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program service, or other Cable Service including, without limitation, Installation, disconnection, reconnection, and change -in-service fees; Lockout Device fees; Leased Access Channel fees; late fees and administrative fees; fees, payments or other consideration received from programmers for carriage of programming on the System and accounted for as revenue under GAAP; revenues from rentals or sales of Set Top Boxes or other equipment; fees related to commercial and institutional usage of the System; advertising revenues; interest; barter; revenues from program guides; franchise fees; and revenues to the System from home shopping, bank -at-home channels and other revenue sharing arrangements. Gross Revenues shall include revenues received by an entity other than the Grantee, an Affiliate or another entity that operates the System where necessary to prevent evasion or avoidance of the Grantee's obligation under this Franchise to pay the franchise fee. Gross Revenues shall not include: (i) to the extent consistent with generally accepted accounting principles, actual bad debt write-offs, provided, however, that all or part of any such actual bad debt that is written off but subsequently collected shall be included in Gross Revenues in the period collected; (ii) any taxes on services furnished by the Grantee imposed by any municipality, state or other governmental unit, provided that franchise fees shall not be regarded as such a tax; (iii) FCC regulatory fees; (iv) Subscriber credits, adjustments or refunds; (v) PEG Fees; or (vi) refundable Subscriber deposits. 1.2.17 "Household" means a distinct address in the Qwest Corporation ("QC") network database, whether a residence or small business, subscribing to or being offered cable service. Grantee represents and warrants that it has access to the QC network database and shall demonstrate to the City's reasonable satisfaction how the data required in Section 2 are calculated and reported using the QC network database. 1.2.18 "Installation" means the connection of the System from feeder cable to the point of connection with the Subscriber Set Top Boxes or other terminal equipment. 1.2.19 "Leased Access Channel" means channels on the System which are designated or dedicated for use by a Person unaffiliated with the Grantee pursuant to 47 U.S.C. § 532. 1.2.20 "Lockout Device" means an optional mechanical or electrical accessory to a Subscriber's terminal, which inhibits the viewing of a certain program, certain channel or certain channels provided by way of the Cable System. 1.2.21 "Node" means the transition point between optical light transmission (fiber-optic cable) and the transmission of video and data signals being delivered to and received from the Subscriber's home. 1.2.22 "Noncommercial" means, in the context of PEG channels, that particular products and services are not promoted or sold. This term shall not be interpreted to prohibit a PEG channel operator or programmer from soliciting and receiving 4