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Denver Business Journal
Qwest seeks more money from feds for rural service
Submitted by Benton Foundation on May 20, 2008 - 8:15amQwest Communications International is asking a federal agency to obey a 2005 court order for reforms that Qwest hopes will give it more access to a pot of money subsidizing rural phone and broadband service.
Colorado PUC granted expanded power
Submitted by Benton Foundation on May 8, 2008 - 7:58amThe Colorado Public Utilities Commission will gain the power to limit local, basic phone rates in the state under a bill that passed the Colorado legislature this week. The legislation reauthorizing all the powers of the PUC removes a state law capping base phone rates and instead puts rate limits in the regulatory body's duties.
