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The Wireline Competition Bureau develops and recommends policy goals,
objectives, programs and plans for the Commission on matters concerning
wireline telecommunications. The Wireline Competition Bureau’s overall
objectives include: ensuring choice, opportunity, and fairness in the
development of wireline telecommunications services and markets; developing
deregulatory initiatives; promoting economically efficient investment
in wireline telecommunications infrastructure; promoting the development
and widespread availability of wireline telecommunications services; and
fostering economic growth. The Bureau is organized into four divisions
and an Administrative and Management Office.
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The Administrative and Management Office
oversees the direction of all Bureau-wide management and administrative
programs.
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The Competition
Policy Division’s primary mission is to foster competition in
the provision of telecommunications services through market-opening
rulemaking and adjudicatory proceedings affecting wireline telecommunications
service providers.
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The Pricing
Policy Division administers the provisions of the Communications
Act requiring that the charges, practices, classifications, and regulations
of communications common carriers providing interstate and foreign
services are just and reasonable.
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The Telecommunications
Access Policy Division’s primary mission is to advance the goals
of universal service that all consumers in the Nation have access
to quality telecommunications and information services at affordable
rates, and to administer numbering resources.
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The Industry
Analysis and Technology Division provides economic, financial,
and technical analyses of telecommunications markets to the Bureau,
and the Commission.
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