Utah Code 54-8b-1.1. Legislative policy declarations
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The 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