{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-17-17-139.102","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 17, § 17-139.102","heading":"Definitions","body":"As used in the Oklahoma Telecommunications Act of 1997:\n\n1. \"Access line\" means the facilities provided and maintained\n\nby a telecommunications service provider which permit access to or\n\nfrom the public switched network or its functional equivalent\n\nregardless of the technology or medium used;\n\n2. \"Administrative process\" means an administrative application\n\nprocess which allows eligible local exchange telecommunications\n\nproviders and eligible providers to request funding and an\n\nadministrative submission process that allows Oklahoma Universal\n\nService Fund Beneficiaries to submit a preapproval request directly\n\nwith the Administrator. Both of the administrative processes shall\n\nnot require an order from the Commission to determine eligibility\n\nfor, allocate or disburse funds unless a request for reconsideration\n\nis filed;\n\n3. \"Administrator\" means the Director of the Public Utility\n\nDivision of the Corporation Commission;\n\n4. \"Broadband\", as used in Section 139.202 of this title, means\n\nthose services and underlying facilities that provide access to and\n\nfrom the Internet of continuous speeds of at least twenty-five (25)\n\nmegabits per second (Mbps) downstream, from the provider to the\n\ncustomer, and continuous speeds of at least three (3) megabits per\n\nsecond (Mbps) upstream, from the customer to the provider, using\n\nfixed, terrestrial facilities, including, but not limited to,\n\nwireless, copper wire, fiber-optic cable, or coaxial cable, to\n\nprovide such service. The minimum Internet speeds listed in this\n\nparagraph shall be subject to change or update when, or if, the\n\nFederal Communications Commission makes new rulings related to its\n\ndefinition of broadband;\n\n5. \"Commission\" means the Corporation Commission of this state;\n\n6. \"Competitive local exchange carrier\" or \"CLEC\" means, with\n\nrespect to an area or exchange, a telecommunications service\n\nprovider that is certificated by the Commission to provide local\n\nexchange services in that area or exchange within the state after\n\nJuly 1, 1995;\n\n7. \"Competitively neutral\" means not advantaging or favoring\n\none person or technology over another;\n\n8. \"Consortium\" means, as used in Section 139.109.1 of this\n\ntitle, two or more Oklahoma Universal Service Fund Beneficiaries\n\nthat choose to request support under the Federal Universal Service\n\nSupport Mechanism or successor program or programs as a single\n\nentity;\n\n9. \"Contributing providers\" means providers, including but not\n\nlimited to providers of intrastate telecommunications, providers of\n\nintrastate telecommunications for a fee on a non-common-carrier\n\nbasis, providers of wireless telephone service and providers of\n\ninterconnected Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). Contributing\n\nproviders shall contribute to the Oklahoma Universal Service Fund\n\nand Oklahoma Lifeline Fund. VoIP providers shall be assessed only\n\nas provided for in the decision of the Federal Communications\n\nCommission, FCC 10-185, released November 5, 2010, or such other\n\nassessment methodology that is not inconsistent with federal law.\n\nEntities exempt from contributing to the Federal Universal Service\n\nSupport Mechanisms are also exempt from contributing to the Oklahoma\n\nUniversal Service Fund and Oklahoma Lifeline Fund consistent with 47\n\nC.F.R., Section 54.706(d). The term \"contributing providers\" may be\n\nmodified to conform to the definition of contributors as defined by\n\nthe FCC if adopted by the Commission, after notice and hearing;\n\n10. \"Eligible entity\" means any terrestrial Internet service\n\nprovider willing to go into unserved or underserved areas, as\n\ndetermined by the Rural Broadband Expansion Council mapping. The\n\neligible entity shall provide at least the minimum broadband speeds\n\npursuant to paragraph 4 of this section;\n\n11. \"Eligible health care entity\" means a not-for-profit\n\" means any terrestrial Internet service\n\nprovider willing to go into unserved or underserved areas, as\n\ndetermined by the Rural Broadband Expansion Council mapping. The\n\neligible entity shall provide at least the minimum broadband speeds\n\npursuant to paragraph 4 of this section;\n\n11. \"Eligible health care entity\" means a not-for-profit\n\nhospital, county health department, city-county health department,\n\nnot-for-profit mental health and substance abuse facility or\n\nFederally Qualified Health Center in Oklahoma. Eligible health care\n\nentity shall also include telemedicine services provided by the\n\nOklahoma Department of Corrections at facilities identified in\n\nSection 509 of Title 57 of the Oklahoma Statutes;\n\n12. \"Eligible local exchange telecommunications service\n\nprovider\" means ILEC, CLEC and commercial radio mobile service\n\nprovider as those terms are used in the Oklahoma Telecommunications\n\nAct of 1997;\n\n13. \"Eligible provider\" means, for purposes of Special\n\nUniversal Services, providers of telecommunications services which\n\nhold a certificate of convenience and necessity and OneNet;\n\n14. \"End User Common Line Charge\" means the flat-rate