2013 Vermont Statutes
Title 03 Executive
Chapter 45 ADMINISTRATION
§ 2222c Broadband and wireless deployment

2222c. Broadband and wireless deployment

(a) Definitions. In this section:

(1) "Broadband" means high speed Internet access and includes all facilities, equipment, and apparatus used by a person or entity to provide such access to an end user.

(2) "Mbps" means megabits per second.

(3) "Wireless communications service" means retail communications service that allows for two-way transmission of voice and data using a local, state, national, or international network and in which the end user connects to the network using a circuit-switched handheld device with a built-in antenna that transmits voice or data through radio waves to a receiver that is located at or on a telecommunications facility as defined in section 248a of this title.

(b) Report; broadband and wireless deployment; underserved and unserved areas. On or before January 30, 2012, the Secretary of Administration or designee shall report to the General Assembly each of the following:

(1) As of January 1, 2014, based upon data submitted by the providers, the areas of the State that will not be served by broadband. The report shall reflect both areas currently served as of the date of the report, as well as areas proposed to be served on or before January 1, 2014, including broadband and wireless communications services funded in whole or in part pursuant to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, Pub.L. No. 111-5. The report shall include a map and a narrative description of each of the following, as of January 1, 2014:

(A) The areas served and the areas not served by broadband that has a download speed of at least 0.768 Mbps and an upload speed of at least 0.2 Mbps.

(B) The areas served and the areas not served by broadband that has a combined download and upload speed of at least five Mbps.

(C) The areas served and the areas not served by wireless communications service.

(2) Estimates as can reasonably be identified of the cost to:

(A) Provide broadband that has a download speed of at least 0.768 Mbps and an upload speed of at least 0.2 Mbps to areas not served by such broadband.

(B) Provide broadband that has a combined download and upload speed of at least five Mbps to areas not served by such broadband.

(C) Provide wireless communications service to the areas identified under subdivision (1)(C) of this subsection as not receiving such service. (Added 2011, No. 53, 24a, eff. May 27, 2011.)