CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITIONS (§ 56-54.2)

As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different
meaning:”Competitive local exchange telephone company” means (i) a
competing telephone company, excluding a city, town, or county, that was granted
a certificate on or after January 1, 1996, pursuant to § 56-265.4:4 or (ii) an
incumbent local exchange telephone company to the extent such company is
providing service outside of its incumbent territory.”Competitive
telephone company” means (i) an incumbent local exchange telephone company
whose residential dial tone lines (a) were deemed competitive by the Commission
throughout the company’s incumbent service territory prior to January 1,
2014, or (b) are declared competitive by the Commission throughout its incumbent
service territory on or after January 1, 2014, in a proceeding pursuant to §
56-235.5 or (ii) a competitive local exchange telephone company.”Incumbent
local exchange telephone company” means a public service corporation that
was providing local exchange telephone service prior to January 1, 1996, or a
successor entity to such a public service corporation.”Incumbent
territory” means the area in which an incumbent local exchange telephone
company was providing local exchange telephone service prior to July 1, 2002,
except as its incumbent certificate may have been amended by the Commission
after that date pursuant to subdivision B 1 of § 56-265.4:4.

HISTORY: 2014, cc. 340, 376.