Bill Deregulating Phone Rates Nears Vote
Tuesday May 3, 2005 Birmingham News

A state senator is hoping to gain final approval today for a bill that would deregulate some landline telephone service and allow automatic increases in basic service rates each year. Sen. Hap Myers, R-Mobile, said he will do his best to get the Senate to pass the phone bill today. The bill would allow BellSouth and other landline phone companies to raise basic service rates automatically each year based on a key measure of inflation. It also would reduce the state Public Service Commission's regulation of BellSouth and other landline phone companies. They face growing competition from cell phone companies and cable companies, which are not regulated by the PSC. But all three commissioners who run the PSC oppose the bill and say it would lead to poorer quality of service and higher rates. The PSC for decades has controlled rates and regulated the quality ...

Progress Energy Florida Files Base Rate Plan With PSC
Monday May 2, 2005 i-Newswire

Bohn Named to Public Utilities Commission
Tuesday May 3, 2005 San Francisco Business Times

Atlanta Gas Light Files to Stay PSC Decision
Friday April 29, 2005 Atlanta Business Chronicle

FCC
Order on Reconsideration

Herein the Federal Communications Commission denies BellSouth and SBC's petition seeking reconsideration to the Commission's 2001 SLI/DA Order requiring LECs to provide nondiscriminatory access to their local directory assistance databases to competing directory assistance providers that are certified as competitive LECs. The Commission also found that even though certain elements of directory assistance and directory publishing occasionally resemble one another, any seeming ...

Michigan
Order

Herein the Michigan Public Service Commission (PSC) responds to the state's competitive local exchange carriers' (CLECs) argument that the PSC has the authority and the responsibility to require ILECs to continue providing Unbundled Network Elements (UNEs) pursuant to state law. The commission finds that requiring the continued provision of UNE-P would be inconsistent with FCC's detailed findings and plan for transition in the TRRO. The commission orders for the renegotiation of ...

And track the history of unbundling efforts through regulatory commissions and the courts.