New Jersey § 48:2-21
Full text of New Jersey New Jersey Statutes § 48:2-21, with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 48:2-21.
a. The Legislature finds and declares that it is the policy of the State to: (1) Maintain universal telecommunications service at affordable rates. (2) Ensure that customers pay only reasonable charges for local exchange telecommunications
services, which shall be available on a non-discriminatory basis. (3) Ensure that rates for noncompetitive telecommunications services do not subsidize
the competitive ventures of providers of telecommunications service. (4) Provide diversity in the supply of telecommunications services and products in
telecommunications markets throughout the State. (5) Permit the board the authority to approve alternative forms of regulation in order
to address changes in technology and the structure of the telecommunications industry;
to modify the regulation of competitive services; and to promote economic development. b. The Legislature further finds and declares that: (1) In a competitive marketplace, traditional utility regulation is not necessary
to protect the public interest and that competition will promote efficiency, reduce
regulatory delay, and foster productivity and innovation. (2) Whether measured by the number of interexchange companies operating in New Jersey,
the variety and number of services and/or competitive alternatives, or barriers to
entry, the interexchange telecommunications marketplace in New Jersey is sufficiently
competitive to relieve interexchange telecommunications carriers from traditional
utility regulation. (3) Permitting the competitive interexchange telecommunications marketplace to operate
without traditional utility regulation will produce a wider selection of services
at competitive market-based prices. (4) The board has found the interexchange telecommunications market place sufficiently
competitive to relieve interexchange carriers from traditional utility regulation
but found it lacked the authority to eliminate unnecessary regulatory constraints
under the existing public utility statute. (5) It is in the public interest to relieve interexchange telecommunications carriers
from traditional utility regulation.
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