36.585(1)(b)

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(b) “Third-party entity” means a company, corporation, nonprofit association, joint venture, cooperative, partnership, or consortium.

36.585(3)

(3)

36.585(3)(a)2.

2. The third-party entity or other person is comprised entirely of universities and university-affiliated research facilities.

36.585

36.585 Telecommunications and information technology services.

36.585(1)

(1) In this section:

36.585(1)(a)

(a) “Telecommunications services” includes data and voice over Internet protocol services, Internet protocol services, broadband access and transport, information technology services, Internet access services, and unlit fiber.

36.585(2)

(2) The board may use telecommunications services procured by the board only for the purpose of carrying out its mission. The board shall not offer, resell, or provide telecommunications services, that are available from a private telecommunications carrier to the general public or to any other public or private entity.

36.585(3)(a)

(a) Beginning July 1, 2013, the board may not be, and shall ensure that no institution or college campus is and that the extension is not, a member, shareholder, or partner in or with any third-party entity or other person that offers, resells, or provides telecommunications services to the general public or to any public or private entity unless at least one of the following applies:

36.585(3)(a)1.

1. The third-party entity or other person does not offer, resell, or provide telecommunications services that it did not offer, resell, or provide on June 15, 2011, and the third-party entity or other person does not offer, resell, or provide telecommunications services to a private entity, to the general public, or to a public entity other than a university or a university-affiliated research facility or a facility approved by the joint committee on finance under sub. (4), that the third-party entity was not serving on June 15, 2011.

36.585(4)

(4) Beginning June 15, 2011, the board may not commit, and shall ensure that no institution or college campus or the extension, commits, any funds received from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration in the federal department of commerce related to the Building Community Capacity Through Broadband Project grant awarded to the extension to any facilities to which such funds were not committed prior to June 15, 2011, without the approval of the joint committee on finance.