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Florida Regulators Ask What Savings Will Come from Local Phone Rate Increases.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, November, 2003
By Rocky Scott, Tallahassee Democrat, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Nov. 4--Public Service Commission members thwarted efforts Monday to derail a proposed $355million local phone-rate increase but also criticized phone companies for not providing information to show that the increase would result in long-distance savings for Florida residents.
"The reality is, I want to see where the majority of the benefits are," said PSC Chairwoman Lila J. Jaber, the only commissioner who voted to support a motion by the AARP that sought to have the rate request dismissed.
Commissioners then voted to require long-distance companies supplying service to Florida residents to file more specific information that would show how the rate...
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