A federal court affirmed a July 2004 Pa. PUC decision setting rat...
A federal court affirmed a July 2004 Pa. PUC decision setting rates for Verizon’s unbundled network elements (UNE). Verizon appealed the rate order to the U.S. Dist. Court, Philadelphia, claiming the rates were so low as to be confiscatory…
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and were unsupported by substantial evidence (Case 04-3886). The PUC in that order cut Verizon UNE rates in urban areas by 30% while raising them 25% in rural areas. The PUC also reduced Verizon’s DS-1 loop rates statewide, by an average 33%. It was the PUC’s 3rd attempt to set permanent UNE rates. Several CLECs intervened in the case, arguing that the PUC had set UNE rates too high, based on overstated Verizon costs. But the court concluded that the rates adopted by the PUC were consistent with the federal Telecom Act and the FCC’s TELRIC costing methodology.