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.
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