Illinois Consolidated Telephone Co. v. Illinois Commerce Commission

We must consider on this appeal the authority of the Illinois Commerce Commission to regulate radio paging. The Commission granted Aircall Communications, Inc. (Aircall), a certificate of public convenience and necessity to operate a one-way radio paging business within an 18-mile radius of the village of Loxa in the Charleston-Mattoon area. Aircall proposed to provide tone-only and tone-and-voice paging services. At the time Aircall sought the certificate, Illinois Consolidated Telephone Company was already operating a paging service in the area involved pursuant to a certificate which had…