STATE EX REL. MID-MISSOURI TEL. v. PSC

No. WD 46355.

867 S.W.2d 561 (1993)

STATE of Missouri, ex rel. MID-MISSOURI TELEPHONE COMPANY, Chariton Valley Telephone Corporation, Wheeling Telephone Company, Mokan Dial, Inc., Green Hills Telephone Company, Northeast Missouri Rural Telephone Company, Choctaw Telephone Company, and KLM Telephone Company, Appellants, v. The PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION OF MISSOURI and Office of the Public Counsel, Respondents, and Alltel Missouri, Inc., Southwestern Bell Telephone Company, GTE North Inc., Contel of Missouri, Inc., Contel System of Missouri, Kansas State Telephone Company d/b/a Contel of Eastern Missouri, Citizens Telephone Company, Fidelity Telephone Company, United Telephone Company of Missouri, Cybertel Cellular Telephone Company, Competitive Telecommunications Association of Missouri, MCI Telecommunications Corporation, AT & T Telecommunications of the Southwest, Inc., and Cities of Oak Grove, Independence, Excelsior Springs, Platte City, Ozark and the County of Jackson, Intervenors.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District.

Motion for Rehearing and/or Transfer Denied November 30, 1993.

Application to Transfer Denied January 25, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Craig Steven Johnson, Jefferson City, for appellants.

Randy Bakewell, Asst. Public Counsel, Office of Public Counsel, Robert J. Hack, Deputy Gen. Counsel, Public Service Com'n, Jefferson City, for respondents.

W.R. England, Sondra B. Morgan, Jefferson City, for Citizens Telephone Co., GTE North Inc., Contel of MO, Inc., Contel System of MO, Inc., Kansas State Telephone Co. d/b/a Contel of Eastern MO, and Fidelity Telephone Co.

H. Edward Skinner, Little Rock, AR, for Alltel MO, Inc.

Katherine C. Swaller, St. Louis, for Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.

Thomas Grimaldi, Overland Park, for United Telephone Co. of MO.

Richard S. Brownlee, III, Jefferson City, for Cybertel Cellular Telephone Co., Competitive Telecommunications Ass'n of MO.

Carl Lumley, Clayton, for MCI Telecommunications Corp.

Paul DeFord, Kansas City, for AT & T Telecommunications of Southwest, Inc.

Jeremiah D. Finnegan, Kansas City, for Cities of Oakgrove, Independence, Excelsior Springs, Platte City, Ozark, and County of Jackson.

Before KENNEDY, P.J., and BERREY and SPINDEN, JJ.


Motion for Rehearing and/or Transfer to Supreme Court Denied November 30, 1993.

SPINDEN, Judge.

Appellants are eight telephone companies which appeal several orders by the Public Service Commission (PSC) establishing a new policy for the way appellants can charge for telephone calls between telephone exchanges. The companies are Mid-Missouri Telephone Company, Chariton Valley Telephone Corporation, Wheeling Telephone Company, MoKan Dial, Inc., Green Hills...

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