ADMINISTRATIVE LAW BOARD OF PUBLIC UTILITIES TELECOMMUNICATIONS
01-2-6717 In the Matter of Local Exchange Carrier Intrastate Exchange Access Rates, App. Div. (per curiam) (56 pp.) Appellants, various competitive local exchange carriers, challenge the BPUs order gradually reducing the rates they can charge incumbent local exchange carriers and interexchange carriers for intrastate switched access service. The panel affirms, finding that the challenged order contained findings and conclusion sufficient for judicial review and to show that the parties were heard and their arguments considered by the agency, the BPU referenced the record in order to provide examples for its reasoning, it was not required to make carrier-specific factual findings regarding the impact of the reduced rates, it was not unreasonable for it to reject the submitted cost studies, and the BPUs decisions do not lack reasonable support in the record and are not arbitrary, capricious, unreasonable or beyond its delegated authority. [Decided June 21, 2012.]
