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supervisor chairman J. (U Latham dated August 14, Baumgardner announces his intention to appear before the State Corporation Commission on behalf of the people of Rappahannock County to oppose the rate increase application from Central Telephone Company (Centel).
This week Centel filed a rate application that will increase the company's annual revenues by $8.5 million, or about 10.7 per cent. Charges for local access rates, or what customers pay for their telephone lines, will go up an average of 23 percent under the proposal.
According to Centel’s vice president Daryl Ferguson, that works out to about a 4.6 percent increase per year since the utility’s last rate increase was approved in December, 1976.
In his letter to Latham, Baumgardner notes the many problems county citizens have with Centel’s service. “These problems include, but
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