State ex rel. MoKan Dial, Inc. v. Public Service Commission

LOWENSTEIN, Presiding Judge.

Short as many abbreviations, acronyms and jargon as possible, this case involves the Public Service Commission’s (Commission) effort to find a more equitable way of inter-telephone company compensation, where a phone customer makes or receives what is commonly termed a “toll call” — a call to a number in a different exchange, but in a relatively close geographical area. Prior to this effort, larger telecommunications companies such as Southwestern Bell, United Telephone and GTE, would connect the “toll calls,” and then would settle up with the smaller company,…