19990113.docx

January 13, 1999
Mr. Thomas M.  Forte
Technologies Management, Inc.
PO Drawer 200
Winter Park, FL 32790-0200
RE: Idaho Public Utilities Commission Case No.  GNR-T-98-15—Application of CCCID, Inc. dba Connect!  For Authority to Provide Local Exchange Services Throughout Idaho
Dear Mr. Forte:
This Commission received your Application for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity  on behalf of Connect! on October 6, 1998.  The following chain of events pertaining to Connect!’s Application was provided to me by Birdelle Brown with the Commission Staff.
The Commission Staff initially reviewed your Application and identified several areas that needed to be clarified or changed in order to comply with Idaho statutes and/or rules and Orders of the Idaho Public Utilities Commission.  According to Ms. Brown, after discussing these areas with you on the telephone, she sent you a copy of her notes on October 14, 1998, requesting that you either revise your Application and tariff or call her so that you could discuss the matter.  On November 25, 1998, Ms. Brown again contacted you and expressed her desire to receive the modifications in time to begin processing Connect!’s Application under Modified Procedure by the end of December 1998.  Ms. Brown did not receive a response from you.  On December 10, 1998, she faxed you a request for such a response.  On December 16, 1998, she telephoned you requesting a response.  At that time, you advised her that you would have a completed, modified package on her desk by the following Monday.  It was never received.  On December 29, 1998, Ms. Brown left you a voice message advising you that if she did not have your package within a week, the Commission Staff would consider Connect!’s Application incomplete.
As of today, the Commission has still not received any information from you in completion of Connect!’s Application.  Consequently, I hereby inform you that, unless Staff receives a completed Application from Connect! on or before January 19, 1999, it will file a Motion to Dismiss Connect!’s Application with the Commission.  
Incidently, the Commission has received an Application from U S WEST for approval of Connect!’s interconnection agreement.  By copy of this letter, I am advising U S WEST of the current status of Connect’s Application for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity.  
Sincerely,
Brad Purdy
Deputy Attorney General
Idaho Public Utilities Commission
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cc:Mr. Ed Moore, Executive Director
Connect Holding Corporation
123 W Capitol, Ste 200
PO Box 3607
Little Rock, AR 72201
J.E. Wozniak
U S WEST Communications
PO Box 7888
Boise, ID 83723
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