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Questions about press releases should be addressed to Executive Director Charles Acquard: charlie@nasuca.org

2013
Press Release-NASUCA Urges Congress to Consider Cost of Energy to Consumers; Continue Funding Programs to Assist Limited and Fixed Income Consumers

Paula Carmody-Testimony
February 14, 2013
2012
Press Release- Nations Utility Consumer Advocates Elect Leaders
November 15, 2012
Press Release- Advocates Urge Elimination of “Convenience” Fees for Card Payment of Utility Bills
November 13, 2012
Press Release- Colorado Consumer Advocate Appointed to Joint Board
April 6, 2012
Nation's Consumer Advocates Applaud "Green Button" Initiative
March 22, 2012
NASUCA Calls on FERC to Modify Transmission Policies
Letter to FERC

March 5, 2012
2011
PRESS RELEASE: NASUCA Files Cramming Comments
NASUCA Cramming Comments
Appendix A
Filing Receipt
December 5, 2011
Press Statement Regarding the AT&T -T-Moblie Merger
March 22, 2011 22, 2011
2010
Press Release- NASUCA Lifeline Awareness
September 10, 2010
Press Release-NASUCA opposes "full credit reporting" of residential consumers' electric and natural gas payment histories
June 18, 2010
Press Release- NASUCA sets out consumer friendly transmission planning and development principles
June 18, 2010
Consumer Alert: Beware of unauthorized sale of TracFone's SafeLink cell phones and monthly minutes
June 16, 2010
Press Release-Nation's utility consumer advocates: FCC should investigate wireless Lifeline Benefits
June 16, 2010
2009
Press Release-Nation's utility consumer advocates name new leadership
November 19, 2009
Press Release- Utility Consumer Advocates call for FCC to deny Verizon Frontier Merger
September 21, 2009
Press Release-Consumers need to know about Lifeline telephone assistance programs
September 14, 2009
Joint Press Release: Study Revels New Cap and Trade Winners and Losers
July 15, 2009
NASUCA Press Release:NASUCA RTO Governance
June 19, 2009
Press Release: Nation's consumer utility advocates call for major broadband infrastructure investment -January 16, 2009

NASUCA Letter to OBAMA on Broadband
-January 16, 2009
NASUCA Letter to Senate on Broadband -January 16, 2009
NASUCA Letter to House on Broadband -January 16, 2009
2008
Press Release: New report adds to growing list of why drastic changes are not needed to federal Universal Service Fund
November 3, 2008
Press Release- Nation's State Utility Consumer Advocates Call for Making Do-Not-Call Registry Permanent
January 14, 2008
2007
Consumers Protected by FCC Decision on Verizon Forbearance
December 5, 2007
Ohio Consumers’ Counsel attorney David Bergmann receives national award for advocacy on behalf of telecommunications consumers
November 19, 2007
Consumers Paying Billions Due to Misallocated Telecom Costs
August 22, 2006
2006
Consumers Paying Billions Due to Misallocated Telecom Costs
August 22, 2006
Consumer Advocates Detail Steps Needed to Protect Personal Information
April 28, 2006
Consumer Advocates Announce Launch of Telephone Assistance Website
February 7, 2006
2005

NASUCA's Letter Regarding Decline in Telephone Subscribership

Latest FCC Subscribership Report, including historical data

Consumer advocates call for study of decline in the number of households with telephone service
August 11, 2005

Nation's Consumer Advocates Call for Stronger Telephone Billing Rules, More Consumer Protections
June 27, 2005
Consumer Advocates ask Federal Court to Overturn FCC's Decision on Telephone Billing Rules
March 29, 2005
Consumer Groups Say FCC Decision is a Defeat in the Effort to Protect Consumers From Misleading Long Distance and Cell Phone Charges
March 10, 2005
The Truth Behind Rising Electric Rates and Deregulation
Open Letter to DC Consumers as Appeared in the Washington Post D.C. Extra
February 3, 2005
Notice of Appeal for the Vonage Order
January 11, 2005
NASUCA Files Federal Appeal to Protect Internet Telephone Customers
January 11, 2005
2004
FCC Decision Could Permanently Damage Local Telephone Choice
December 15, 2004
NASUCA Proposes Wireless Consumer Protections
November 24, 2004
NASUCA Responds to the FCC Decision on Internet-based Telephone Service
November 9, 2004
Consumer Advocates Call for Fair Access Rule
October 5, 2004

Consumer Advocates Call for Limits on Telecommunications Surcharge; Criticize Senate Appropriations Committee Rejection of Needed Reform
September 23, 2004

Nation's Consumer Advocates Fight Telephone Industry's Misleading Surcharges
August 13, 2004

The Indiana Office of Utility Consumer Counselor Truth in Billing-Press Release
May 11, 2004
NASUCA Responds to Texas Sunset Commission
May 5, 2004
Sunset Commission Staff Report
Consumer Advocates Tell FCC That VOIP Telephone Customers Deserve Protections
March 30, 2004
Truth in Billing-Press Release
March 30, 2004
NASUCA Letter to Attorney General John Ashcroft-Certiorari and stay of USTA v. FCC
March 17, 2004
Consumer Advocates React to Federal Court's Telecom Decision
March 2, 2004
2003
Pennsylvania Consumer Advocate Tells Congress That Rate Incentives Will Not Solve Blackout Problems
September 4, 2003
FCC rules mean critical decisions now rest with state regulators
August 22, 2003
Nation's consumer advocates honor Florida Public Counsel Jack Shreve
June 13, 2003
FERC "equity incentive" plan would cost consumers billions of dollars in higher electric rates
March 13, 2003
Letter to the editor in response to USA Today's "Bell Monopolies Push to Disconnect Competition" editorial
February 15, 2003
Letter to the editor to major daily newspapers in support of the local telephone wholesale system (UNE-P)
February 13, 2003
Letter to the editor in response to the Wall Street Journal's "A Telecom Breakthrough" editorial
February 13, 2003
Report By Nation's State Utility Consumer Advocates Shows Local Telephone Wholesale System Vital to Competition
January 27, 2003
Letter to the editor to the Wall Street Journal in support of the local telephone wholesale system (UNE-P)
January 13, 2003

2002

Fight to Preserve Telephone Competition
Nation’s State Utility Consumer Advocates Praise FTC’s New Do-Not-Call List
December 18, 2002
NASUCA Recommends Changes To Telemarketing Rules
December 9, 2002
OH Consumers' Counsel, Robert S. Tongren, Elected President of NASUCA
November 14, 2002


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