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(1) The provision of 2-way interactive
communications through the use of telecommunications
equipment, exclusive of mobile telecommunications
services;

 
(2) The installation, maintenance or repair of
telecommunications equipment; and

 
(3) Two-way interactive mobile telecommunications
services provided by a home service provider to a
customer whose place of primary use is within this
State, to the extent those services are associated
with transmissions that originate and terminate
within this State or within any other state. For
purposes of this paragraph, the term "state" includes
the District of Columbia and any territory or
possession of the United States.; and

 
(4)__Except as otherwise provided by this subsection,
telecommunications services originating or
terminating outside this State.

 
B. "Telecommunications services" does not include:

 
(1) Except as otherwise provided by this subsection,
service originating or terminating outside this
State;

 
(2) Access services;

 
(3) Directory advertising services;

 
(4) The sale of unbundled network elements for use in
the provision of telecommunications services;

 
(5) For leases entered into on or after October 1,
1996, the lease of telecommunications equipment;

 
(6) A prepaid calling arrangement; or

 
(7) Mobile telecommunications services provided by a
home service provider to a customer whose place of
primary use is not within this State.

 
Sec. I-8. 36 MRSA §1760, sub-§14 is repealed.

 
Sec. I-9. 36 MRSA §1760, sub-§16, as amended by PL 1999, c. 708, §25,
is further amended to read:

 
16. Hospitals and nonprofit educational broadcast
corporations and literacy organizations. Sales to
incorporated hospitals, incorporated nonprofit nursing homes
licensed by the


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