{"data":{"id":"us-mt/69-3-850","jurisdiction":"us-mt","citation":"69-3-850","heading":"Internet protocol-enabled service not regulated.","body":"(1) An internet protocol-enabled service is not subject to regulation under this title.\n(2) Except as provided in subsections (3) and (4), an agency, commission, or political subdivision may not enact, adopt, or enforce a law, rule, regulation, ordinance, standard, order, or other provision that regulates the entry, rates, terms, or conditions of any internet protocol-enabled service or otherwise treats providers of internet protocol-enabled service as carriers.\n(3) This section does not:\n(a) restrict authority delegated to the commission or to a state agency under federal statute, rule, or order;\n(b) restrict the application of a law related to consumer protection and fair competition of general applicability to an internet protocol-enabled service or provider;\n(c) modify or affect the rights or obligations of a carrier under 47 U.S.C. 251 or 47 U.S.C. 252;\n(d) modify or affect commission authority over wholesale telecommunications services, rates, agreements, interconnection, or tariffs;\n(e) modify or affect the rights or obligations of any entity for the use of public streets, roads, highways, and rights-of-way, including under an ordinance or agreement managing or providing access to the public right-of-way;\n(f) modify or affect the assessment of nondiscriminatory fees associated with enhanced 911 service, universal service, or telecommunications relay service with respect to services described in subsections (4)(b) and (4)(c);\n(g) restrict the authority of a state agency to specify requirements for the purchase of an internet protocol-enabled service; or\n(h) restrict a commission requirement that a company provider of telecommunications services register as a service provider.\n(4) For the purposes of this section, \"internet protocol-enabled service\" means:\n(a) broadband internet service as defined in 90-1-602(1)(a);\n(b) interconnected voice-over internet protocol service that enables real-time, two-way voice communications originating or terminating from a user's location using internet protocol or a successor protocol, that allows users to receive calls originating on the public switched telephone network and to terminate calls to the public switched telephone network, and that requires internet protocol-compatible customer premises equipment;\n(c) non-interconnected voice-over internet protocol service that enables real-time voice communications over internet protocol or any successor protocol and that requires internet protocol-compatible customer premises equipment but does not otherwise fit the description of interconnected voice-over internet protocol service; or\n(d) any other service, capability, function, or application that uses existing internet protocol or any successor internet protocol and enables an end user to send or receive a communication in existing internet protocol format or any successor internet protocol format, regardless of whether the communication is voice, data, or video.","path":["TITLE 69. PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS","CHAPTER 3. REGULATION OF UTILITIES","Part 8. Montana Telecommunications Act"],"source_url":"https://mca.legmt.gov/bills/mca/title_0690/chapter_0030/part_0080/section_0500/0690-0030-0080-0500.html","current_through":"Montana Code Annotated 2025","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T04:58:12Z","sha256":"fe59ca5067b046a9583ef9e703fc565d52a292696baf9a3a25384292225368d6","source_id":"us-mt","stale":false,"prev":"us-mt/69-3-849","next":"us-mt/69-3-851"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}