Vermont is moving toward an open-entry market in which a diversified group of competing providers offer their own sets of services to Vermont's residential and business subscribers and the state's public and private institutions. As a major purchaser of telecommunications service, state government plays an important role in encouraging a broader and more diversified range of offerings in the Vermont telecommunications market. Review and revision of this Plan occurs regularly, in accordance with state statute. This 2000 Vermont Telecommunications Plan is posted to the World Wide Web, and the adopted Plan will be published as an electronic document so as to enable us to offer the benefits of hypertext, which provides the reader with links to non-sequential blocks of text. It will be simultaneously published in a printed version, on paper, to satisfy the statutory requirements for such a document.
Telecommunications providers remain responsible for their own management decisions.
Write or come to our office at the address below and request a copy. This Vermont Telecommunications Plan is also available at the state libraries and Regional Planning Commission Offices. Contributions were also made by other members of the DPS staff, including Sharon Allen, Leslie Cadwell, Christopher Campbell, John Cotter, Sean Foley, Deena Frankel, Mary Garcia, Sarah Hofmann, Sheldon Katz, Charles Larkin, Susan Martin, Robert McIntyre, John Sayles, Richard Sedano, and Bennett Truman. Last but not least we want to thank the many public spirited Vermonters that contributed ideas and comments to the Plan. Under Vermont statute, telecommunications service is defined twice.