Section 54-8b-1.1 - Legislative policy declarationsThe Legislature declares it is the policy of the state to:
(1) endeavor to achieve the universal service objectives of the state as set forth in Section 54-8b-11;(2) facilitate access to high quality, affordable public telecommunications services to all residents and businesses in the state;(3) encourage the development of competition as a means of providing wider customer choices for public telecommunications services throughout the state;(4) allow flexible and reduced regulation for telecommunications corporations and public telecommunications services as competition develops;(5) facilitate and promote the efficient development and deployment of an advanced telecommunications infrastructure, including networks with nondiscriminatory prices, terms, and conditions of interconnection;(6) encourage competition by facilitating the sale of essential telecommunications facilities and services on a reasonably unbundled basis;(7) seek to prevent prices for tariffed public telecommunications services or price-regulated services from subsidizing the competitive activities of regulated telecommunications corporations;(8) encourage new technologies and modify regulatory policy to allow greater competition in the telecommunications industry;(9) enhance the general welfare and encourage the growth of the economy of the state through increased competition in the telecommunications industry; and(10) endeavor to protect customers who do not have competitive choice.Enacted by Chapter 269, 1995 General Session