Contents
- (a) Purpose1 change
- (b) Definitions3 changes
- (c) Grants, loans, and loan guarantees4 changes
- (d) Eligibility18 changes
- (e) Broadband service5 changes
- (f) Technological neutrality1 change
- (g) Terms and conditions for loans and loan guarantees2 changes
- (h) Adequacy of security
- (i) Payment assistance for certain loan and grant recipients1 change
- (j) Funding3 changes
- (k) Termination of authority2 changes
(b)In this section:
(1)The term “broadband service” means any technology identified by the Secretary as having the capacity to transmit data to enable a subscriber to the service to originate and receive high-quality voice, data, graphics, and video.
(2)The term “incumbent service provider”, with respect to an application submitted under this section, means an entity that, as of the date of submission of the application, is providing broadband service to not less than 5 percent of the households in the service territory proposed in the application.
(3)
(A)The term “rural area” means any area other than—
(i)an area described in clause (i) or (ii) of section 1991(a)(13)(A) of this title; and
(ii)in the case of a grant or direct loan, a city, town, or incorporated area that has a population of greater than 20,000 inhabitants.
(B)The Secretary may, by regulation only, consider an area described in section 1991(a)(13)(F)(i)(I) of this title to not be a rural area for purposes of this section.
(C)Such term does not include any population described in subparagraph (H) or (I) of section 1991(a)(13) of this title.
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