A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT amending the definition of broadband service TO ENCOURAGE DEPLOYMENT OF COMPETITIVE INTERNET PROTOCOL‑ENABLED SERVICES.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 62‑2(b1) reads as rewritten:
"(b1)	Broadband service provided by public utilities as defined in G.S. 62‑3(23)a.6. is sufficiently competitive and shall not be regulated by the Commission. Nothing herein shall be construed to modify the authority of any entity to enforce applicable State or federal statutes or regulations relating to switched access rates or other intercarrier compensation rates for interexchange services provided by a local exchange telecommunications company, or to modify any authority of the State or a political subdivision of the State with respect to cable services consistent with Article 42 of Chapter 66 of the General Statutes and Title VI of the Communications Act of 1934, 47 U.S.C. § 521, et seq."
SECTION 2.  G.S. 62‑3(1) reads as rewritten:
"(1)	"Broadband service" means any service that consists of or includes a high‑speed access capability to transmit at a rate of not less than 200 kilobits per second in either the upstream or downstream direction and either (i) is used to provide access to the Internet, or (ii) provides computer processing, information storage, information content, or protocol conversion, including any service applications or information service provided over such high‑speed access service. "Broadband service" includes any service that enables the end user to send or receive communications in Internet protocol or a successor protocol, including, but not limited to, voice‑over‑Internet protocol. "Broadband service" does not include intrastate service that was tariffed by the Commission and in effect as of the effective date of this subdivision."
SECTION 3.  This act is effective when it becomes law.