Rural Telephone Service Co. v. Kansas Corporation Comm'n

Johnson, J.:

Rural Telephone Service Company, Inc. (Rural) appeals from the final order of the Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC or Commission) which approved Rural's revised rate tariffs, but which also reduced the payments Rural receives from the Kansas Universal Service Fund (KUSF) in order to offset the increased revenue the Commission estimated would be generated by the revised tariffs. We reverse and remand for further proceedings.

Rural is a rate of return KCC-regulated class B telephone utility having less than 20,000 access lines. Rural commenced the case now before us by filing an…