:: News Releases 2/24/10 PSC Seeks Applications For E911 Wireless Advisory Board 2/12/10 Survey to Focus on Internet Access and Use 1/25/10 Stimulus Money Awarded in Nebraska For Broadband Mapping And Planning 1/7/10 Commission Elects Jerry Vap as Chair 9/11/09 Nebraska PSC Announces Lifeline Awareness Week - STAY CONNECTED WITH TELEPHONE ASSISTANCE 9/2/09 Commissioner Vap to Hold Town Hall Meeting on Telephone Service Quality 7/8/09 PSC Announces New Area Code and Relief Plan 6/2/09 PSC Hires Two New Grain Examiners 4/16/09 Consumer Alert – PSC Receives Telemarketing Complaints Alledging Violations of Do-Not-Call Rules 4/16/09 Wireless E911 Advisory Board Sets Goals For Next Year 3/10/09 Applicants Sought For Internet Enhancement Advisory Board 1/2/09 Over 93 Percent of State's Poplution is Phase II E-911 Capable 11/18/08 PSC to Present Information on Self-Insurance Grain Fund 11/17/08 Vacancy Exists on NUSF Advisory Board 10/29/08 Area Codes 402 and 308 Extended Again 10/21/08 Cold Weather Rule Gives Gas Customers Additional 30 Days 10/9/08 PSC Delivers Telecommunications Report to Legislature 9/16/08 PSC: Farmers Should Check License Status of Grain Dealers 8/5/08 FCC Representative to Speak at State Capitol 8/5/08 PSC Approves Claims, Payments in Alvo Grain Closure 8/1/08 FCC Extends Nebraska Relay Service Certification 8/1/08 Pre-Application Period Opens August 1 For Nebraska Internet Enhancement Fund Grants 7/10/08 Boyle To Chair National Consumer Affairs Committee 7/9/08 Federal Government Fine Tunes Do Not Call List 6/27/08 Pursley To Leave Nebraska Public Service Commission For Telephone Consulting Job With Washington Firm 6/12/08 Boyle To Testify At FCC Hearing On Wireless Early Termination Fee Contracts 5/29/08 PSC Praises FCC Auction Of Portion Of Wireless Spectrum 5/26/08 PSC Approves Graing Storage Rates For 2008 Harvest 5/14/08 PSC Appoints Pinpoint’s Gowen To NIEF Advisory Committee 5/12/08 Windstream Files For Business Rate Increase 4/30/08 402 Area Code Extension Efforts Produces Results 4/30/08 PSC Closes Out Furnas-Harlan County NIEF Project 3/31/08 Relay Service Surcharge Drops to Lowest Point in 17 Years 3/20/08 City of York to Have 2-1-1 Dialing For Human Service Referrals 3/20/08 Telehealth Network Reports to Public Service Commission 3/6/08 PSC Hires Richland Native as Grain Warehouse Examiner 1/16/08 PSC Seeks Applications For Two NUSF Advisory Board Seats 1/16/08 Nebraska Public Service Commission Supports FCC Plan to Make DO-NOT-CALL Registrations Valid Indefinitely 1/11/08 PSC Approves Adding Fillmore, Seward Counties to 2-1-1 Territory 1/9/08 Boyle Named Chair of Public Service Commission For 2008 1/9/08 Sourcegas Workshop Set by Public Service Commission 12/19/07 NTAP Available to Qualified Nebraskans 12/13/07 FCC: Nebraska Ranks Second In DSL High Speed Internet Deployment 11/8/07 Exhaust Dates Extended For Area Codes 402 And 308 10/31/07 Hybl Assumes Post of PSC Executive Director 10/31/07 PSC Asserts Jurisdiction Over Intrastate Pipeline 9/21/07 Hybl Joins Nebraska Public Service Commission as Executive Director 9/5/07 Hergert Grain License Surrendered 9/5/07 8-1-1 Sees Significant Growth 8/6/07 Schedule E Grain Rate Testimony Included Comments From Twp Western Nebraska Groups 6/28/07 PSC Alters Schedule E Grain Storage Rate 6/19/07 Hergert Grain Agrees to Surrender License, Pay Fine 5/8/07 Public Service Commission Issues Reminder on May 16-17 Aquila Rate Case Meetings 5/8/07 Public Service Commission Issues Reminder on May 16-17 Aquila Rate Case Meetings 4/30/07 PSC Sets Four Town Hall Meetings on Aquila Rate Proposal 4/30/07 PSC Releases Vouchers