20180302Decision Memo.pdf

DECISION MEMORANDUM
TO COMMISSIONER KJELLANDER
COMMISSIONER RAPER
COMMISSIONER ANDERSON
COMMISSION SECRETARY
COMMISSION STAFF
FROM:SEAN COSTELLO
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL
DATE: MARCH 2,2018
SUBJECT: PEERLESS NETWORK OF IDAHO, LLC'S APPLICATION FOR A
CERTIFICATE OF PUBLIC CONVENIENCE AND NECESSITY; CASE
NO. PEN-T-I7-01
On August 25, 2017, Peerless Network of Idaho, LLC (Peerless) applied to the
Commission for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity (CPCN) authorizing it to
provide local exchange and interexchange telecommunications services in Idaho. Peerless
supplemented its initial Application with revised tariffs on February 21,2018.
THE APPLICATION
Peerless is a limited liability company, headquartered at 222 S. Riverside Plaza, Suite
2730, Chicago, IL 60606, and is certified to operate in Idaho. Application at 2. Peerless
proposes, and requests authority, to provide telecommunications services to large business and
enterprise customers, and wholesale facilities-based services to CLECs, VoIP providers, and
wireless providers. Id. at 3. Peerless intends to focus its service offerings in the territories of
CenturyLink and Frontier, and, if certified, pursue interconnection agreements with those
providers. 1d. Peerless has reviewed and agrees to comply with all Commission rules. Id. at 5.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends that the Commission process Peerless's Application under
Modified Procedure with a 21-day comment period.
DECISION MEMORANDUM I
COMMISSION DECISION
Does the Commission wish to process Peerless's Application under Modified
Procedure with a 2l-day comment period?
(H
Costello
Deputy Attorney General
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