20100820Decision Memo.pdf

DECISION MEMORANDUM 1
DECISION MEMORANDUM

TO: COMMISSIONER KEMPTON
COMMISSIONER SMITH
COMMISSIONER REDFORD
COMMISSION SECRETARY
COMMISSION STAFF
LEGAL

FROM: WELDON STUTZMAN
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL

DATE: AUGUST 19, 2010

SUBJECT: CASE NO. WST-T-05-01
WWC HOLDING COMPANY, INC.’S NOTICE OF RELINQUISHMENT
OF ETC DESIGNATION

On July 30, 2010, WWC Holding Company, Inc. filed a Notice of Relinquishment of
its designation as an eligible telecommunications carrier (ETC). The Commission approved
ETC designation for WWC, doing business as Cellular One, in May 2005. The ETC designation
was only in non-rural telephone company service areas of Qwest Corporation. WWC’s notice
states that the Company, through a series of transactions, became a subsidiary of Cellco
Partnership dba Verizon Wireless in 2009. As a condition of the transaction, Verizon Wireless is
required to relinquish its network and other assets in certain designated areas, including the area
for which WWC is designated an ETC in Idaho. As a result, WWC no longer has any customers
in its ETC designated area.
Idaho Code § 62-610D(4) states the Commission “shall permit an eligible
telecommunications carrier to relinquish its designation as such a carrier in any area served by
more than one eligible telecommunications carrier.” The Commission is also required to ensure
that customers of the withdrawing company will continue to be served by another ETC provider.
WWC states it satisfies the statutory requirements because Qwest currently is a provider in the
designated area, WWC has provided notice as required by statute, and it currently has no
customers that require Commission assurance of continued service. WWC requests that the
Commission issue an Order acknowledging that it properly relinquished and is relieved of its
designation as an eligible telecommunications carrier.
DECISION MEMORANDUM 2
Staff recommends the Commission issue an Order finding that WWC has complied
with the statutory requirements for withdrawal of its ETC designation.
COMMISSION DECISION
Should the Commission issue an Order finding that the ETC designation of WWC
Holding Company, Inc. dba Cellular One has been properly relinquished?

Weldon Stutzman
Deputy Attorney General

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