As used in the Telecommunications Service Theft Act: A. 'provider' means a person that offers telecommunications service for lawful compensation; and B. 'telecommunications service' means any audio, video, data or programming offered for a fee or other consideration to facilitate the origination, transmission, emission or reception of signs, signals, data, writings, images, sounds or intelligence of any nature delivered by telephone or telephone service, cable television service, including cellular or other wireless telephones, wire, radio, electromagnetic, photoelectronic or photo-optical equipment, coaxial or fiber optic cable, terrestrial microwave, television broadcast or satellite transmission. History: Laws 1997, ch. 50, § 2. ANNOTATIONSEffective dates. — Laws 1997, ch. 50 contains no effective date provision, but, pursuant to N.M. Const., art. IV, § 23, the Telecommunications Service Theft Act is effective June 20, 1997, 90 days after adjournment of the legislature.
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