monthly\n\ninterstate access charge required by the Federal Communications\n\nCommission that contributes to the cost of local service;\n\n15. \"Enhanced service\" means a service that is delivered over\n\ncommunications transmission facilities and that uses computer\n\nprocessing applications to:\n\na. change the content, format, code, or protocol of\n\ntransmitted information,\n\nb. provide the customer new or restructured information,\n\nor\n\nc. involve end-user interaction with information stored\n\nin a computer;\n\n16. \"Exchange\" means a geographic area established by an\n\nincumbent local exchange telecommunications provider as filed with\n\nor approved by the Commission for the administration of local\n\ntelecommunications service in a specified area which usually\n\nembraces a city, town, or village and its environs and which may\n\nconsist of one or more central offices together with associated\n\nplant used in furnishing telecommunications service in that area;\n\n17. \"Facilities\" means all the plant and equipment of a\n\ntelecommunications service provider, including all tangible and\n\nintangible real and personal property without limitation, and any\n\nand all means and instrumentalities in any manner owned, operated,\n\nleased, licensed, used, controlled, furnished, or supplied for, by,\n\nor in connection with the business of any telecommunications service\n\nprovider;\n\n18. \"Federally Qualified Health Center\" or \"(FQHC)\" means an\n\nentity which:\n\na. is receiving a grant under Section 330 of the Public\n\nHealth Service (PHS) Act, 42 U.S.C., Section 254b, or\n\nis receiving funding from a grant under a contract\n\nwith the recipient of such a grant and meets the\n\nrequirements to receive a grant under Section 330 of\n\nthe PHS Act,\n\nb. based on the recommendation of the Health Resources\n\nand Services Administration within the Public Health\n\nService, is determined by the Secretary of the\n\nDepartment of Health and Human Services to meet the\n\nrequirements for receiving a grant as described in\n\nsubparagraph a of this paragraph,\n\nc. was treated by the Secretary of the Department of\n\nHealth and Human Services, for purposes of part B of\n\nSection 330 of the PHS Act, as a comprehensive\n\nfederally funded health center as of January 1, 1990,\n\nor\n\nd. is an outpatient health program or facility operated\n\nby a tribe or tribal organization under the Indian\n\nSelf-Determination Act, 25 U.S.C., Section 450f et\n\nseq., or by an urban Indian organization receiving\n\nfunds under Title V of the Indian Health Care\n\nImprovement Act, 25 U.S.C., Section 1651 et seq.;\n\n19. \"Federal Universal Service Support Mechanism\" is the\n\nsupport program established by the Telecommunications Act of 1996,\nor facility operated\n\nby a tribe or tribal organization under the Indian\n\nSelf-Determination Act, 25 U.S.C., Section 450f et\n\nseq., or by an urban Indian organization receiving\n\nfunds under Title V of the Indian Health Care\n\nImprovement Act, 25 U.S.C., Section 1651 et seq.;\n\n19. \"Federal Universal Service Support Mechanism\" is the\n\nsupport program established by the Telecommunications Act of 1996,\n\n47 U.S.C., Section 254(h). The program includes support for\n\nschools, libraries and health care providers;\n\n20. \"Funding year\" means, for purposes of administering the\n\nOklahoma Universal Service Fund, the period of July 1 through June\n\n30;\n\n21. \"High speed Internet access service\" or \"broadband service\"\n\nmeans, as used in Section 139.202 of this title, those services and\n\nunderlying facilities that provide upstream, from customer to\n\nprovider, or downstream, from provider to customer, transmission to\n\nor from the Internet in excess of or at a constant download speed of\n\ntwenty-five (25) megabits per second (Mbps) and in excess of or at a\n\nconstant upload speed of three (3) megabits per second (Mbps),\n\nregardless of the technology or medium used, including, but not\n\nlimited to, wireless, copper wire, fiber-optic cable, or coaxial\n\ncable, to provide such service;\n\n22. \"Hospital\" means a health care entity that has been granted\n\na license as a hospital by the State Department of Health for that\n\nparticular location;\n\n23. \"Incumbent local exchange telecommunications service\n\nprovider\" or \"ILEC\" means, with respect to an area or exchanges, any\n\ntelecommunications service provider furnishing local exchange\n\nservice in such area or exchanges within this state on July 1, 1995,\n\npursuant to a certificate of convenience and necessity or\n\ngrandfathered authority;\n\n24. \"Installation charge\" means any charge for a nonrecurring\n\nservice charged by an eligible provider necessary to initiate\n\nSpecial Universal Services. Installation charges may not exceed the\n\ncost which would be charged for installation, if the cost were not\n\nbeing paid for by the OUSF;\n\n25. \"Interexchange telecommunications carrier\" or \"IXC\" means\n\nany person, firm, partnership, corporation or other entity, except\n\nan incumbent local exchange telecommunications service provider,\n\nengaged in furnishing regulated interexchange telecommunications\n\nservices under the jurisdiction of the Commission;\n\n26. \"Internet\" means the international research-oriented\n\nnetwork comprised of business, government, academic