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thorize the modification, impairment, or supersession of, 
any State or local tax law. 
‘‘(f) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) EMERGENCY RESPONSE SYSTEM.—The term 
‘emergency response system’ means an alarm or secu-
rity system, or personal security or medical moni-
toring system, that is connected to an emergency re-
sponse center by means of a telecommunications car-
rier or IP-enabled voice service provider. 
‘‘(2) EMERGENCY RESPONSE CENTER.—The term 
‘emergency response center’ means an entity that 
monitors transmissions from an emergency response 
system. 
‘‘(3) FACILITIES-BASED.—The term ‘facilities- 
based’ includes an IP-enabled voice service provider 
with control and operation within a local access 
transport area of— 
‘‘(A) communications switching and routing 
equipment; 
‘‘(B) long-haul trunks; or 
‘‘(C) local transmission facilities. 
‘‘(4) IP-ENABLED
VOICE
SERVICE.—The term 
‘IP-enabled voice service’ means the provision of real- 
time 2-way voice communications offered to the pub-
lic, or such classes of users as to be effectively avail-
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able to the public, transmitted through customer 
premises equipment using Internet protocol, or a suc-
cessor protocol, for a fee (whether part of a bundle of 
services or offered separately) with interconnection ca-
pability such that the service can originate traffic to, 
and terminate traffic from, the public switched tele-
phone network.’’. 
SEC. 214. TREATMENT OF SUBSTITUTE SERVICES UNDER 
SECTION 254(g). 
Section 254(g) (47 U.S.C. 254(g)) is amended by in-
serting after ‘‘State.’’ the following: ‘‘This section shall also 
apply to any services within the jurisdiction of the Commis-
sion that can be used as effective substitutes for inter-
exchange telecommunications services, including any such 
substitute classified as an information service that uses tele-
communications.’’. 
Subtitle B—Distributions From 
Universal Service 
SEC. 251. ENCOURAGING BROADBAND DEPLOYMENT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Beginning 2 years after the date 
of enactment of this Act, and biennially thereafter, an eligi-
ble communications carrier shall submit a report to the 
Commission and to the State commission in each State in 
which it provides communications service that sets forth the 
following: 
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(1) The percentage of households to which it of-
fers broadband service in each of its service areas. 
(2) The percentage of households that subscribe to 
broadband service in each of its service areas. 
(3) The service plans and speeds at which 
broadband service is offered in each of its service 
areas. 
(4) The types of technologies used in offering 
broadband service in each of its service areas. 
(5) Any planned upgrade or deployment of 
broadband service in the next 2 years in each of its 
service areas. 
(b) INFORMATION TREATED AS CONFIDENTIAL.—The 
Commission and State commissions shall treat information 
received pursuant to subsection (a) as confidential and pro-
prietary, and shall protect sensitive business information 
from disclosure in any reports made public. 
(c) COMMISSION REPORT.—The Commission shall in-
corporate the data from reports it receives under subsection 
(a) into its advanced telecommunications capability reports 
under section 706 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. 
SEC. 252. ESTABLISHMENT OF BROADBAND PROGRAM. 
Part I of title II (47 U.S.C. 201 et seq.) is amended 
by inserting after section 254 the following: 
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