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Official Code of Georgia Annotated

Title 46. PUBLIC UTILITIES AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION · Chapter 5. TELEPHONE SERVICE · Article 7. COMPETITIVE EMERGING COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES

46-5-221. Definitions.

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Current through: Including Acts of the 2025 Session of the General Assembly of Georgia.

  1. As used in this article, the term:

  2. (1)

    “Broadband service” means a service that consists of the capability to transmit at a rate not less than 200 kilobits per second in either the upstream or downstream direction and in combination with such service provide either:#

    1. (A)

      Access to the internet; or#

    2. (B)

      Computer processing, information storage, or protocol conversion.#

    3. Such term does not include any information content or service applications provided over such access service nor any intrastate service that was subject to a tariff in effect as of September 1, 2005.

  3. (2)

    “VoIP” means Voice over Internet Protocol services offering real-time multidirectional voice functionality utilizing any internet protocol.#

  4. (3)

    “Wireless service” means commercial mobile radio service carried on between mobile stations or receivers and land stations and by mobile stations communicating among themselves.#

The notes below are printed with the section but are not enacted law (O.C.G.A. § 1-1-1(c)). They are shown apart from the text.

History

Code 1981, § 46-5-221, enacted by Ga. L. 2006, p. 641, § 2/SB 120; Ga. L. 2007, p. 318, § 3/HB 394; Ga. L. 2013, p. 141, § 46/HB 79; Ga. L. 2025, p. 1029, § 46(55)/SB 153, effective July 1, 2025.

Amendments

The 2025 amendment, effective July 1, 2025, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, substituted “internet” for “Internet” in subparagraph (1)(A); substituted “Such term” for “For the purposes of this article, broadband service” in the undesignated paragraph following subparagraph (1)(B); and substituted “any internet protocol” for “any Internet protocol” in paragraph (2).

Code Commission notes

Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 2006, Code Section 46-5-201, as enacted by Ga. L. 2006, p. 641, § 2/SB 120, was redesignated as Code Section 46-5-221.

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