The State - News from June 19, 1985
In a rare legislative rebuke to the state Public Utilities Commission, the Assembly Ways and Means Committee voted 12 to 8 to revoke a commission decision last week that would shift to the bills of residential customers $140 million in “access charges” that long-distance telephone carriers pay local phone companies. The charges are intended to compensate the local companies for originating and completing long-distance calls--a cost formerly covered by internal subsidies within the old Bell System.
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