-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Charles Brown Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 5:38 AM To: OIA List Subject: [OIA] Telco Price increases in California; 14-18%
Thought I would pass this along to the list. I have three telco lines at my home office (No. Calif.) and just received invoices reflecting price increases of 14%, 17% and 18%, respectively. These are measured rate business and residential services. To put this into context, consider that the US is in economic depression with "real unemployment" rates near the peak "recorded rate" in the 1930's (25%); higher in some areas, and whole states (MI, central valley of Calif, etc.). Our economy looks like Japan's - zombie banks who are a ball-and-chain on the economy. You may have noticed that the MSM has adopted the incrementalist phrase, "severe recession" to describe this phenomenon. I called the Calif. CPUC and asked them to explain how it is that they were able to approve such a large percentage rate increase, or any rate increase, in the midst of a "severe recession." I was blown-off of course. Are you seeing this in other states or is it just the corrupt Calif. PUC? Charlie _______________________________________________ Open Infrastructure Alliance http://lists.bway.net/listinfo/oia _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
