Deaderick Paging Co. v. Tennessee Public Service Commission

OPINION

CANTRELL, Judge.

The issue in this case is whether the Tennessee Public Service Commission could validly approve a transfer of South Central Bell Telephone Company’s radio paging service (which it operated without a radio common carrier’s license because of its land line telephone system) to A+ Communications, Inc. which had neither a radio common carrier’s license nor a land line telephone system. We hold that in approving the transfer the Tennessee Public Service Commission exceeded its authority.

I

South Central Bell Telephone Company (“Bell”) operates a land line telephone service in…