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South Dakota Public Utilities Commission
WEEKLY FILINGS
For the Period of April 26, 2001 through May 02, 2001
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CONSUMER COMPLAINTS
The Complainants allege that Black Hills Power and Light have trespassed on their property without a proper easement to supply electricity to other properties since at least October 2000. The Complainants further state that they attempted to resolve the situation with Black Hills Power and Light with no success. The Complainants request that Black Hills Power and Light purchase the easement from them at a price of $3,500.00 or stop trespassing on their property.
Staff Analyst: Mary Healy
Staff Attorney: Karen Cremer
Date Docketed: 04/26/01
Intervention Deadline: N/A
The complainant alleges that he never authorized the services of Direct One Communications. The complainant disputes the monthly charges that appear on his credit card for telecommunication services that he does not use. The complainant requests that the account be cancelled, that he receives compensation of $1000.00 and that other fines are imposed as provided for in state law.
Staff Analyst: Charlene Lund
Staff Attorney: Kelly Frazier
Date Docketed: 04/30/01
Intervention Deadline: N/A
The Complainant alleges that his long distance service was "slammed" by WebNet. Complainant requests that WebNet pay him the maximum amount allowed under South Dakota law and that he be reimbursed for any expenses he may have incurred while trying to settle this complaint.
Staff Analyst: Mary Healy
Staff Attorney: Karen Cremer
Date Docketed 04/30/01
Intervention Deadline: N/A
The Complainant alleges that Sprint billed him for unauthorized international calls. The Complainant requests that the Public Utilities Commission contact, inform and work with any agency necessary to reverse the charges incurred by the international calls. The Complainant further states that a policy needs to be initiated and enforced to prevent consumers from this undue hardship, inconvenience and financial setback.
Staff Analyst: Mary Healy
Staff Attorney: Karen Cremer
Date Docketed: 04/30/01
Intervention Deadline: N/A
The Complainants allege that their long distance service was "slammed." Complainants state that their long distance service was switched at least three times in the past year without their authorization. Complainants further state that they put a freeze on their phone line to prevent unauthorized changes heir service was switched again without authorization which resulted in unauthorized billings. Complainants request the maximum amount allowed under South Dakota law and that they be awarded an additional $200.00 for the time they have spent trying to work with all of the companies to fix a problem that the Complainants did not create.
Staff Analyst: Mary Healy
Staff Attorney: Karen Cremer
Date Docketed: 05/01/01
Intervention Deadline: N/A
The Complainant alleges that her long distance service was switched without her authorization. Complainant states that she did agree to pay AT&T at a lower rate for the unauthorized calls, but has not received the agreed upon re-rate.
Staff Analyst: Mary Healy
Staff Attorney: Karen Cremer
Date Docketed: 05/02/01
Intervention Deadline: N/A
ELECTRIC
On April 30, 2001, Otter Tail Power Company filed for a tariff revision. This tariff revision provides an updated summary list of contracts with deviations for the City of Ward. This contract goes into effect May 1, 2001 and requires commission approval.
Staff Analyst: Keith Senger
Staff Attorney: Karen Cremer
Date Docketed: 04/30/01
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
On May 2, 2001, a docket was opened by the Commission to consider the approval of a SPOP Amendment to an Interconnection Agreement between Qwest Corporation and Sprint Communications Company L.P. The Agreement is a negotiated agreement between the parties and was originally approved by the Commission effective November 21, 1997, in Docket TC97-149. According to the parties the Amendment is made to add terms and conditions for Single Point of Presence (SPOP) in the LATA as set forth in Attachment 1 and Exhibit A attached to the Amendment. Any party wishing to comment on the agreement may do so by filing written comments with the Commission and the parties to the agreement no later than May 22, 2001. Parties to the agreement may file written responses to the comments no later than twenty days after the service of the initial comments.
Staff Attorney: Kelly D. Frazier
Date Docketed: 05/02/01
Initial Comments Due: 05/22/01
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