With all due respect to the commission, this is not their money, it belongs to the telephone customers who paid the excessive rates in the first place.
Those that simply get local telephone service and only want local telephone service won't be subsidizing the discounts for people to obtain all kinds of different bundle services in the future.
The commission put in place certain safeguards for consumers in the event that competition, rather than the commission, starts to govern how local phone service is offered.
This is not a happy birthday fund for the Commission. This money was held in trust for ratepayers, and should be returned to ratepayers.
