Section 2. Legislative findings.
The General Assembly finds and declares as follows:
(1) Growth and enhancement of services using Internet
protocol technology provide Pennsylvania consumers more
choice in voice, data and video service than at any other
time.
(2) The proliferation of new technologies and
applications and a growing number of providers developing and
offering innovative services using Internet protocol is due
in large part to little regulation, including freedom from
regulations governing traditional telephone service, that
these new technologies and the companies that offer them have
enjoyed in this Commonwealth. The economic benefits,
including consumer choice, new jobs and significant capital
investment, will be jeopardized and competition minimized by
the imposition of traditional State entry and rate regulation
on voice-over-Internet protocol and Internet protocol-enabled
services.