Chickasaw Telephone Co. v. Corporation Commission

BERRY, Justice:

Petitioners filed a complaint with Corporation Commission [Commission] in December 1974, seeking to compel Southwestern Bell Telephone Company [respondent] to provide certain local exchange operator services to independent telephone companies at rates established by Commission.

Prior to this dispute, respondent provided this service to petitioners, and others, on an inter-company contract basis. In 1973 respondent decided to raise the charge for this service from 10.5 cents per month for each main telephone served to 20 cents per month during 1974 and 30 cents per month…