Mo. PSC suspended for 4 months Southwestern Bell Telephone (SBT) ...
Mo. PSC suspended for 4 months Southwestern Bell Telephone (SBT) proposed tariff change to introduce 24-cent “payphone use charge” on all calls placed from its payphones using credit cards, prepaid or postpaid calling cards, 3rd-number billing or collect calling.…
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PSC staff said fee would violate terms of SBT price cap regulation agreement that bans increases above current cap levels on local services, including payphones, without cost justification. SBT said fee wasn’t rate increase, just cost recovery mechanism to recoup cost of per-call compensation FCC requires incumbent telcos to pay to other payphone service providers and that FCC expressly allows to be passed on to phone users. PSC said main issue was whether usage fee was appropriate under price cap agreement. Intervenor registration deadline is May 16.