‘‘(6) AFFECT ON OTHER LAW.—Nothing in this 
section is intended to limit a franchising authority’s 
rights pursuant to section 622(h). 
‘‘(p) ADDITIONAL DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of 
this section: 
‘‘(1) CABLE OPERATOR.—The term ‘cable oper-
ator’ has the meaning provided in section 602(5) ex-
cept that such term also includes a person or group 
with a national franchise under this section. 
‘‘(2) FRANCHISE FEE.— 
‘‘(A) The term ‘franchise fee’ includes any 
fee or assessment of any kind imposed by a 
franchising authority or other governmental en-
tity on a person or group providing cable serv-
ice in a franchise area under this section, or on 
a subscriber of such person or group, or both, 
solely because of their status as such. 
‘‘(B) The term ‘franchise fee’ does not in-
clude— 
‘‘(i) any tax, fee, or assessment of 
general applicability (including any such 
tax, fee, or assessment imposed on both 
utilities and a person or group providing 
cable service in a franchise area under this 
section (or the services of such person or 
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group) but not including a fee or assess-
ment which is unduly discriminatory 
against such person or group or the sub-
scribers of such person or group); 
‘‘(ii) any fee assessed under sub-
section (e)(2) for support of public, edu-
cational, and governmental use and institu-
tional networks (as such term is defined in 
section 611(f)); 
‘‘(iii) requirements or charges under 
subsection (f)(2) for the management of 
public rights-of-way, including payments 
for bonds, security funds, letters of credit, 
insurance, indemnification, penalties, or 
liquidated damages; or 
‘‘(iv) any fee imposed under title 17, 
United States Code. 
‘‘(3) INTERNET
ACCESS
SERVICE.—The term 
‘Internet access service’ means a service that enables 
users to access content, information, electronic mail, 
or other services offered over the Internet. 
‘‘(4) UNIT
OF
GENERAL
LOCAL
GOVERN-
MENT.—The term ‘unit of general local government’ 
means— 
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‘‘(A) a county, township, city, or political 
subdivision of a county, township, or city; 
‘‘(B) the District of Columbia; or 
‘‘(C) the recognized governing body of an 
Indian tribe or Alaskan Native village that car-
ries out substantial governmental duties and 
powers.’’. 
(b) IMPLEMENTING
REGULATIONS.—The Federal 
Communications Commission shall prescribe regulations 
to implement the amendment made by subsection (a) with-
in 120 days after the date of enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 102. DEFINITIONS. 
Section 602 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 
U.S.C. 522) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (4), by inserting before the 
semicolon at the end the following: ‘‘, or its equiva-
lent as determined by the Commission’’; 
(2) in paragraph (5)(A), by inserting ‘‘(regard-
less of whether such person or group provides such 
service separately or combined with a telecommuni-
cations service or information service)’’ after ‘‘over 
a cable system’’; and 
(3) by striking paragraph (6) and inserting the 
following: 
‘‘(6) the term ‘cable service’ means— 
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‘‘(A)(i) the one-way transmission to sub-
scribers of (I) video programming, or (II) other 
programming service; and 
‘‘(ii) subscriber interaction, if any, which is 
required for the selection or use of such video 
programming or other programming service; or 
‘‘(B) the transmission to subscribers of 
video programming or other programming serv-
ice provided through wireline facilities located 
at least in part in the public rights-of-way, 
without regard to delivery technology, including 
Internet protocol technology, except to the ex-
tent that such video programming or other pro-
gramming service is provided as part of— 
‘‘(i) a commercial mobile service (as 
such term is defined in section 332(d)); or 
‘‘(ii) an Internet access service (as 
such term is defined in section 630(p)).’’. 
SEC. 103. MONITORING AND REPORTING. 
(a) REPORT ON CABLE SERVICE DEPLOYMENT.— 
The Federal Communications Commission shall, com-
mencing not later than one year after the date of enact-
ment of this Act, issue a report annually on the deploy-
ment of cable service. In its report, the Commission shall 
describe in detail— 
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(1) with respect to deployment by new cable op-
erators— 
(A) the progress of deployment of such 
service within the telephone service area of 
cable operators, if the operator is also an in-
cumbent local exchange carrier, including a 
comparison with the progress of deployment of 
broadband services not defined as cable services 
within such telephone service area; 
(B) the number of franchise areas in which 
such service is being deployed and offered; 
(C) where such service is not being de-
ployed and offered; and 
(D) the number and locations of franchise 
areas in which the cable operator is serving only 
a portion of the franchise area, and the extent 
of such service within the franchise area; 
(2) the number and locations of franchise areas 
in which a cable operator with a franchise under sec-
tion 621 of the Communications Act of 1934 (47 
U.S.C. 541) on the date of enactment of this Act 
withdraws service from any portion of the franchise 
area for which it previously offered service, and the 
extent of such withdrawal of service within the fran-
chise area; 
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(3) the rates generally charged for cable service; 
(4) the rates charged by overlapping, competing 
multichannel video programming distributors and by 
competing cable operators for comparable service or 
cable service; 
(5) the average household income of those fran-
chise areas or portions of franchise areas where 
cable services is being offered, and the average 
household income of those franchise areas, or por-
tions of franchise areas, where cable service is not 
being offered; 
(6) the proportion of rural households to urban 
households, as defined by the Bureau of the Census, 
in those franchise areas or portions of franchise 
areas where cable service is being offered, and the 
proportion of rural households to urban households 
in those franchise areas or portions of franchise 
areas where cable service is not being offered, in-
cluding a State-by-State breakdown of such data 
and a comparison with the overall ratio of rural and 
urban households in each State; and 
(7) a comparison of the services and rates in 
areas served by national franchisees under section 
630 of the Communications Act of 1934 (as added 
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