Lubbock Radio Paging Service, Inc. v. Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.

KEITH, Justice.

This is a consolidated appeal from separate judgments of the District Court of Travis County sustaining orders of the Public Utility Commission (“PUC”) granting certificates of public convenience and necessity to Southwestern Bell Telephone Company (“Bell”) authorizing the operation of a radio-paging service in five regions of the State. We affirm.

Bell filed five separate applications to furnish different areas 1 in the State with such service. Other entities were then providing similar, but not identical, service to that proposed by Bell for each region. Each competing entity…