Common use of Equipment Covered Clause in Contracts

Equipment Covered. 2.1. This Voluntary Agreement covers only new Set-Top Boxes, as defined in Annex 1, ordered and placed into service in the United States by a Service Provider after the Effective Date. There is no retroactive effect on equipment that is deployed or in inventory prior to the Effective Date, nor is there any requirement to retire or change existing equipment or to change existing equipment that is returned to the Service Provider and refurbished, repaired, and/or upgraded, and then redeployed 2.2. The Signatories will consider modifications to the definition of Set-Top Box in Annex 1 in the event that a new type of Service Provider-supplied equipment that uses a customer’s electricity to deliver residential multichannel video services represents a materially significant amount of energy use.