Investigation Into Three Special Contracts Filed by New England Tel. & Tel. Co.

New England Telephone and Telegraph Company d/b/a Verizon appeals from an order of the Public Service Board denying approval of five special contracts between Verizon and individual business customers. Verizon claims that the Board erred in applying its pricing rules for special contracts by (1) requiring shared and common fixed costs to be included in the price floor of a special-contract service, (2) expanding the definition of a bottleneck facility to include facilities that are not essential to a competitor’s ability to provide equivalent service, and (3) holding that volume discounts…