Arkansas passed a law on the implications of...
Arkansas passed a law on the implications of communications companies posting their prices. If it’s authorized to offer such telecom services, if “a competing local exchange carrier, or an interexchange carrier posts on a publicly accessible Internet website its generally…
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available prices and terms of service for telecommunications services, the electing company, competing local exchange carrier, or interexchange carrier is not required to file or maintain with the [state regulatory] commission any tariff or price list setting forth the rates, rentals, charges, privileges, facilities, rules, regulations, or forms of contract for telecommunications services,” said the text of what’s now Act 1098 (http://bit.ly/14hfHrx). The law, originally known as Senate Bill 948, also specifies that the commission can’t regulate commercial mobile and VoIP services and providers except in certain ways regarding universal service and Sections 251 and 252 of the U.S. Communications Act. Arkansas passed a law earlier this year restricting state regulation of VoIP.