476.95 - FINDINGS -- STATEMENT OF POLICY.

        476.95  FINDINGS -- STATEMENT OF POLICY.         The general assembly finds all of the following:         1.  Communications services should be available throughout the      state at just, reasonable, and affordable rates from a variety of      providers.         2.  In rendering decisions with respect to regulation of      telecommunications companies, the board shall consider the effects of      its decisions on competition in telecommunications markets and, to      the extent reasonable and lawful, shall act to further the      development of competition in those markets.         3.  In order to encourage competition for all telecommunications      services, the board should address issues relating to the movement of      prices toward cost and the removal of subsidies in the existing price      structure of the incumbent local exchange carrier.         4.  Regulatory flexibility is appropriate when competition      provides customers with competitive choices in the variety, quality,      and pricing of communications services, and when consistent with      consumer protection and other relevant public interests.         5.  The board should respond with speed and flexibility to changes      in the communications industry.         6.  Economic development can be fostered by the existence of      advanced communications networks.  
         Section History: Recent Form
         95 Acts, ch 199, §6         Referred to in § 476.1B, 476.96, 476.102