The West Virginia Public Service Commission approved a 65 percent...
The West Virginia Public Service Commission approved a 65 percent rate increase for Verizon’s statewide bundled E- 911 service, to $182 per 1,000 lines from $110. The PSC dismissed Kanawha County objections that the increase had no basis in…
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cost, saying Verizon no longer uses rate-of-return costing principles (Case 04-0102-T-GI). The PSC dealt with counties’ affordability concerns by phasing the rate increase over four years and accepting a Verizon proposal to reclassify its E-911 service as workably competitive and offer selective routing, automatic number ID and automatic line ID components on an unbundled tariffed basis, so counties can seek other providers of E-911 database- management services.