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As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:\n(a) 'Broadband telecommunications' means any receipt or transmission of electromagnetic signals, including broadcast and non-broadcast signals, cable service, and telecommunications service, over coaxial cable, optical fiber, or any other transmission medium;\n(b) 'Cable service' means the provision by a cable television company of any communication service provided over a cable system, but does not include telephone service;\n(c) 'Cable subscriber' means any person who receives electromagnetic signals distributed over a cable television system;\n(d) 'Cable television company' means any person owning, controlling, operating, managing or leasing a cable television system within the territory;\n(e) 'Cable television system' means a facility which consists of a primary control center used to receive and retransmit, or to originate broadband telecommunications service over coaxial cables, optical fibers, or other transmission media, from the primary control center to a point of reception at the premises of a cable subscriber, whether or not the public right-of-way is used;\n(f) 'Commission' means the Public

r transmission media, from the primary control center to a point of reception at the premises of a cable subscriber, whether or not the public right-of-way is used;\n(f) 'Commission' means the Public Services Commission;\n(g) 'Executive Director' means the Executive Director of the Public Services Commission;\n(h) 'Franchise' means any authorization granted to a cable television company pursuant to this chapter to construct, operate, or maintain a cable television system;\n(i) 'Gross subscriber receipts' means any compensation received by a cable television company from its subscribers; gross subscriber receipts shall not include any taxes collected by a cable television company for a governmental unit;\n(j) 'Highway' means every street, road, alley, thoroughfare, way or place of any kind used by the public or open to the use of the public;\n(k) 'Pay cable programming' means programming, exclusive of broadcast signals, carried on a cable television system for which a separate charge is made or designated to the subscribers;\n(l) 'Public utility' means any person whose rates are regulated by the federal or territorial government and who owns or controls poles, ducts, conduits, or

is made or designated to the subscribers;\n(l) 'Public utility' means any person whose rates are regulated by the federal or territorial government and who owns or controls poles, ducts, conduits, or rights-of-way used for wire communication. Such term specifically includes any person who is cooperatively organized, or any person owned by the federal or territorial government, but does not include a cable television company or a cable television system;\n(m) 'Rates' means the charges for initial installation and monthly subscriptions, in payment of programs received other than pay cable programming.