How to protest local ISDN tariffs

[James Love <love@Essential.ORG>]

On Thu, 4 Apr 1996, Giorgio Gomelsky wrote:
> Am personally very willing to help similar action in New York if there
> are other ISDNers in NY to connect to or collaborate with, please instruct.

    We have hired Todd Paglia, a lawyer, to provide free legal assistance
to consumers who want to challenge local ISDN tariffs.  His email is
tpaglia@tap.org, his phone is 202/387-8030.  Basically, if a tariff is
pending, its a case of filing comments for the record (as many as
possible), and talking with the PUC staff and the local consumer advocate. 
Things that have been quite effective are giving out copies of the 
various intel filings, Scott Rafferty's Delaware testimony, the NRRI 
ISDN cost study, some of our (CPT) pleadings, and the CPT survey of tariffs.

The comments also need to make it concrete why ISDN is important to 
people, and how the high prices hurt consumers and infomation services 
providers.  

If there is no tariff pending, then Todd needs to find out the proceedure 
for petitioning the agency for a review of the tariff.   this is quite 
different from state to state.  but we would love to get something going 
in NYC.

  It is also important to get industry groups involved.  Intel and Compaq 
have made a huge impact in several US West states..., and in New Mexico 
and Arizona there are broad information industry coalitions involved..  
This is pretty powerful stuff for the PUCs..

   Send Todd a note if you want to proceed.  These things work best when 
the local consumers are truly active and involved, setting up local web 
pages on the tariff battle, making calls to Commission staff and local 
newspapers, etc... 

.....  jamie

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James Love / love@tap.org / P.O. Box 19367, Washington, DC 20036
Voice: 202/387-8030; Fax 202/234-5176
Center for Study of Responsive Law
   Consumer Project on Technology; http://www.essential.org/cpt
   Taxpayer Assets Project; http://www.tap.org
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