For Relay Service Equipment Purchases 4/25/07 PSC Appoints Logsdon to NUSF Advisory Panel 4/13/07 Public Service Commission: Not All Excise Taxes Removed by Congress 4/12/07 PSC Revokes Authority of Omaha Moving Company 4/12/07 PSC Approves Relay Contract Extension With Hamilton 4/12/07 Great Plains’ Jordison Appointed to PSC Advisory Board 3/9/07 Nebraska Commission Suggests Improvements to Federal Universal Service Fund Plan 2/21/07 PSC Seeks Applications For NUSF Advisory Board Seat 2/7/07 PSC Seeks Applications For Internet Enhancement Advisory Board 1/30/07 Three Projects to Receive Internet Enhancement Grants 1/26/07 Schram Joins Nebraska Public Service Commission to Represent Third District 12/27/06 Public Service Commission Approves Settlement For Kinder Morgan Gas Customers 12/21/06 Public Service Commission Receives Complaints on Long Distance Telephone Company 12/21/06 Nebraskans to be Able to Dial 8-1-1 to Contact Diggers Hotline 12/7/06 Luttich Receives Nebraska Building Official Award 11/27/06 Public Service Commissioner Issues Reminder on December 6-8 Kinder Morgan Rate Case Hearings 11/6/06 Public Service Commission to Hold Eight Field Hearings on Kinder Morgan Rate Increase Application 10/20/06 Nebraska's Natural Gas Cold Weather Rule in Effect November 1 10/13/06 Kinder Morgan Customers Oppose Proposed Rate Increase to Nebraska Public Service Commission 10/12/06 Public Service Commission Reminds Political Groups, Persons to Follow State Rules on Use of Automatic Telephone Dialers 9/29/06 Surcharges Lowered And Wireless Telephones Reach Milestone 9/29/06 PSC Schedules Workshop on Telephone Access Charges 9/27/06 Public Service Commission, Transportation Officials Explore Van Pooling as Commuter Service 9/19/06 PSC Sustains QWest Customer Complaints in Valentine Exchange 9/15/06 Two State Agencies Combine Forces on Dealers Selling Unlicensed Converted Stock Trailers 8/17/06 Commissioner Boyle Objects to Telecommunications Plan Before The Federal Communications Commission 8/16/06 PSC Workshop to Help Commission Identify Broadband Access to Rural Nebraskans 8/8/06 Pre-Application Deadline September 1 For Nebraska Internet Enhancement Fund Grants 7/25/06 PSC: Broadband Deployment Continues to Increase 7/12/06 PSC to Conduct Public Hearing on Complaints in QWest’s Valentine Telephone Exchange 7/12/06 July 24 PSC Meeting to Explore Commuter Service 6/30/06 PSC Closes Final Project From First Round Nebraska Internet Enhancement Fund Grants 6/29/06 PSC Commissioner Warns of IRS Phishing Scheme 6/23/06 PSC Increases Dry Edible Bean Storage Rate 6/6/06 Correction to Nebraska Internet Enhancement Fund Press Release 5/31/06 PSC Recommends Number Pooling Measures to Federal Communications Commission 5/26/06 Pre-Application Period Opens June 1 For Nebraska Ineternet Enhancement Fund Grants 5/12/06 PSC Seeks Applications For Two NUSF Advisory Board Seats 4/14/06 PSC Explores Commuter Service 4/6/06 PSC Lowers Telephone Relay Surcharge To Five Cents 3/31/06 Nebraska Internet Enhancement Fund Grant Projects Completed in Dawes And Box Butte Counties 3/27/06 PSC to Examine Eastern Nebraska Commuter Service 3/8/06 PSC Approves Pilot Pricing Option For Aquila Customers 3/3/06 Nebraska PSC Effort Extend 402 Area Code to 2010 2/24/06 Second Nebraska Internet Enhancement Grant (NIEF) Approved For Final Payment by PSC in Cheyenne County 2/9/06 PSC Seeks Cease And Desist Order Against Kansas Grain Firm in Scandia 2/7/06 PSC to Update Broadband Deployment Information 1/12/06 Commission Elects Lowell Johnson as Chairman 12/06/05 PSC Seeks Comments on Proposed 2-1-1 Service in Jefferson County 