Indiana Payphone Ass'n v. Indiana Bell Telephone Co.

OPINION

BAKER, Judge.

Appellant-complainant, The Indiana Payphone Association [IPA], appeals the determination of the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission [Commission] that Appellee-re-spondent, Indiana Bell Telephone Company [Bell], had not engaged in certain illegal, anticompetitive practices in the payphone business. Specifically, IPA has made the following allegations: 1) the rates charged to Independent Payphone Providers [IPPs] by Bell for access to the telephone network are excessive, creating an anti-competitive, bottleneck monopolist price squeeze; 2) Bell’s ‘Winback” program, which…