State ex rel. Utilities Commission v. Carolina Telephone & Telegraph Co.

JOHNSON, Judge.

DEFENDANT’S APPEAL

In our recent decision in Utilities Commission and The New Telephone Co. v. Central Telephone Co., --- N.C. App. ---, --- S.E. 2d --- (No. 8210UC372, filed 18 January 1983), we held that the Commission had properly included the revenues and expenses from yellow page advertising in computing Central Telephone Company’s gross revenues and expenses on three grounds: (1) that the furnishing of classified advertising by a telephone company is an essential part of the service it provides; (2) that there was an insufficient demonstration of competition for…