, to be controlled by a common principal. (ii) "Commission" means the public service commission of Wyoming; (iii) "Competitive telecommunications services" means those services found by the legislature or the commission to be competitive in accordance with W.S. 37-15-202; (iv) "Essential telecommunications service" means a customer's access to service that is necessary for the origination or termination, or both, of two-way, switched telecommunications for both residential and business service within a local exchange area. Essential telecommunications services are limited to: (A) Repealed by Laws 2025, ch. 135, § 2. (B) Repealed by Laws 2025, ch. 135, § 2. (C) Repealed by Laws 2025, ch. 135, § 2. (D) Repealed by Laws 2025, ch. 135, § 2. (E) Switched access, which for the purposes of this chapter shall mean the switching and transport necessary to connect an interexchange telecommunications company with the local exchange central office for the purpose of originating or terminating, or both, the interexchange telecommunications company's switched telecommunications service; and (F) Local exchange service. (v) "Interexchange telecommunications company" means a person providing telecommunications service to connect end users located in different local exchange areas, but excluding companies which also provide noncompetitive local exchange services; (vi) Repealed By Laws 2007, Ch. 142, § 2. (vii) "Local exchange area" means a geographic territorial unit established by the commission for providing telecommunications services; (viii) "Local exchange service" means residential or business service within a local exchange area capable of providing: (A) Access to interexchange services provided by interexchange telecommunications companies; (B) Single line flat-rate or single line measured residential or business voice service; (C) Transmission service and facilities necessary for the connection between the end user's or customer's premises and local network switching facility including the necessary signaling service used by customers to access essential telecommunications services; (D) Services necessary to connect 911 emergency services to the local network. (ix) "Noncompetitive essential telecommunications services" means those essential telecommunications services at locations which have not been found by the legislature or the commission to be competitive in accordance with W.S. 37-15-202; (x) "Price" means any rate or charge set and published in accordance with this chapter and collected by the telecommunications company for any telecommunications service offered by it to the public or other telecommunications companies; (xi) "Telecommunications company" means a person engaged in the furnishing of telecommunications service within this state; (xii) "Telecommunications service" means the offering or transmitting for hire of telecommunications by means of telecommunications facilities using wire, radio, lightwave or other means; (xiii) Repealed by Laws 2015, ch. 96, § 2. (xiv) "Universal service" means the general availability of local exchange service at an affordable and reasonable price; (xv) Repealed by Laws 2015, ch. 96, § 2. (xvi) Repealed by Laws 2025, ch. 135, § 2. (xvii) "Landline carrier" means a telecommunications company providing local exchange service, or its functional equivalent, to retail end users by means primarily of its own fiber, copper, electric lines or coaxial cable facilities; (xviii) "Broadband internet access service" means a mass-market retail service by wire or radio that provides the capability to transmit data to and receive data from all or substantially all internet endpoints, including any capabilities that are incidental to and enable the operation of the communications service. "Broadband internet access service" shall not include dial-up internet access service; (xix) "Noncompetitive local exchange service" means local exchange service at locations which have not been found by the legislature or the commission to be competitive in accordance with W.S. 37-15-202. (b) Repealed By Laws 2007, Ch. 142, § 2.
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