(220 ILCS 5/13-301.2)
(Section scheduled to be repealed on December 31, 2026)
Sec. 13-301.2. Program to Foster Elimination of the Digital Divide. The Commission shall require by rule that each
telecommunications carrier providing local exchange telecommunications
service notify its end-user customers that if the customer wishes to
participate in the funding of the Program to Foster Elimination of the Digital
Divide he or she may do so by electing to contribute, on a monthly basis, a
fixed
amount that will be included in the customer's monthly bill. The obligations
imposed in this Section shall not be imposed upon a telecommunications carrier
for any of its end-users subscribing to the services listed below: (1) private
line service which is not directly or indirectly used for the origination or
termination of switched telecommunications service, (2) cellular radio service,
(3) high-speed point-to-point data transmission at or above 9.6 kilobits, (4)
the provision of telecommunications service by a company or person otherwise
subject to subsection (c) of Section 13-202 to a telecommunications carrier,
which is
incidental to the provision of service subject to subsection (c) of Section
13-202; (5) pay
telephone service; or (6) interexchange telecommunications service.
The customer
may
cease contributing at any time upon providing notice to the telecommunications
carrier. The notice shall state that any contribution made will not reduce the
customer's bill for telecommunications services. Failure to remit the amount
of increased payment will reduce the contribution accordingly. The Commission
shall specify the monthly fixed amount or amounts that customers wishing to
contribute to the funding of the Program to Foster Elimination of the Digital
Divide may choose from in making their contributions. A telecommunications
carrier subject to this obligation shall remit the amounts contributed by
its customers to the Department
of Commerce and Economic Opportunity for deposit in the Digital Divide Elimination
Fund at the intervals specified in the Commission rules.
(Source: P.A. 100-20, eff. 7-1-17.)
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