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left customers in a potentially life and property threatening situation since fire and rescue dispatch for the area in Rappahannock served by the utility is by long distance telephone through Culpeper.
Baumgardner has volunteered to present written comments from local citizens at the SCC hearing in Richmond. Responses should be mailed immediately to the commonwealth’s attorney at P.O. Box 235, Washington, Va. 22747 or delivered to his office on Gay Street.
If approved by the SCC, CenTel’s rate application will increase the company’s annual revenues by $8.5 million or approximately 10.7 percent. Charges for local access rates, or - what customers pay for their telephone lines, will go up an average of 23 percent.
According to CenTel, if the rate hike is approved, it will work out to about a 4.6 percent increase per year since the utility’s last rate increase was approved in December, 1976.
Charges Too Low
The company maintains that it is currently charging
91.0%