The Vt. Public Service Board (PSB) directed wireless carriers to ...
The Vt. Public Service Board (PSB) directed wireless carriers to explain the local number portability and number pooling fees they have been billing to their customers. The PSC gave the carriers until July 7 to provide copies of customer…
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bills listing the fees they charge. The PSB said it wanted carriers to explain why they were trying to recover their number portability costs before portability had been implemented. The PSB also wants to see whether the charge is being billed as a tax or as a govt.-mandated fee when it actually is being billed at the carrier’s option as a cost- recovery mechanism. The PSB also wanted carriers to explain why such a fee wouldn’t be a rate increase barred by their service contracts. In another matter, a PSB hearing examiner recommended approval of a Verizon proposal to increase the state universal service fee to 1.27% from 1.2%. Examiner Thomas Lyle said he wasn’t sure the increase really was needed because Verizon relied on very conservative projections, and the fund carried forward $1 million into fiscal 2003 -- 33% more than expected.