New Mexico Register / Volume XXIX, Issue 9 / May 15, 2018

Explanatory Paragraph: This is a short form amendment to 17.11.10 NMAC, Section 7, effective 5/15/2018. In 17.11.10.7 NMAC, Subsections E through Z were not published as there were no changes.

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17.11.10.7 DEFINITIONS: In addition to the definitions contained in Section 63-9H-3, NMSA 1978, as used in this rule:

A. “Access line” means a dial tone line, or its functional equivalent, that provides local exchange service from a carrier’s switching equipment to a point of termination at the customer’s network interface and is not limited to wireline or any other technology; for the purposes of this rule, an access line does not include official lines, unbundled network elements/platforms, retail resale, wholesale resale, special access lines and private lines.

B. “Administrator” means the person designated by the commission to administer the fund.

C. “Area underserved by broadband” means a broadband program proposed project area where at least fifty percent of households lack access to fixed and mobile facilities-based broadband service, at the minimum broadband transmission speeds of 10.0 mbps download/1.0 mbps upload. A household has access to broadband service if the household can readily subscribe to that service upon request.

D. “Area unserved by broadband” means a broadband program proposed project area where at least [ninety] fifty percent of the households lack access to fixed and mobile facilities-based broadband service, at the minimum broadband transmission speeds of 4.0 mbps download/1.0 mbps upload. A household has access to broadband service if the household can readily subscribe to that service upon request.

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[17.11.10.7 NMAC - Rp, 17.11.10.7 NMAC, 1/1/2018; A, 05/15/2018]