Universal Telephone Service Preservation Act of 1983

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Universal Telephone Service Preservation Act of 1983 - Provides that, effective as of enactment, the decisions and orders of the Federal Communication Commission in C.C. docket numbered 78-72 (relating to telecommunication exchange access charges) shall cease to have effect. Amends the Communications Act of 1934 to require each State commission having jurisdiction over telephone companies to establish a system of charges to compensate exchange common carriers for interexchange access. Declares that the purposes of such system of charges shall be: (1) to compensate exchange common carriers for all costs associated with providing or making available interexchange access; (2) to achieve equitable treatment of all interexchange carriers and other persons who benefit from the services and facilities of each exchange common carrier, and to prevent contributions between exchange services or functions and interexchange services or functions of such carriers, except as provided below; (3) to ensure the continued universal availability of communications service provided by exchange common carriers at reasonable and affordable charges; (4) to assure that payments and assignments of costs rela…