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Article: TOWNSEND ORDERS PHONE RATE STUDY BE EXTENDED / EAGLETON DECRIES COST
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- THE JOURNAL RECORD
- Article date:
- September 2, 1987
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As Oklahoma Corporation Commission Chairman Jim Townsend directed the
commission's public utility division to extend a study of Oklahoma
telephone rates before and after divestiture, Commissioner Norma
Eagleton Tuesday decried the use of commission funds to complete the
study and urged the commission to return to a triumvirate.
The study, released Thursday, determined that 75 percent of
rural residential telephone customers are paying more for their
local telephone service after the 1984 divestiture of American
Telephone & Telegraph Co.
The study cost the commission $14,597 in 810 staff hours spent
on researching the material, travel for gathering the information
and printing the ...