"Eligible broadband service provider"

Sec. 4. As used in this chapter, "eligible broadband service provider" means any company, firm, corporation, partnership, or association that: (1) either: (A) has been providing broadband service to at least one hundred (100) residences and businesses in Indiana for at least three (3) consecutive years; or (B) is: (i) a corporation organized under IC 8-1-13; or (ii) a corporation organized under IC 23-17 that is an electric cooperative and that has at least one (1) member that is a corporation organized under IC 8-1-13; and (2) has demonstrated, to the satisfaction of the office: (A) financial; (B) technical; and (C) operational; capability in building and operating a broadband network, according to standards for determining such capability in guidelines adopted by the office under section 10 of this chapter. As added by P.L.189-2019, SEC.7.