{"id":12589,"date":"2012-01-06T16:25:50","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T21:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=12589"},"modified":"2012-01-06T16:26:52","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T21:26:52","slug":"time-running-short-for-nj-legislature-to-enact-meaningful-telecom-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/12589\/time-running-short-for-nj-legislature-to-enact-meaningful-telecom-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Running Short for NJ Legislature to Enact Meaningful Telecom Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the New Jersey state Senate session ending this coming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.njleg.state.nj.us\/legislativepub\/calendar\/010612.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Monday<\/a>, January 9, time is running short for it to enact common-sense telecom reform.<\/p>\n<p>This past year, state Senator Raymond Lesniak (D) introduced S-2664, which would modernize New Jersey government rules for the  telecommunications industry by eliminating unnecessary and costly red  tape that hampers investment and growth.\u00a0 The bill passed in the New Jersey State Assembly with overwhelming bi-partisan support, but now the State Senate must act.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed legislation preserves  important consumer protections, but at the same time modernizes the outdated  regulatory structure developed when the primary means of communication  was a rotary telephone.\u00a0 In our modern marketplace, regulations must reflect evolving realities, but without these reforms New  Jersey risks losing valuable ground.\u00a0 Unless changes are made, telecommunications providers will be discouraged from increasing investment and innovation in New Jersey, so it\u2019s in the state\u2019s best interest to stay on the cutting  edge of telecommunications technologies and the jobs they provide.<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, the Senate should enact S-2664 in the time that remains.\u00a0 There is simply no  reason to delay the reforms outlined in Senator Lesniak\u2019s legislation,  which New Jersey needs to ensure a more prosperous  future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the New Jersey state Senate session ending this coming Monday, January 9, time is running short for it to enact common-sense telecom reform. This past year, state Senator Raymond Lesniak (D) introduced S-2664, which would modernize New Jersey government rules for the telecommunications industry by eliminating unnecessary and costly red tape that hampers investment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[410,3245,3244,2566],"class_list":["post-12589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-new-jersey","tag-s-2664","tag-telecom","tag-telecommunications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12595,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12589\/revisions\/12595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}