Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken!telecom-request From: ho@hoss.unl.edu (Tiny Bubbles...) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Telephone Monopoly in Delaware Ends Message-ID: Date: 24 Mar 91 05:41:37 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 32 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 235, Message 2 of 10 In weave@chopin.udel.edu (Ken Weaverling) writes: [competition within states] > *Is* this a trend across the country? I don't know. Nebraska is highly deregulated; the PUC -- we call it a PSC, or Public Service Commission, here -- has *NO* authority to question a local company's rate increase unless a petition of complaint, signed by 3% of the subscribers, is received. (I believe it's 3%. If I'm wrong, it's 5%. It certainly isn't lower.) As such, all of my in-state long-distance calls -- regardless of LATA crossovers -- go to my Dial-1 carrier. At least, I know this is true for US West <-> US West and US West <-> LincolnTel. I don't know if it is true for LincolnTel <-> LincolnTel, as there's nothing else in LincolnTel territory that I care about (lots of corn, few people). It appears that when a call is "close enough," the call goes by default to the BOC -- such as from Omaha to Blair, a 10-mile call -- but that can be overridden by 10xxx. (An example of deregulation: It cost me $65 to get a phone installed in US West territory. Is that unusual in the outside world? It only cost $25 or so here under LincolnTel.) Michael Ho, University of Nebraska Internet: ho@hoss.unl.edu Disclaimer: Views expressed within are purely personal and should not be applied to any university agency.