"Emerging competitive service" defined

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SD Code › Title 49 › Chapter 31 › Section 49-31-1.2

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For the purposes of this chapter, "emerging competitive service" is a service that satisfies the criteria of § 49-31-3.2 and which has alternative services available to over twenty percent of the company's customers for that service. Such services include:

(1) Inter-LATA message toll service and intra - LATA message toll service;

(2) Inter-LATA wide area telephone service and intra - LATA wide area telephone service; and

(3) New products and services not functionally required to provide local exchange service.

Source: SL 1988, ch 375, § 3.

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