12/01/05 PSC to Study Nebraska Commuter Service 11/30/05 PSC Authorizes Enhancement to CapTel Relay Service 11/18/05 PSC Forms 8-1-1 Diggers Hotline Task Force 11/18/05 PSC Approves 2-1-1 For Cedar County 11/1/05 Public Service Commission Denies Aquila Rate Request 10/28/05 Luttich Receives RV Standards Award 10/19/05 PSC Issues Designation to First Wireless Company as an Eligible Telecommunications Carrier 10/19/05 Start Date of November 1 Start Set For Nebraska’s Natural Gas Cold Weather Rule 10/05/05 PSC: Competition For Telephone Customers Grows in Nebraska 09/29/05 PSC Approves 2-1-1 Dialing For Four Nebraska Counties For Health And Human Services Referrals 09/08/05 2-1-1 to be Implemented by December 2 in Wayne, Dixon Counties 09/06/05 Public Service Commission Approves Consolidation of Omaha, Elkhorn, And Gretna Rate Centers 08/29/05 First Nebraska Internet Enhancement Fund Grant Project Completed at Chappell 08/26/05 Farmers to Receive Money From Wilhelm Grain Case by Labor Day 08/15/05 United Way of Midlands Seeks Extension of 211 Service to Thayer County 08/15/05 PSC Opens Proceeding on Adding Four Counties to United Way’s 2-1-1 Service in Nebraska 08/15/05 PSC to Conduct Statewide Grain Meetings on August 22 For Warehousemen And Dealers 07/01/05 PSC Sets Grain Storage Rates 06/28/05 PSC Appoints Two New Members to NUSF Advisory Board 06/28/05 PSC to Hold Hearing on Lakeland Estates Water Company Rate Hike 06/01/05 PSC to Conduct Rehearing on Wilhelm Grain Claims 05/20/05 PSC Completes Grain Loadouts at Humboldt Facility 05/19/05 Charges For Paper Telephone Bills Draws Attention of PSC 05/13/05 Lakeland Estates Water Company Files For Rate Increase 04/14/05 PSC Opens Docket on 2-1-1 For Butler, Polk Counties 04/13/05 PSC Seeks Applications For Two NUSF Advisory Board Seats 03/30/05 PSC Orders Implementation of 2-1-1 For Columbus Area Counties 03/25/05 Public Service Commission’s Luttich Named to National Manufactured Home Post 02/23/05 PSC Sets Hearing For April 6 on Humboldt's Wilhelm Grain 02/08/05 PSC to Conduct Two Communications Hearings on March 9 01/11/05 Commission Re-Elects Vap as Chair 01/11/05 PSC Approves Five Nebraska Internet Enhancement Grants 12/21/04 Telephone Companies to Eliminate Last Zone Charges in Nebraska 12/02/04 PSC Encourages Telephone Competition in Southeast Nebraska With Time Warner Vote 12/02/04 Landis: Time Warner Decision Good For Telephone Service 11/12/04 PSC Approves 2-1-1 Plan For Scottsbluff County 11/09/04 South Sioux City Hearing Set For 2-1-1 Proposal 10/13/04 PSC to Recommend Limited Regulation of Wireless Carriers 10/13/04 PSC Approves Extended Area Service For Sumner, Kearney 9/28/04 PSC Promotes Breiner to Director of Motor Transportation 9/28/04 New Captioned Telephone Service Begins in October 9/10/04 PSC Funds Tele-Health Proposal 9/3/04 PSC Wireless Meeting to be September 13 in Scottsbluff 9/1/04 PSC to Vote on Funding a Statewide Tele-Health Network 8/24/04 PSC Approves Wireless 911 Funds For Lancaster County 8/19/04 PSC Wireless Meeting to Be August 25 in Grand Island 8/18/04 PSC Wireless Hearing To Be August 25 in Norfolk 8/12/04 PSC Provides For Emergency Grain Storage 8/12/04 PSC Wireless Meeting to be August 17 in McCook 8/12/04 PSC Wireless Meeting to be August 17 in North Platte 8/9/04 Sumner Telephone Subscribers to Receive Letter Explaining Extended Area Service Proposal 8/9/04 Objections to Hamilton Telecom Rate Increase Fail to Reach Five Percent Threshold 8/9/04 Project Locate Cards Help Remind Wireless 9-1-1 Users That Emergency Calls May be Handled Differently 8/6/04 PSC Adds Scottsbluff to List of Sites For Wireless