This is just a publicity exposure on what many companies have been doing for Decades. I work in Credit qualification, financial eligibility checks, and customer acquisition for a living (for a major wireless carrier) and we treat customers the same way. The vendor I support provides the best credit qualification servcies on earth. (www.Lightbridge.com)Same thing for cars, boats, mortgages etc. Should credit qualification extend to utilities though? I don't think so. Everything is OAC these days (on Approved credit.) It is meant to reduce operational risk and expenditure of corporations from high risk customers.

There may be a very valid reason for this change. There are a high number of high risk customers in Texas. Alot of people who rack up major bills and dissappear, or never pay. This might just be cause and affect based on payment performance by this company's customer base.

Poor people can have good credit too though. You have to have financial discipline to control your spending and not over-extend yourself.

This type of ruling could also to be to protect better rates for thier premier customers.

Still doesnt make it right. They should look for an alternative IMO.