If you live outside of one of Oregon’s many cities or towns, in unincorporated territory, you may want to know about the experience of an Oregon utility consumer who recently contacted CUB. A man called CUB a few weeks ago and... Read More »

Oregon’s largest phone company, Qwest, has proposed a radical plan to immediately raise rates and deregulate phone services over the next three years. Once rates are fully deregulated the phone company would be able to add additional rate hikes. Of course, the... Read More »

We love it, here at CUB, when we are able to respond directly to a query and open up a topic for public discussion. Particularly if we can soothe some fears in the process. Such was the case this past... Read More »

If you are one of the millions of Americans who uses a cell phone, chances are good that you received an unwelcome surprise the first time you paid that wireless bill. Wireless telecommunications companies have for quite some time gotten... Read More »

Qwest is at it again. Unsuccessful in attempts to move through a plan to deregulate rates (and therefore raise them) for basic phone service on the Governor’s Telecommunications Task Force of 2006, and in the Oregon Legislative Session of 2007 (note Read More »

We have spoken most recently and most often in CUB Online about the clean energy legislation CUB is advocating in Salem, but we also are working hard at the Capitol on telecommunications issues. Today we want to share with you... Read More »