SBC and several other Ark. incumbent telcos asked the Ark. PSC to...
SBC and several other Ark. incumbent telcos asked the Ark. PSC to permit revisions in the Rural Saver Optional Calling Plan they are required to offer to customers in rural exchanges under the state’s universal service program. The carriers…
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(Case 03-082-U) said the plan hadn’t been popular with customers, defeating the PSC’s whole purpose in requiring that it be offered. The telcos said the PSC needed to double the monthly intraLATA toll call allowance to 2 hours monthly from one hour while keeping the fee at $2.50 monthly, and expand availability of the plan to include exchanges with 3,000 access lines. It now is limited to those with 2,600 lines. The carriers also wanted the PSC to expand usage data reports for the program and to allow the companies to recover the additional costs of the proposed revisions from the Ark. Calling Plan Fund that supports this subsidized toll offering.