and other\n\nnetworks;\n\n27. \"Local exchange telecommunications service\" means a\n\nregulated switched or dedicated telecommunications service which\n\noriginates and terminates within an exchange or an exchange service\n\nterritory. Local exchange telecommunications service may be\n\nterminated by a telecommunications service provider other than the\n\ntelecommunications service provider on whose network the call\n\noriginated. The local exchange service territory defined in the\n\noriginating provider's tariff shall determine whether the call is\n\nlocal exchange service;\n\n28. \"Local exchange telecommunications service provider\" means\n\na company holding a certificate of convenience and necessity from\n\nthe Commission to provide local exchange telecommunications service;\n\n29. \"Not-for-profit hospital\" means:\n\na. a hospital located in this state which has been\n\nlicensed as a hospital at that location pursuant to\n\nSection 1-701 et seq. of Title 63 of the Oklahoma\n\nStatutes for the diagnosis, treatment, or care of\n\npatients in order to obtain medical care, surgical\n\ncare or obstetrical care and which is established as\n\nexempt from taxation pursuant to the provisions of the\n\nInternal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C., Section 501(c)(3),\n\nor\n\nb. a hospital located in this state which is licensed as\n\na hospital at that location pursuant to Section 1-701\n\net seq. of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes and is\nnt, or care of\n\npatients in order to obtain medical care, surgical\n\ncare or obstetrical care and which is established as\n\nexempt from taxation pursuant to the provisions of the\n\nInternal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C., Section 501(c)(3),\n\nor\n\nb. a hospital located in this state which is licensed as\n\na hospital at that location pursuant to Section 1-701\n\net seq. of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes and is\n\nowned by a municipality, county, the state or a public\n\ntrust for the diagnosis, treatment, or care of\n\npatients in order to obtain medical care, surgical\n\ncare, or obstetrical care;\n\n30. \"Not-for-profit mental health and substance abuse facility\"\n\nmeans a facility, not for the sole purpose of administration, which\n\nis operated by the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse\n\nServices or a facility certified by the Department of Mental Health\n\nand Substance Abuse Services as a Community Mental Health Care\n\nCenter, a Community-Based Structured Crisis Center or a Community\n\nComprehensive Addiction Recovery Center;\n\n31. \"Oklahoma High Cost Fund\" means the fund established by the\n\nCommission in Cause Nos. PUD 950000117 and 950000119;\n\n32. \"Oklahoma Lifeline Fund\" or \"(OLF)\" means the fund\n\nestablished and required to be implemented by the Commission\n\npursuant to Section 139.105 of this title;\n\n33. \"Oklahoma Universal Service Fund\" or \"(OUSF)\" means the\n\nfund established and required to be implemented by the Commission\n\npursuant to Section 139.106 of this title;\n\n34. \"Oklahoma Universal Service Fund Beneficiary\" means an\n\nentity eligible to receive Special Universal Services support as\n\nprovided for in subsection A of Section 139.109.1 of this title;\n\n35. \"Prediscount amount\" means the total cost of Special\n\nUniversal Services, selected pursuant to the procedures set out in\n\nparagraph 5 of subsection B of Section 139.109.1 of this title,\n\nbefore charges are reduced by federal or state funding support. The\n\nprediscount amount shall not include fees or taxes;\n\n36. \"Person\" means any individual, partnership, association,\n\ncorporation, governmental entity, public or private organization of\n\nany character, or any other entity;\n\n37. \"Primary universal service\" means an access line and dial\n\ntone provided to the premises of residential or business customers\n\nwhich provides access to other lines for the transmission of two-way\n\nswitched or dedicated communication in the local calling area\n\nwithout additional, usage-sensitive charges, including:\n\na. a primary directory listing,\n\nb. dual-tone multifrequency signaling,\n\nc. access to operator services,\n\nd. access to directory assistance services,\n\ne. access to telecommunications relay services for the\n\ndeaf or hard-of-hearing,\n\nf. access to nine-one-one service where provided by a\n\nlocal governmental authority or multijurisdictional\n\nauthority, and\n\ng. access to interexchange long distance services;\n\n38. \"Public library\" means a library or library system that is\n\nfreely open to all persons under identical conditions and which is\n\nsupported in whole or in part by public funds. Public library shall\n\nnot include libraries operated as part of any university, college,\n\nschool museum, the Oklahoma Historical Society or county law\n\nlibraries;\n\n39. \"Public school\" means all free schools supported by public\n\ntaxation, and shall include grades prekindergarten through twelve\n\nand technology center schools that provide vocational and technical\n\ninstruction for high school students who attend the technology\n\ncenter school on a tuition-free basis. Public school shall not\n\ninclude private schools, home schools or virtual schools;\n\n40. \"Regulated telecommunications