Bill Information

An Act amending Title 66 (Public Utilities) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, providing for telecommunications competition and universal broadband deployment; further providing for definitions; creating the Information Highway Development Board; providing for alternative form of regulation of incumbent local exchange telecommunications companies; providing for incumbent local exchange carrier obligations, for competitive safeguards, for compliance with requirements and penalties and for Lifeline and Link Up service discounts; enhancing the deployment of advanced broadband telecommunications technology to all geographic areas of this Commonwealth by promoting robust and irreversible competition between a wide variety of service providers on equal and nondiscriminatory terms and conditions and by providing a funding mechanism to assist in universal broadband deployment.