Group of business users urged FCC to take hard look at BellSouth ...
Group of business users urged FCC to take hard look at BellSouth tariff proposing to raise business PICC (presubscribed interexchange carrier charge) rates 15% to help recover costs of implementing 1,000-block number pooling. FCC on Fri. suspended tariff and…
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set it for investigation (CD May 13 p6) in response to petitions by AT&T and WorldCom. In ex parte filing Tues., American Petroleum Institute, eCommerce & Telecommunications Users Group and National Retail Federation said BellSouth hadn’t proved its costs were justified and allowed under FCC rules. User groups told agency that AT&T and WorldCom “raised a number of compelling concerns that warrant Commission action to prevent BellSouth from padding its books with higher PICC revenues at the expense of the rest of American business.”