Report No. DC-2578     COMMON CARRIER ACTION       March 10, 1994

        INVESTIGATION INTO UNITED TELECOMMUNICATIONS TERMINATED;
             COMPANY ORDERED TO REVISE RATES AND ISSUE REFUNDS
                            (CC DOCKET 92-236)

     The Commission has found that certain rates charged by United
Telecommunications, Inc., for Line Information Database (LIDB)
service were unlawful and ordered United to revise the rates and
issue refunds.

     In 1991 the Commission adopted the Local Exchange Carrier Line
Information Database order (LIDB Investigation Order) which 
initiated an investigation of the LIDB tariffs of several carriers,
including United.  A significant part of United's LIDB service,
Common Channel Signalling (CCS) Interconnection Service, was
available only in Tennessee. 

     On August 14, 1992, while the LIDB investigation was still
pending, United filed a transmittal to extend CCS Interconnection
Service from Tennessee to other jurisdictions.  The Common Carrier
Bureau, which was conducting the investigation, suspended United's
tariff for one day and initiated this investigation.  

     On November 16, 1992, United filed its direct case and
subsequently agreed to lower many of the rates subject to this
investigation.  The Commission said that based on its examination
of United's direct case and its findings in the recently completed
LIDB investigation, many of United's CCS Interconnection service
rates as originally filed were unjust and unreasonable, but the
rates as adjusted are not unreasonable. 
     
     Therefore, the Commission ordered United to refund the
difference between the rates as originally filed and as adjusted --
the unjust and unreasonable portion of its CCS Interconnection
Service rates -- with interest, to its out-of-band signalling
customers.

     Action by the Commission March 7, 1994, by Order Terminating
Investigation (FCC 94-52).  Chairman Hundt, Commissioners Quello
and Barrett.

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