Telephone Meetings 8/5/04 PSC Wireless Meeting to be August 19 in Fremont 8/5/04 PSC Wireless Meeting to be August 12 in Lincoln 8/5/04 PSC Wireless Meeting to be August 10 in Omaha 7/14/04 PSC to Conduct Public Hearings in August on Regulation of Wireless Telephone Companies 7/12/04 Public Service Commission’s Luttich Named to Two National Manufactured Housing Posts 7/12/04 Hamilton to Offer New Relay Service Feature 6/28/04 PSC Sets Hearing on 2-1-1 Human Services Information Plan For Seven South Central Nebraska Counties 6/03/04 PSC To Keep NUSF Rate At 6.95 Percent 6/02/04 PSC Retains Grain Storage Fees at Current Rates 5/26/04 Project Exhaust Date For 402 Area Code Extended 5/25/04 Revised PSC Grain Warehouse Rules Go Into Effect 5/25/04 Community Internet Grant Application Process Begins June 1 5/18/04 New Modular Housing Rules Become Effective May 19 5/4/2004 PSC Prepares First NIEF Grant Application Program 4/16/2004 Nebraskans Use Web Site to Contact NPSC 4/16/2004 Natural Gas Cold Weather Rule Expired March 31 4/16/2004 PSC Monitors Northwestern's Plan To Emerge From Bankruptcy 3/30/2004 Public Service Commission Approves 211 for Lancaster County 3/9/2004 PSC to Conduct Public Hearing in Omaha on Proposed Increase in Safeway Cab Rates 3/9/2004 PSC Adds Two Attorneys to Staff 3/8/2004 Nebraska PSC Supports Appeal of DC Circuit Decision 3/5/2004 PSC Issues Consumer Alert on Recreational Vehicles Manufactured by Indiana Company 2/11/2004 PSC Approves 2-1-1 Dialing for Human Services Information in Dodge, Saunders, and Washington Counties 2/3/2004 QWest, Sprint Expire Local Number Portability Surcharges 12/15/2003 PSC: Natural Gas Consumers Need to Use Conservation Plan 12/11/2003 PSC Appoints Demman to Natural Gas Directorship 12/11/2003 PSC’s Boyle Appointed to FCC Advisory Committee 12/8/2003 Creston/Columbus Extended Area Service Begins December 16 11/4/2003 PSC Goes Online With Utility Complaint Form 10/29/2003 PSC Alert: Reports Surface on Possible Fraudulent Grain Purchases 10/28/2003 PSC Holds Hearing on Cold Weather Rule For Natural Gas 10/8/2003 Application for Extended Area Telephone Service Between Rushville and Hay Springs Fails to Meet Traffic Minumums 9/25/2003 Consumers Should Prepare Now to Lessen Impact of Higher Natural Gas Prices During Winter 9/23/2003 PSC Issues Annual Telecommunications Report to Legislature 9/8/2003 PSC to Monitor Northwestern Energy 9/3/2003 PSC Authorizes Extended Area Service Between Creston and Columbus 9/3/2003 PSC Seeks Applications for E911 Wireless Advisory Board Seats 8/29/2003 Oklahoma Utility Attorney to Lead PSC's New Natural Gas Department 8/26/2003 PSC Dismisses Hildreth-Wilcox Extended Area Service Proposals 8/21/2003 PSC Seeks Applications For NUSF Advisory Board Seat 7/29/2003 Extended Area Service Ballots Mailed to Creston 6/24/2003 PSC to Hold Public Workshop on New Grain Warehouse Regulation Law 6/24/2003 Creston Telephone Customers to Vote on EAS 6/17/2003 Call Splashing May Show up on Consumer Bills 5/29/2003 PSC to Host 15-State Regulators Conference in Omaha 5/12/2003 PSC Small Business Alert: Complaints Allege Billings for Unaccepted Collect Calls 5/9/2003 PSC Reinstates All Reporting Requirements on Service Quality 5/9/2003 PSC Changes Name of Telephone Assistance Program 4/29/2003 Creston Meeting to Discuss Extended Area Service With Columbus 4/21/2003 PSC Fines Long Distance Carrier $9,300 For Failure to File Universal Service Fund Audit Report 4/17/2003 PSC Issues Report on Telephony Infrastructure in Nebraska Best viewed with Netscape or Internet Exporer 4.0 and above at screen resolution 800x600 and above.