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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON Rapitahannock \**w* Stnff VI rit«*r On Wednesday, December 9, the State Corporation Commission will hold its public hearing in Richmond on a rate increase application from Central Telephone Company (CenTel). Commonwealth’s attorney Douglas Baumgardner will appear at the hearing on behalf of the Rappahannock Board of Supervisors to oppose the rate hike unless it is tied to a provision for better service. In a letter to the supervisors written after CenTel’s announcement that it would seek a rate increase, Baumgardner cited service - problems including excessive rates for toll calls, an excessive number of toll calls, obsolete equipment, delays in providing both private and business telephone service, frequent poor connections and frequent cut-offs in telephone connections, particularly during bad weather.
Baumgardner also maintained that frequent failure of CenTel's long distance dialing capability
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