Florida Statutes Title XXXVI. Business Organizations § 610.103. Definitions

(1) “Cable service” means:

(2) “Cable service provider” means a person that provides cable service over a cable system.

(3) “Cable system” means a facility consisting of a set of closed transmission paths and associated signal generation, reception, and control equipment that is designed to provide cable service that includes video programming and that is provided to multiple subscribers within a community, but such term does not include:

(4) “Certificateholder” means a cable or video service provider that has been issued and holds a certificate of franchise authority from the department.

(5) “Department” means the Department of State.

(6) “Franchise” means an initial authorization or renewal of an authorization, regardless of whether the authorization is designated as a franchise, permit, license, resolution, contract, certificate, agreement, or otherwise, to construct and operate a cable system or video service provider network facilities in the public right-of-way.

(7) “Franchise authority” means any governmental entity empowered by federal, state, or local law to grant a franchise.

(8) “Incumbent cable service provider” means a cable or video service provider providing cable or video service on July 1, 2007.

(9) “Public right-of-way” means the area on, below, or above a public roadway, highway, street, sidewalk, alley, or waterway, including, without limitation, a municipal, county, state, district, or other public roadway, highway, street, sidewalk, alley, or waterway.

(10) “Video programming” means programming provided by, or generally considered comparable to programming provided by, a television broadcast station as set forth in 47 U.S.C. s. 522(20).

(11) “Video service” means video programming services, including cable services, provided through wireline facilities located at least in part in the public rights-of-way without regard to delivery technology, including Internet protocol technology. This definition does not include any video programming provided by a commercial mobile service provider as defined in 47 U.S.C. s. 332(d), video programming provided as part of and via a service that enables end users to access content, information, electronic mail, or other services offered over the public Internet.

(12) “Video service provider” means an entity providing video service.