Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. v. Iowa State Commerce Commission

UHLENHOPP, Justice.

This appeal involves issues which arose in a proceeding to set intrastate rates of Northwestern Bell Telephone Company (Bell) for a period prior to divestiture of Bell by American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT & T). During that period Bell was a subsidiary corporation of AT & T. We first briefly describe the statutory regulatory scheme. The applicable statutes are those in the Iowa Code of 1983; our citations are to that Code unless otherwise stated.

A public utility, including a corporation furnishing communications services to the public for compensation, § 476.1(2),…