Bluestem Telephone Co. v. Kansas Corporation Comm'n

Hill, J.:

After the deregulation of public utilities in this country, the Kansas Legislature created the Kansas Universal Service Fund (KUSF) that would distribute money to telecommunication companies including rural telecommunication companies that provide telephone service to sparsely populated areas of the state. The Kansas Corporation Commission, charged with overseeing this fund, decided to distribute the fund to rural companies on a per-line basis and not according to “embedded costs” as set out in the statute. A number of rural telecommunication companies comprising the State…