News from the Oklahoma Corporation Commission

Jim Palmer, Director of Information

September 24, 1999

COMMISSIONERS TAKE PUBLIC DISCUSSIONS ON TELECOMMUNICATIONS TO TULSA

TO MEET WITH INDUSTRY, MAYORS AND CONSUMERS AS THEY EXAMINE THE STATE OF TELECOM IN OKLAHOMA, EXPANDED CALLING SCOPES AND ALTERNATIVE REGULATION.

The meeting gets underway at 9:30 a.m., Monday, Sept. 27, at the Court of Appeals on the 6^th floor of the Kerr Building at 440 S. Houston in Tulsa.

Comments and presentations will focus on how to best provide for improved telecom services through investments in more broadband, high speed data access to voice, video and the internet. The commission is studying the telecom infrastructure statewide.