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South Dakota Public Utilities Commission
WEEKLY FILINGS
For the Period of October 11, 2001 through October 17, 2001
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CONSUMER COMPLAINTS
Complainant states that she received unauthorized billing on three of her telephone lines by Global Crossing. She states that Global Crossing continued to harass her, her family and her employee about Complainant's account with Global Crossing. Complainant states that although she feels that she is entitled to $3,000.00 for the unauthorized billing, she would be willing to settle for $1,500.00 from Global Crossing. If Complainant is required to attend a hearing on the complaint, she requests that the Commission award her travel expenses along with what she is entitled to under South Dakota law.
Staff Analyst: Mary Healy
Staff Attorney: Karen Cremer
Date Docketed: 10/11/01
Intervention Deadline: N/A
The Complainant's representative states that for the past three years his client has had numerous billing and service problems with Qwest. He states that payments that have been paid to Qwest have not been fully credited to the Milleniallink account, the accounts have been billed for services that were not authorized and the accounts were wrongfully assessed late fees and interest charges. Complainant's representative also states that because of Qwest's poor service and outages, Milleniallink has lost thousands of dollars in lost customers, business and staff time. He also states that Milleniallink has received little or no credit on their bill for the damages associated with the outages. The representative states that Qwest has also engaged in unfair trade practices when both companies were competitive in the DSL business. He states that Qwest representatives routinely advised Milleniallink customers that DSL was not available through Milleniallink and was available through Qwest. Complainant's representative requests that the Commission require Qwest to provide Milleniallink with a full and complete account of all Milleniallink accounts for the past 36 months; prohibit Qwest from further collection efforts until this matter is resolved; award monetary damages to Milleniallink due to service outages caused by Qwest; award monetary damages to Milleniallink due to unfair trade practices related to DSL marketing; award Milleniallink its costs and disbursements related to these matter including reasonable attorney fees; and any other relief the Commission deems just and equitable.
Staff Analyst: Mary Healy
Staff Attorney: Karen Cremer
Date Docketed: 10/12/01
Intervention Deadline: N/A
ELECTRIC
Basin Electric Power Cooperative has submitted an application for a permit to construct transmission facilities as defined at SDCL 49-41B. These facilities consist of an asynchronous tie that would connect the eastern and western transmission grids near Rapid City, South Dakota. The rating of the tie would be in the range of 100 to 300 million volt-amperes, depending on the capabilities of the associated transmission system. The project is known as the Rapid City Tie Project and includes: approximately 23 miles of 230 kilovolt transmission line; a line terminal at the western edge of the project referred to as the South Rapid City Substation; an asynchronous tie converter station 4 miles southeast of the South Rapid City Substation; and a line terminal based at the existing New Underwood Substation, at the eastern edge of the project. The project is located completely in Pennington County, South Dakota.
Staff Analyst: Michele Farris
Staff Attorney: Karen Cremer
Date Docketed: 10/11/01
Intervention Deadline: 12/10/01
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
TDI Communications, Inc. (TDI) is seeking a Certificate of Authority to provide interexchange telecommunications services throughout South Dakota. TDI proposes to acquire and resell various voice and data communications services offered by IXCs, and to package and provide these services for the specialized functions and needs of its customers.
Staff Analyst: Heather Forney
Staff Attorney: Kelly Frazier
Date Docketed: 10/11/01
Intervention Deadline: 11/02/01
James Valley Cooperative Telephone Company and Qwest have jointly filed for approval of a proposed territory boundary change. As requested by the customer, Qwest has agreed to release the customer to James Valley. The customer resides in the Redfield exchange of Qwest's territory. He would like to be served by James Valley Cooperative Telephone Company from its Mellette Exchange.
Staff Analyst: Michele Farris
Staff Attorney: Karen Cremer
Date Docketed: 10/16/01
Intervention Deadline: 11/02/01
On October 17, 2001, a filing for approval of Amendments to an Interconnection Agreement between Qwest Corporation (Qwest) and Black Hills FiberCom, Inc. (FiberCom) was received by the Commission. According to the parties the Agreement is a negotiated agreement between Qwest and FiberCom which was approved by the Commission effective January 6, 1999, in Docket TC98-205. The EEL Amendment is made in order to add the terms and conditions and rates for Enhanced Extended Loop to the Agreement, as set forth in Attachment 1 and Exhibits A, B and C, attached to the Amendment. The ISP Amendment is made in order to add to the Agreement the terms and conditions contained in Attachments 1 and 2, 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 November 6, 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 Frazier
Date Docketed: 10/17/01
Initial Comments Due: 11/06/01
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