South Carolina Code 58-9-3050. Relationship between electric cooperatives and broadband affiliates; disconnection of electric services based on customer’s failure to pay for broadband service
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(A) An electric cooperative may not condition the receipt of electric service on, nor provide more favorable terms for electric service for, persons that receive broadband service from the electric cooperative’s broadband affiliate or any other broadband service provider.
(B) An electric cooperative may not share confidential information from an unaffiliated communications service provider obtained in a pole attachment request and approval process including, but not limited to, requested locations for pole attachments, the locations of customers to be served, or any identifying information regarding customers with its broadband affiliate or any other communications service provider.
Terms Used In South Carolina Code 58-9-3050
- Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
- Broadband affiliate: means a broadband service provider that is a separate legal entity from any electric cooperative but is wholly or partially owned by one or more electric cooperatives, or is controlled by, controls, or is under common control with one or more electric cooperatives. See South Carolina Code 58-9-3010
- Broadband service: means a landline or wireless service that meets the definition of "broadband service" in § 58-9-10(17) and that has minimum download speeds of 25 megabits per second and minimum upload speeds of 3 megabits per second. See South Carolina Code 58-9-3010
- Broadband service provider: means :
(a) a person that provides retail broadband service to end-user customers; and
(b) an existing broadband service provider. See South Carolina Code 58-9-3010 - Communications service provider: means a person that provides communications service as defined in § 58-9-2610(B). See South Carolina Code 58-9-3010
- Electric cooperative: means an electric cooperative organized under Chapter 49 of Title 33. See South Carolina Code 58-9-3010
(C) An electric cooperative shall not disconnect any customer from receiving electric services based on the customer’s failure to pay for broadband service provided to the customer by the electric cooperative’s broadband affiliate.