TALLAHASSEE, Florida (AP) -- Sprint wants to charge its two million Florida customers an extra $.93 a month each to pay for damage from last year's unprecedented four hurricanes.

Sprint has filed a petition with the Public Service Commission, asking to put the charge on bills over the next two years to collect more than $30 million.

The company says hundreds of thousands of its customers lost service during the storms and that it sustained millions of dollars of damage to its facilities and that its current rate structure doesn't have hurricane cost recovery built in.

The Office of Public Counsel, the Legislature's consumer advocate, will have a chance to argue before the PSC on the matter. It's not clear yet when the commissioners will hear the case and make a decision, although it won't be before July 1st.

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