§ 3001. Definitions

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the following words shall have the following meanings:

(1) "Cable television" means cable television system as defined in chapter 13 of this title.

(2) "Community development" means the economic and social development of communities through commercial and industrial development, creating job opportunities and training for rural residents, and providing better housing, health, educational, recreational, and other rural community facilities.

(3) "Cooperative" means a corporation organized under this chapter or which becomes subject to this chapter in the manner hereinafter provided.

(4) "Energy" includes electrical, propane, natural gas, fossil fuels, and other forms of energy.

(5) "Interactive media" means communications media that is regularly used to transmit information in two directions.

(6) "Internet" means collectively the computer and telecommunications facilities, including equipment and operating software, that comprise the interconnected network of networks that employ the transmission control protocol/Internet protocol, or any predecessor or successor protocols to such protocol, to communicate information of any kind, whether by wire or wireless means.

(7) "Internet access" means service connecting customers to the Internet.

(8) "Person" means a natural person, firm, association, corporation, business trust, partnership, federal agency, state or political subdivision or agency thereof, or a body politic or other entity.

(9) "Telecommunications" means one or more of the following as defined in chapter 88 of this title:

(A) basic telecommunications service;

(B) private network;

(C) public switched network;

(D) telecommunications service;

(E) telecommunications service provider. (Amended 1999, No. 143 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)