The Wisconsin Public Service Commission seeks comment by Oct. 23 ...
The Wisconsin Public Service Commission seeks comment by Oct. 23 on a staff report on urban telecom competition. The report said AT&T has lost almost 52 percent of its local access lines in the state’s 17 largest cities the…
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last 8 years while increasing its residential basic exchange rate in those cities by 75 percent since urban basic exchange rates were deregulated in 2005 -- to $14.55 from $8.20 monthly. The report (Case 6720-TI-196) said historic wireline competitors had only a 4.3 percent share in the 17 cities, but intermodal competitors (cable, wireless, VoIP) had a 47.6 percent share there. A 2005 rate deregulation and subsequent urban rate increases by AT&T boosted the ceiling rate paid by Lifeline subscribers by 55 percent, it said. The report said if urban rate increases keep to the pace set since 2005, the state will have to raise the cap on Lifeline rates or enlarge the state universal service fund.