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terminates and in which the customer's service address is also
located.

 
2. Other than call-by-call basis. Except as provided in
subsection 3, a sale of telecommunications services sold on a
basis other than a call-by-call basis is sourced to the
customer's place of primary use.

 
3. Exceptions. The sale of the following telecommunications
services must be sourced as follows:

 
A. A sale of a mobile telecommunications service is sourced
to the customer's place of primary use;

 
B. A sale of a post-paid calling service is sourced to the
origination point of the telecommunications signal as first
identified either by the seller's telecommunications system
or, if the system used to transport the signals is not that
of the seller, by information received by the seller from
its service provider; and

 
C. A sale of a private communication service is sourced as
follows:

 
(1) Service for a separate charge related to a customer
channel termination point is sourced to the
jurisdiction in which the customer channel termination
point is located;

 
(2) Service where all customer termination points are
located entirely within one jurisdiction is sourced to
that jurisdiction;

 
(3) Service for a separate charge for segments of a
channel between 2 customer channel termination points
located in different jurisdictions is sourced 50% to
each of those jurisdictions; and

 
(4) Service for segments of a channel located in more
than one jurisdiction that are not separately billed is
sourced to each jurisdiction based on the percentage
determined by dividing the number of customer channel
termination points in that jurisdiction by the total
number of customer channel termination points.

 
Sec. 62. 36 MRSA §2557, sub-§30, as amended by PL 2005, c. 218, §35,
is further amended to read:

 
30. Sales for resale. Sales of services to another service
provider for resale; and


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