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<section article="gpu" article_name="Public Utilities" number="8-601" title_number="8" title_name="Telegraph and Telephone Companies" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Voice Over Internet Protocol Service">
  <text>In this subtitle:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>“voice over Internet protocol service” or “VoIP service” means any service that:</text>
    <level label="i">
      <text>enables real–time two–way voice communications that originate from or terminate to the subscriber end user’s location requiring Internet protocol or any successor protocol to Internet protocol; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="ii">
      <text>requires a broadband connection from the user’s location; and</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>“voice over Internet protocol service” or “VoIP service” includes any such service that permits users generally to receive calls that originate on the public switched telephone network and to terminate calls to the public switched telephone network.</text>
  </level>
</section>
