ALLTEL GA. COMMUNICATIONS v. GEORGIA PSC

No. S97G1862.

505 S.E.2d 218 (1998)

ALLTEL GEORGIA COMMUNICATIONS et al. v. GEORGIA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Reconsideration Denied November 5, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Albert G. Norman, Jr., Edgar Holland Sims, Jr., Bruce Perrin Brown, Larry Craig Dowdy, Long, Aldridge, & Norman, Atlanta, for ALLTEL Georgia Communications Corporation et al.

Alan Gantzhorn, Senior Asst. Atty. Gen., Department of Law, Fred Jester McCallum, Jr., Bellsouth Telecommunications, Inc., Christiane Lynda Sommer, Georgia Department of Law, Atlanta, for Georgia Public Service Commission.

Thomas J. Moorman, Kraskin & Lesse, LLP, Washington, DC, for Amicus Appellant.

William King Whitner, Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, Joseph R. Bankoff, King & Spalding, James Shaffer Hurt, Consumer Utility Counsel Division, John Helm MacLean, Governor's Office of Consumer Affairs, Atlanta, for Amicus Appellee.


FLETCHER, Presiding Justice.

We granted certiorari in this case to consider the scope of the Public Service Commission's authority to regulate a company that has given notice of its election of "alternative regulation" under the Georgia Telecommunications and Competition Development Act, OCGA § 46-5-160. The court of appeals held that the PSC could review rates until the effective date of alternative regulation, 30...

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