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South Dakota Public Utilities Commission
WEEKLY FILINGS
For the Period of July 10, 2003 through July 16, 2003
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CONSUMER COMPLAINTS
Complainant's representative states that a four-year prepaid long distance service plan was purchased on May 5, 2000, and that a 48-month lease agreement was signed at that time. Service was terminated without notice on June 3, 2003. The Complainant's representative contends that the respondent has failed to provide the contractual services and therefore seeks to have the responsibility to the Lease Company shifted to the Respondent.
Staff Analyst: Jim Mehlhaff
Staff Attorney: Kelly Frazier
Date Docketed: 07/10/03
Intervention deadline: N/A
Complainant represents that he purchased a ten-year prepaid long distance service plan on October 5, 1998. On June 5, 2003, service was terminated without notice. Complainant seeks to be reimbursed for the prepaid service not provided.
Staff Analyst: Jim Mehlhaff
Staff Attorney: Kelly Frazier
Date Docketed: 07/10/03
Intervention deadline: N/A
Complainant represents that she purchased a six-year prepaid long distance service plan on November 16, 2000. On June 5, 2003, service was terminated without notice. Complainant seeks to be reimbursed for the prepaid service not provided.
Staff Analyst: Jim Mehlhaff
Staff Attorney: Kelly Frazier
Date Docketed: 07/10/03
Intervention deadline: N/A
Complainants represent that they purchased a ten-year prepaid cellular service plan on December 6, 1996. Service quality has always been poor. The respondent has now cut service, therefore the complainants seek to be reimbursed for three years of prepaid service that has not been provided.
Staff Analyst: Jim Mehlhaff
Staff Attorney: Kelly Frazier
Date Docketed: 07/10/03
Intervention deadline: N/A
Complainant represents that she purchased a seven-year prepaid long distance service plan. In early June service was terminated without notice. Complainant seeks to be reimbursed for the prepaid service not provided.
Staff Analyst: Jim Mehlhaff
Staff Attorney: Kelly Frazier
Date Docketed: 07/10/03
Intervention deadline: N/A
Complainant's representative states that a four-year prepaid long distance service plan was purchased. Service was terminated without notice after one month of service. Complainant seeks to be reimbursed for the prepaid service not provided.
Staff Analyst: Jim Mehlhaff
Staff Attorney: Kelly Frazier
Date Docketed: 07/10/03
Intervention deadline: N/A
Complainant's representative states that a four-year prepaid long distance service plan was purchased on February 27, 2003. Service was terminated without notice after approximately eight weeks of service. Complainant seeks to be reimbursed for the prepaid service not provided.
Staff Analyst: Jim Mehlhaff
Staff Attorney: Kelly Frazier
Date Docketed: 07/10/03
Intervention deadline: N/A
Complainant states that he purchased a seven-year long distance service plan and that service was terminated prior to the termination date of the contract. Complainant seeks to be reimbursed for prepaid service not provided plus the interest that was paid for financing the service plan.
Staff Analyst: Jim Mehlhaff
Staff Attorney: Kelly Frazier
Date Docketed: 07/10/03
Intervention deadline: N/A
Complainants represent that they purchased a six-year prepaid long distance service plan. On June 5, 2003, the complainants discovered that service had been terminated without notice, three years before the end of the contract. Complainants seek to be reimbursed for the prepaid service not provided or to have service re-established for the balance of the contract.
Staff Analyst: Jim Mehlhaff
Staff Attorney: Kelly Frazier
Date Docketed: 07/10/03
Intervention deadline: N/A
Complainants represent that they purchased a prepaid long distance service plan on December 20, 1999. The contract should have provided service through January 2007. On June 5, 2003, the service was terminated without notice on June 5, 2003. If the Respondent is unable to re-establish service, Complainants seek to be reimbursed for the prepaid service not provided.
Staff Analyst: Jim Mehlhaff
Staff Attorney: Kelly Frazier
Date Docketed: 07/10/03
Intervention deadline: N/A
Complainant's representative states that on December 10, 2002, a four-year prepaid long distance service plan was purchased from the respondent. Service was established on February 11, 2003. However, two of the lines were not transferred and were billed by the previous carrier at a casual rate. On June 3, 2003, service was terminated without notice. Complainant seeks to be reimbursed for the prepaid service not provided. Complainant also seeks to have the PUC direct the Respondent to pay the previous carrier for the charges on the lines that they failed to transfer and to direct the previous carrier to re-rate the charges to the existing plan rate and to halt all collection activities until this entire matter is resolved.
Staff Analyst: Jim Mehlhaff
Staff Attorney: Kelly Frazier
Date Docketed: 07/11/03
Intervention deadline: N/A
Complainant's representative states that a six-year prepaid long distance service plan was purchased from the respondent. Service was terminated without notice after approximately 10 months of service. Complainant seeks to be reimbursed for the full purchase price of the contract.
Staff Analyst: Jim Mehlhaff
Staff Attorney: Kelly Frazier
Date Docketed: 07/16/03
Intervention deadline: N/A
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
On July 10, 2003, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Telephone Authority, Eagle Butte, South Dakota, filed a switched access cost study developing a revenue requirement and minutes of use that are included in the revenue requirement and minutes of use used to determine the switched access rates for the Local Exchange Carriers Association.
Staff Analyst: Harlan Best
Staff Attorney: Karen Cremer
Date Docketed: 07/10/03
Intervention Deadline: 08/01/03
On July 16, 2003, the Commission received a filing for Approval of an Amendment to an Interconnection Agreement between Qwest Corporation and WaveSent, L.L.C. According to the parties, the Agreement is being amended to include the addition of a Single Point of Presence as set forth in Attachment 1 and Exhibit A, which are attached to the Amendment. The original Agreement was approved on March 7, 2003, in Docket TC03-044. 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 August 3, 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: 07/16/03
Initial Comments Due: 08/05/03
Northern Valley Communications (NVC) has filed revised pages to NVC's Intrastate Switched Access Tariff No. 1 for Commission approval. Previously, NVC was granted exemption from developing intrastate switched access rates based on company specific costs. NVC's revised tariff rates are based on a statewide average in accordance with ARSD 20:10:27:12.
Staff Analyst: Michele Farris
Staff Attorney: Karen Cremer
Date Docketed: 07/16/03
Intervention Deadline: 08/01/03
Yak Communications (America) Inc. has filed an application for a Certificate of Authority to provide resold interexchange telecommunications services in South Dakota. The applicant intends to provide resold interexchange services, including 1+ long distance, 10-10 casual calling services and Toll-Free services throughout South Dakota.
Staff Analyst: Bonnie Bjork
Staff Attorney: Kelly Frazier
Date Docketed: 07/16/03
Intervention Deadline: 08/01/03
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