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Florida Lowers Rates Alternative Phone Companies Must Pay BellSouth.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, April, 2001
By Christopher Boyd, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 19--The Florida Public Service Commission gave the state's alternative phone companies a break Wednesday, deciding to lower many of the rates they must pay BellSouth Corp. to use the giant provider's telecommunications network.
In a marathon session in Tallahassee, the commission reviewed a 632-page staff rate-setting recommendation and repeatedly decided to reduce rates. Though telecommunications companies won't know what the revisions will be until they run computations, they declared victory.
"We are cautiously optimistic," AT&T Corp. spokesman Gus Alfonso said. "We felt that the direction that things went was generally positive, though it is...
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