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Kansas lawmakers continued to advance a telecom deregulation bill last week. The Senate approved 36-4 an amended version of House Bill 2201 and returned it to the House, which had previously approved it 118-1. One proposed amendment was accepted, and…
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one was canceled, but neither substantively proposed to change the industry-backed bill. The bill proposes the creation of a Telecom Study Committee, a request to the Kansas Corporation Commission to report on IP-to-IP interconnection issues, a change to how the state USF functions and the removal of certain carrier-of-last-resort obligations, among others, according to the bill’s latest supplemental note (http://bit.ly/YO3b0z).