N.H. legislature passed bill to require state’s PUC to conduct st...
N.H. legislature passed bill to require state’s PUC to conduct study into whether N.H. needed state universal service fund (USF) and, if yes, to propose rules for implementation. Measure (HB-402) doesn’t create state fund but was passed to provide…
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legislature with information to be used in considering any future bill to authorize state USF. Measure directs PUC to assume that all intrastate telecom providers, including wireless phone and paging companies, will contribute to fund, that fund must provide support for low-income customers and may support public interest payphones at needed but unprofitable locations. Bill directs PUC to estimate costs and suggest services to be included in state universal service entitlement. It doesn’t specify timetable for PUC to conduct USF study