                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

DEFINITIONS (§ 56-54.2)

As used in this chapter, unless the context requires a different meaning:
		&#8220;Competitive local exchange telephone company&#8221; 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.
		&#8220;Competitive telephone company&#8221; means (i) an incumbent local
exchange telephone company whose residential dial tone lines (a) were deemed
competitive by the Commission throughout the company&#8217;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.
		&#8220;Incumbent local exchange telephone company&#8221; 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.
		&#8220;Incumbent territory&#8221; 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.