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Committee passes broad telecom‑law rewrite, adds prepaid USF charge and clarifies competition rules
Summary
The committee passed comprehensive revisions to the Wyoming Telecommunications Act that reorganize regulatory coverage, add a prepaid wireless contribution to the Universal Service Fund (effective 07/01/2026), refine definitions of noncompetitive local exchange service, and set a location‑based approach for competition determinations.
Lawmakers approved a broad revision of Wyoming’s telecommunications statutes aimed at clarifying what services remain regulated and how universal‑service funding is administered.
Staff said the package (25LSO203) is the product of months of a multi‑stakeholder working group and mostly reorganizes existing law while making targeted changes: it extends certain sunsets to 2031, narrows regulation to ‘‘noncompetitive essential telecommunication service’’ (local…
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