S.F. No. 0078            Telecommunications.

Sponsored by: Joint Corporations, Elections and Political Subdivisions Interim Committee

AN ACT relating to telecommunications; recognizing competition from alternate providers; requiring certificates of public convenience and necessity for all telecommunications providers; repealing cost based pricing; providing for downward pricing flexibility for telecommunications services; providing a limitation on increasing prices for essential telecommunications services; limiting annual reports by the public service commission; repealing anachronistic provisions; providing for hearings on unreasonable or discriminatory competitive, wholesale and switched access pricing; eliminating mandatory quality of service studies; and providing for an effective date.

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