Sec. 42.05.800. Findings.

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The legislature finds that

(1)modern, affordable, efficient, and universally available local and long distance telephone service is essential to the people of the state;

(2)facilities based, long distance telephone service should be provided competitively wherever possible;

(3)technological advances, reduced costs, and increased consumer choices for long distance telephone service, resulting from the adoption of an appropriate competitive market structure, will enhance the state's economic development;

(4)the benefits of competition in long distance telephone service should be shared by consumers throughout the state;

(5)the commission should oversee competition in long distance telephone service to ensure that the competition is fair to consumers and competitors;

(6)the commission should provide for competition in a timely manner and should adopt regulations that eliminate inappropriate impediments to entry for long distance carriers fit, willing, and able to provide service.