Montana Title 69. Public Utilities and Carriers § 69-3-850. Internet protocol-enabled service not regulated

(a) restrict authority delegated to the commission or to a state agency under federal statute, rule, or order;

(b) restrict the application of a law related to consumer protection and fair competition of general applicability to an internet protocol-enabled service or provider;

(c) modify or affect the rights or obligations of a carrier under 47 U.S.C. 251 or 47 U.S.C. 252;

(d) modify or affect commission authority over wholesale telecommunications services, rates, agreements, interconnection, or tariffs;

(e) modify or affect the rights or obligations of any entity for the use of public streets, roads, highways, and rights-of-way, including under an ordinance or agreement managing or providing access to the public right-of-way;

(f) modify or affect the assessment of nondiscriminatory fees associated with enhanced 911 service, universal service, or telecommunications relay service with respect to services described in subsections (4)(b) and (4)(c);

(g) restrict the authority of a state agency to specify requirements for the purchase of an internet protocol-enabled service;  or

(h) restrict a commission requirement that a company provider of telecommunications services register as a service provider.

(a) broadband internet service as defined in 90-1-602(1)(a);

(b) interconnected voice-over internet protocol service that enables real-time, two-way voice communications originating or terminating from a user's location using internet protocol or a successor protocol, that allows users to receive calls originating on the public switched telephone network and to terminate calls to the public switched telephone network, and that requires internet protocol-compatible customer premises equipment;

(c) non-interconnected voice-over internet protocol service that enables real-time voice communications over internet protocol or any successor protocol and that requires internet protocol-compatible customer premises equipment but does not otherwise fit the description of interconnected voice-over internet protocol service;  or

(d) any other service, capability, function, or application that uses existing internet protocol or any successor internet protocol and enables an end user to send or receive a communication in existing internet protocol format or any successor internet protocol format, regardless of whether the communication is voice, data, or video.