Terms Used In Montana Code > Title 90 > Chapter 1 > Part 6 - ConnectMT Act

• Broadband: means a mass-market retail service by wire or radio that provides the capability to transmit data to and receive data from all or substantially all internet endpoints. See Montana Code 90-1-602
• Broadband service: means the signal transmission facilities and associated network equipment proposed to be deployed in a project area used for the provision of broadband service to residential, business, and government customers. See Montana Code 90-1-602
• Challenge: means a contest to a proposal submitted to the department for funding on the grounds as provided for by the national telecommunications and information administration. See Montana Code 90-1-602
• Commission: means the communications advisory commission established in 90-1-603. See Montana Code 90-1-602
• Community anchor institution: means an entity such as a school, library, health clinic, health center, hospital or other medical provider, public safety entity, institution of higher education, or community support organization. See Montana Code 90-1-602
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Department: means the department of administration. See Montana Code 90-1-602
• Eligible provider: means an entity that:

  (a)has authorization to do business in the state; and

  (b)has demonstrated that it has the technical, financial, and managerial resources and experience to provide broadband service or other communications service to customers in the state. See Montana Code 90-1-602

• Extremely high cost per location threshold: is a subsidy cost for each location to be utilized during the proposal selection process in which a proposal may be declined if use of an alternative technology meeting the broadband, equity, access, and deployment program program's technical requirements would be less expensive. See Montana Code 90-1-602
• High-cost area: means an unserved area in which the cost of building out broadband service is fiscally imprudent, and the area contains no less than 80% of unserved broadband-serviceable locations. See Montana Code 90-1-602
• Majority party: means the party with the most members in a house of the legislature, subject to subsection (2). See Montana Code 1-1-208
• Minority party: means the party with the second most members in a house of the legislature, subject to subsection (2). See Montana Code 1-1-208
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of judicial proceedings. See Montana Code 1-1-202
• Project: means a proposed deployment of broadband service infrastructure set forth in a proposal for funding authorized under this part. See Montana Code 90-1-602
• Project area: means a shapefile area in an unserved or underserved area where the proposed broadband service infrastructure would be built as described in a proposal for funding authorized under this part. See Montana Code 90-1-602
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Several: means two or more. See Montana Code 1-1-201
• Shapefile: means a GIS file format for storing, depicting, and analyzing geospatial data depicting broadband coverage. See Montana Code 90-1-602
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Montana Code 1-1-201
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Underserved area: means a location or area that is not an unserved location and that lacks access to broadband service offered with a speed of not less than 100 megabits per second for downloads, a speed of not less than 20 megabits per second for uploads, and latency less than or equal to 100 milliseconds. See Montana Code 90-1-602
• Unserved area: means a broadband-serviceable location or area that has no access to broadband service or lacks service offered with a speed of not less than 25 megabits per second for downloads, a speed of not less than 3 megabits per second for uploads, and a latency less than or equal to 100 milliseconds. See Montana Code 90-1-602
• Unserved service project: means a project in which not less than 80% of broadband-serviceable locations served by the project are unserved locations. See Montana Code 90-1-602