The Ohio PUC allowed Champaign Telephone to become the first of t...
The Ohio PUC allowed Champaign Telephone to become the first of the state’s 38 small incumbent telcos to shift from rate-of-return regulation to an alternative price-based program. The company agreed to freeze basic exchange and basic caller ID rates…
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for the program’s life, and to cap rates for 2nd residential lines, call waiting and certain specialty business services for 24 months. After that, rates for these services can rise up to an absolute cap set at double current rates. Rates for all other retail services are deregulated. The PUC (Case 06-651-TP-ALT) dismissed Office of Consumer Counsel objections that competition in Champaign’s service area is insufficient to warrant regulatory relaxation.