service\" means the offering\n\nof telecommunications for a fee directly to the public where the\n\nrates for such service are regulated by the Commission. Regulated\n\ntelecommunications service does not include the provision of\nCommission Page 55\n\ncenter school on a tuition-free basis. Public school shall not\n\ninclude private schools, home schools or virtual schools;\n\n40. \"Regulated telecommunications service\" means the offering\n\nof telecommunications for a fee directly to the public where the\n\nrates for such service are regulated by the Commission. Regulated\n\ntelecommunications service does not include the provision of\n\nnontelecommunications services, including, but not limited to, the\n\nprinting, distribution, or sale of advertising in telephone\n\ndirectories, maintenance of inside wire, customer premises\n\nequipment, and billing and collection service, nor does it include\n\nthe provision of wireless telephone service, enhanced service, and\n\nother unregulated services, including services not under the\n\njurisdiction of the Commission, and services determined by the\n\nCommission to be competitive;\n\n41. \"Served area\" means an area or region with access to\n\nbroadband at or above a defined transmission speed threshold as\n\ndescribed in paragraph 4 of this section;\n\n42. \"Special Universal Services\" means the telecommunications\n\nservices supported by the OUSF which are furnished to public\n\nschools, public libraries and eligible health care entities as\n\nprovided for in Section 139.109.1 of this title;\n\n43. \"Tariff\" means all or any part of the body of rates, tolls,\n\ncharges, classifications, and terms and conditions of service\n\nrelating to regulated services offered, the conditions under which\n\noffered, and the charges therefor, which have been filed with the\n\nCommission and have become effective;\n\n44. \"Telecommunications\" means the transmission, between or\n\namong points specified by the user, of information of the user's\n\nchoosing, without change in the form or content of the information\n\nas sent and received;\n\n45. \"Telecommunications carrier\" means a person that provides\n\ntelecommunications service in this state;\n\n46. \"Telecommunications service\" means the offering of\n\ntelecommunications for a fee;\n\n47. \"Telemedicine service\" means the practice of health care\n\ndelivery, diagnosis, consultation and treatment, including but not\n\nlimited to the transfer of medical data or exchange of medical\n\neducation information by means of audio, video or data\n\ncommunications. Telemedicine service shall not mean a consultation\n\nprovided by telephone or facsimile machine;\n\n48. \"Underserved area\" means an area or region that has\n\nInternet service at speeds higher than those that meet the\n\ndefinition of an unserved area, but lower than those service speeds\n\nof high-speed Internet;\n\n49. \"Universal service area\" has the same meaning as the term\n\n\"service area\" as defined in 47 U.S.C., Section 214(e)(5);\n\n50. \"Unserved area\" means an area or region in which there is\n\nnot at least one provider of terrestrial broadband service that is\n\neither:\n\na. offering a connection to the Internet, or\n\nb. required, under the terms of the Federal Universal\n\nService Fund or other federal or state grant, to\n\nprovide a connection to the Internet;\n\n51. \"WAN\" means a wide-area network that exists over a large-\n\nscale geographical area. A WAN connects different smaller networks,\n\nincluding local area networks and metro area networks, which ensures\n\nthat computers and users in one location can communicate with\n\ncomputers and users in other locations;\n\n52. \"Wire center\" means a geographic area normally served by a\n\ncentral office;\n\n53. \"Wireless Internet service provider\" or \"WISP\", as used in\n\nSection 2 of this act, means a fixed wireless access provider that\n\nuses point-to-point microwave or millimeter-wave links between its\n\ntowers for coverage extension and backhaul and point-to-multipoint\n\nlinks from the towers to the customer premises; and\n\n54. \"Wireless telephone service\" means radio communication\n\nservice carried on between mobile stations or receivers and land\n\nstations and by mobile stations communicating among themselves and\ness provider that\n\nuses point-to-point microwave or millimeter-wave links between its\n\ntowers for coverage extension and backhaul and point-to-multipoint\n\nlinks from the towers to the customer premises; and\n\n54. \"Wireless telephone service\" means radio communication\n\nservice carried on between mobile stations or receivers and land\n\nstations and by mobile stations communicating among themselves and\n\nwhich permits a user generally to receive a call that originates or\n\nterminates on the public switched network or its functional\n\nequivalent regardless of the radio frequencies used.","path":["OK Code","Title 17"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os17.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"77d386bdfa0eef966b85ae984c901b4458e1db3501bad0c9c6aaa104377a5acb","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-17-17-139.101","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-17-17-139.103"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. 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