In re Tariff Filing of New England Telephone & Telegraph Co.

The Department of Public Service (Department) has filed a motion for stay of a Public.Service Board (Board) *311order, issued September 21, 1984, granting a $3,253,000 rate increase to New England Telephone and Telegraph Company (NET). The increase, “based entirely upon changes in depreciation rates and policies,” was not to go into effect, however, until NET had received authorization from the staff of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to begin booking its newly proposed depreciation rates. On October 12, 1984, the staff of the FCC gave NET permission to begin booking its proposed…