36.585 Telecommunications and information technology services.

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(1)In this section:

(ag)“Interconnection” means linking with a third-party network for the mutual exchange of traffic.

(ar)“Telecommunications services” includes data and voice over Internet protocol services, Internet protocol services, broadband access and transport, information technology services, Internet access services, and unlit fiber.

(b)“Third-party entity” means a company, corporation, nonprofit association, joint venture, cooperative, partnership, or consortium.

(2)The board may use telecommunications services procured by the board only for the purpose of carrying out its mission. Except as provided in sub.

(3m), the board shall not offer, resell, or provide telecommunications services, that are available from a private telecommunications carrier to the general public or to any other public or private entity.

(3)Except as provided in sub.

(3m), beginning July 1, 2013, the board may not be, and shall ensure that no institution or college campus is and that the extension is not, a member, shareholder, or partner in or with any third-party entity or other person that offers, resells, or provides telecommunications services to the general public or to any public or private entity unless at least one of the following applies:

(a)The third-party entity or other person does not offer, resell, or provide telecommunications services that it did not offer, resell, or provide on June 15, 2011, and the third-party entity or other person does not offer, resell, or provide telecommunications services to a private entity, to the general public, or to a public entity other than a university or a university-affiliated research facility or a facility approved by the joint committee on finance under sub.

(4), that the third-party entity was not serving on June 15, 2011.

(b)The third-party entity or other person is comprised entirely of universities and university-affiliated research facilities.

(a)In this subsection, “third-party entity” includes the Broadband Optical Research, Education and Sciences Network, Internet2, and the Northern Tier Network Consortium, and does not include WiscNet or its affiliates, successors, or assigns.

(b)The board, an institution or college campus, or the extension may serve as a member, shareholder, or partner in or with a third-party entity that satisfies either of the following: