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HomeMy WebLinkAbout200310211st Discovery Requests to Project Mutual from Clear Talk.pdfMolly O'Leary, Esq. (ISB # 4996) Richardson & O'Leary, PLLC 99 E. State Street, Suite 200 Eagle, Idaho 83616 (208) 938-7900 Sean P. Farrell, Esq. General Counsel IA T Communications, Inc. NTCH - Idaho Inc., dba Clear Talk 703 Pier Avenue, Suite B , PMB 813 Hermosa Beach, CA 90254 (310) 548-0939 EECEJVED f~'!f ' ,~:,:.! r~~ 2UG3 OCT 20 PM 4: 51 , U t Uc:LICUTiUTlES CO~it'HSSION BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION In the Matter of the Petition of IA T Communications, Inc., d.a. NTCH-Idaho, Inc. ) or Clear Talk, for Designation as an Eligible Telecommunications Carrier. In the Matter of the Application ofNPCR, INC. d/b/a NEXTEL PARTNERS Seeking Designation as an Eligible Telecommunications Carrier that may receive Federal Universal Service Support. CASE NO. Docket No. GNR-O3- CASE NO. Docket No. GNR-O3- CLEAR TALK'S FIRST SET OF DISCOVERY REQUESTS TO PROJECT MUTUAL TELEPHONE COOPERATIVE NTCH-Idaho, Inc. dba Clear Talk ("Clear Talk"), hereby submits the following First Set of Data Requests to the Project Mutual Telephone Cooperative ("Project Mutual") as follows: INSTRUCTIONS AND DEFINITIONS The interrogatories and document requests are governed by the following definitions and instructions: In your response, please repeat the Data Request in advance of your answer. CLEAR TALK'S FIRST SET OF DISCOVERY REQUESTS TO PROJECT MUTUAL Please provide your responses in an electronic format that can be both read and edited. Definitions You" or "your" - means or pertains to the Project Mutual Telephone Cooperative ("Project Mutual"), including without limitation officers directors, employees, agents, attomeys, corporate subsidiaries and affiliates of Project Mutual. Project Mutual Telephone Cooperative" or "Project Mutual" refers to the organization, including without limitation its officers, directors employees, agents, attorneys, corporate subsidiaries and affiliates. Persons" - Means any and all natural persons, corporations, businesses firms, companies, partnerships, unincorporated associations, governmental or public agencies, joint ventures and all other entities, including, without limitation, all employees, representatives, consultants and agents of any of the foregoing. Documents" - Means any and all written, electronic or graphic matter, of any kind or description, however created, produced, reproduced or stored whether sent or received, or whether originals, copies or drafts, including, but not limited to, every side of every page of all letters, papers, books correspondence, bulletins, circulars, instructions, telegrams, cables, telex messages, facsimiles, memoranda, notes, notations, work papers transcripts, minutes, reports, recordings of notes or meetings, conferences interviews or telephone or other conversations, affidavits, statements summaries, opinions, studies, analyses, evaluations, work sheets CLEAR TALK'S FIRST SET OF DISCOVERY REQUESTS TO PROJECT MUTUAL contracts, agreements, journals, statistical records, desk or pocket calendars, appointment books, diaries, lists, tabulations, advertisements sketches, drawings, blue prints, catalogs, audio or video records photographs, computer printouts, e-mail transmissions, data processing input and output, deeds, microfilm, all other records kept by electronic photographic or electrical means, and things similar to any of the foregoing however denominated. Relating to" or "Relate(s) to - Means directly or indirectly mentioning, consisting of, evidencing, describing, referring to, pertaining to, being connected with, or reflecting upon the stated subject matter. The words "any" and "all" shall be considered to include each and every. The singular of any word shall include the plural and the plural of any word shall include the singular. The word "expert" as used herein includes any person who will be offering expert testimony on behalf of Project Mutual or who has been consulted or relied upon by any person who assisted in the preparation of the responses to these interrogatories and document production requests or who will be offering testimony on behalf of Project Mutual in this matter. CLEAR TALK'S FIRST SET OF DISCOVERY REQUESTS TO PROJECT MUTUAL Instructions In answering these interrogatories and document requests, you are required to furnish all information that is available to you, or subject to your reasonable inquiry, including the information in the possession of you, your attorneys or other persons directly, or indirectly employed by, or connected with, you or your attorneys, and anyone else other wise subject to your control. In answering each interrogatory and document request: Identify by title, heading or caption, date, sender, recipient, location and custodian, each Document relied upon, reviewed or which forms a basis for the response given or which corroborates or Relates to the response given or the subject of what is given in response to these discovery requests; State whether the information furnished is within the personal knowledge of the person responding and, if not, the name, ifknown, of each person to whom the information is a matter of personal knowledge; Identify each person who assisted or participated in preparing and/or supplying any of the information given in response to or relied upon in preparing responses to these discovery requests; Where a discovery request calls for a response in multiple parts, each part should be separated in the response so that the response is clearly understandable and complete; Where the name or identity of a person is requested, state the full name business address, and any telephone numbers of each person; If any of your responses require the production of documents, label the documents to indicate the discovery request to which you are responding. CLEAR TALK'S FIRST SET OF DISCOVERY REQUESTS TO PROJECT MUTUAL If you object to the production of any Document called for in these document requests, for each such Document state the following: (1) the reasons for the objection and any facts supporting the objection; (2) give a description of each Document including, without limitation, the date, sender, recipient(s), persons to whom copies have been furnished, job titles of each of the persons, subject matter of the Document, number of pages of the Document, the number( s) of the request to which such Document is responsive and the identity of the person in whose custody the Document is presently located. If any Document is withheld under claim of privilege or work product furnish a list identifying each Document for which the privilege or work product is claimed, together with the following information for each such Document: date, sender recipient(s), persons to whom copies were furnished, job titles of each ofthose persons subject matter of the Document, number of pages of the Document, the bases on which the privileges or work product is claimed, the paragraph(s) of these requests to which the Document responds, the person in whose custody the Document is presently located, and whether any matter that is not privileged or is not work product is discussed or mentioned in each Document. If any Document requested was, but is no longer in the possession or subject to the control of Project Mutual, or is no longer in existence, state whether it: (I) is missing or lost; (2) has been destroyed; (3) has been transferred voluntarily or involuntarily to others and state the identity of the persons to whom it has been transferred; (4) has otherwise been disposed of, or in each instance explain the circumstances surrounding such disposition, state the date or approximate date thereof and the identity of the persons with knowledge of such circumstances; (5) identify the CLEAR TALK'S FIRST SET OF DISCOVERY REQUESTS TO PROJECT MUTUAL Documents that are missing, lost, destroyed, transferred or otherwise disposed of, by author, date, subject matter, addressee(s), and the number of pages. If you do not clearly understand, or have any questions about, these definitions, instructions interrogatories or requests, contact Clear Talk's counsel promptly for clarification. These Data Requests are continuing in nature and require supplemental responses upon the discovery or receipt of new or additional information. DATA REQUESTS 1. Please identify any upstream or downstream affiliates of Project Mutual, and explain the relationship to each such affiliate, including any parent, holding company or cross-affiliate. 2. Please identify all services provided to your customers, including whether such service is available throughout your service area. 3. Please identify by name, title, address and telephone number each person(s) who participated in preparing responses to these Data Requests. 4. Please identify by name, title, address and telephone number each person(s) who can testify regarding each response to these Data Requests. 5. Does Project Mutual, including its employees, officers, agents or outside consultants, subscribe to Clear Talk's wireless service in Idaho? 6. If Project Mutual, including its respective employees, officers, agents or outside consultants, subscribe to Clear Talk's wireless service in Idaho, please identify such subscribers by name and specify how long they have subscribed to Clear Talk's wireless service in Idaho. 7. Please identify the wirecenter( s) through which you, including any affi1iate( s), provide service. a. Please provide a detailed map of the boundaries for the wirecenter(s) identified in response to foregoing question. b. Please specify when the foregoing wirecenter(s) was/were established. CLEAR TALK'S FIRST SET OF DISCOVERY REQUESTS TO PROJECT MUTUAL c. If the boundaries for the foregoing wirecenter(s) have been changed in any way since the wirecenter(s) was/were originally established, please identify any changes made, and when and why those changes were made. d. Please provide a map of your network in the foregoing wirecenter(s). e. Please provide a map showing your service coverage in the foregoing wirecenter( s f. Please identify, in terms of percentage of wirecenter area, the extent of your service coverage in the foregoing wirecenter(s). g. Please identify any areas within the foregoing wirecenter(s) where service is not currently provided by you. h. Please identify any plans you have to increase service in the foregoing wirecenter(s) and the schedule for any planned improvements. i. Upon receipt of a service request for a wirecenter served by you, in a location where you do not currently provide service, how long does it take for you to provide service to that location? J. Do you have any outstanding (i., unfulfilled) requests for service in the foregoing wirecenter(s)? k. If the answer to the above question is affirmative, please identify each request by location and date of request. l. If you have any outstanding (i., unfulfilled) requests for service in the foregoing wirecenter(s), please estimate when each request will be fulfilled. m. Please identify the "local calling area(s)" provided to your customers in the foregoing wirecenter(s). n. What is your average monthly revenue per customer for the foregoing wirecenter(s)? o. What is the average monthly revenue per customer for the foregoing wirecenter( s) without USF support? p. Have you lost any access lines or customers since Clear Talk began offering service in the foregoing wirecenter(s)? q. If you have lost any access lines and/or customers since Clear Talk began offering service in the foregoing wirecenter(s), please identify the number CLEAR TALK'S FIRST SET OF DISCOVERY REQUESTS TO PROJECT MUTUAL of lines or customers lost for each such wirecenter and when such lines and/or customers were reportedly lost. r. If you have lost any access lines and/or customers since Clear Talk began offering service in the foregoing wirecenter(s), for each such wirecenter please provide copies of any documents or materials or analyses which reportedly attribute the loss oflines and/or customers to the presence of Clear Talk's wireless service. s. If you have lost any access lines and/or customers since Clear Talk began offering service in the foregoing wirecenter(s), for each such wirecenter please provide copies of any documents or materials or analyses which reportedly attribute the loss oflines and/or customers to any factor(s) other than the presence of Clear Talk's wireless service. t. Itemize your capital expenditures in the foregoing wirecenter( s) in 2002 and 2003. 9. Upon receipt of a service request for a wirecenter in a location where you do not currently provide service, please estimate the costs associated with providing service to such a location. 10. Please describe or provide copies of your policies or analyses for evaluating service requests for a location where service is not provided. 11.Please itemize the level ofUSF support that you receive for each month in 2003. 12. Please identify the percentage of your subscribers for which you receive USF support. 13. Do you have any Idaho interconnection agreements that are not publicly available through the Idaho Public Utilities Commission? 14. If you have any Idaho interconnection agreements that are not publicly available through the Idaho Public Utilities Commission, please provide copies of such interconnection agreement(s). 15. Please provide details regarding the long distance products and services that you offer to your customers. 16. Have you ever been approached by Clear Talk or any other carrier to cooperatively offer wireless service in Idaho? 17. If your answer to the foregoing question is affirmative, did you decide to offer wireless service? CLEAR TALK'S FIRST SET OF DISCOVERY REQUESTS TO PROJECT MUTUAL 18. If your answer to the foregoing question is negative, please explain why you decided against trying to offer wireless service. 19.What Internet access products and services do you offer to your customers? 20. What Internet access products and services do you plan to offer within the next 12 months to your customers? 21. Are you affiliated in any way with any company(ies) that have applied for designation as a competitive, wireless Eligible Telecommunications Carrier in any jurisdiction within the United States? 22. If your are affiliated in any way with any company(ies) that have applied for designation as a competitive, wireless Eligible Telecommunications Carrier in any jurisdiction within the United States, please identify the company(ies) and describe your relationship with the company (ies). 23. If you are affiliated in any way with any company(ies) that have applied for designation as a competitive, wireless Eligible Telecommunications Carrier in any jurisdiction within the United States, please identify the applying entity, the authority to which the application(s) was made, the date(s) of each application, any identifying docket number(s), the status of the application proceeding, and whether or not ETC designation has been granted. 24. If you or any company(ies) affiliated with you have applied for designation as a competitive, wireless Eligible Telecommunications Carrier in any jurisdiction within the United States, please identify the technology being used, or proposed to be used, to provide the supported services required of ETCs. 25. If you or any company(ies) affiliated with you have applied for designation as a competitive, wireless Eligible Telecommunications Carrier in any jurisdiction within the United States, please identify the charges, or proposed charges, to be levied against customers for the wireless universal service offering(s). 26. Please identify all vendor(s) that provide switching services and/or infrastructure to you. 27. Please identify your efforts, if any, in 2002 and 2003 to reduce costs, improve service, expand its network and/or offer new products and services to your customers. 28. Please provide copies of any memoranda, meeting notes, emails or other communications regarding your efforts to reduce costs, improve service, expand your network and/or offer new products and services to its customers in 2002 and 2003. 29. Please provide copies and documentation of all communication(s), including notes of any telephone conversations, between you and the Idaho PUC regarding Clear Talk's ETC Application. CLEAR TALK'S FIRST SET OF DISCOVERY REQUESTS TO PROJECT MUTUAL 30. Please provide copies and documentation of all communication(s), including notes of any telephone conversations, between you and the Idaho PUC regarding the designation of competitive Eligible Telecommunications Carriers. 31. To the extent that you objected to any prior applications and/or stipulations regarding ETC designation between the Idaho PUC and any wireless carrieres), please state all objections raised by you with respect to the stipulation(s). 32. Please provide copies of the documents relating to your decision to challenge Clear Talk's Application for ETC designation in the state of Idaho, including but not limited to memorandums, board of director minutes, management presentations correspondence and financial analysis and forecasts. 33. Please provide copies of the documents relating to your decision to request and/or accept designation as an ETC in the state of Idaho, including but not limited to memorandums, board of director minutes, management presentations, correspondence and financial analysis and forecasts. 34. Please provide copies of your financial statements for the six months ended June 2003 and audited financial statements for the fiscal years 2002, 2001 , and 2000. 35. Please provide copies your state of Idaho income tax reports for the fiscal year 2002. RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED, this 20th day of October, 2003. daho, Inc. dba Clear Talk CLEAR TALK'S FIRST SET OF DISCOVERY REQUESTS TO PROJECT MUTUAL CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I HEREBY CERTIFY that on this of October, 2003, I caused a true and correct copy ofthe foregoing CLEAR TALK'mRST.lSET OF DISCOVERY REQUESTS PROJECT MUTUAL TELEPHONE COOPERATIVE to be served by the method indicated below, and addressed to the following: Jean Jewell Idaho Public Utilities Commission 472 West Washington Street Post Office Box 83720 Boise, Idaho 83720-0074 (x) U.S. Mail, Postage Prepaid ( ) Hand Delivered ( ) Overnight Mail ( ) Facsimile ( ) Electronic Mail Dean J. Miller, Esq. 420 West Bannock Post Office Box 2564-83701 Boise, Idaho 83702 (208) 336-6912 (Fax) ioe~mcdevitt -miller. com ( ) U.S. Mail, Postage Prepaid ( ) Hand Delivered ( ) Overnight Mail ( ) Facsimile (X ) Electronic Mail Philip R. Schenkenberg, Esq. 2200 First National Bank Building 332 Minnesota Street St. Paul, Minnesota 55101 pschenkenberg~bri ggs. com ( ) U.S. Mail, Postage Prepaid ( ) Hand Delivered ( ) Overnight Mail ( ) Facsimile (X ) Electronic Mail Conley Ward Givens Pursley LLP 277 North 6th Street, Suite 200 Post Office Box 2720 Boise, Idaho 83701 (208) 388-1300 (Fax) mailto: cew~givenspursley. com ( ) U.S. Mail, Postage Prepaid ( ) Hand Delivered ( ) Overnight Mail ( ) Facsimile (X ) Electronic Mail Lance A. Tade, Manager State Government Affairs Citizens Telecommunications Company of Idaho 4 Triad Center, Suite 200 Salt Lake City, UT 84180 ltade~czn. com ( ) U.S. Mail, Postage Prepaid ( ) Hand Delivered ( ) Overnight Mail ( ) Facsimile (X ) Electronic Mail CLEAR TALK CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE - 1 Charles H. Creason, Jr. President and General Manager Project Mutual Telephone Cooperative Association, Inc. 507 G Street Post Office Box 366 Rupert, Idaho 83350 John Hammond, Deputy AG Idaho Public Utilities Commission 472 West Washington Street Boise, Idaho 83720-0074 (208) 334-3762 (Fax) ihammon~puc.state.id. us Clay Sturgis, Senior Manager MOSS ADAMS LLP 601 Riverside, Suite 1800 Spokane, W A 99201-0063 clays~mossadams.com Morgan W. Richards, Esq. Moffatt, Thomas, Barrett, Rock & Fields 101 S. Capitol Blvd th Floor P. O. Box 829 Boise, Idaho 83701-0829 (208) 385-5384 (Fax) mwr~moffatt.com Mary S. Hobson Stoel Rives LLP 101 S. Capitol Blvd, Suite 1900 Boise, Idaho 83702-5958 (208) 389-9040 (Fax) mshobson~stoel.com CLEAR TALK CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE - 2 (X) U.S. Mail, Postage Prepaid ( ) Hand Delivered ( ) Overnight Mail ( ) Facsimile ( ) Electronic Mail ( ) U.S. Mail, Postage Prepaid ( ) Hand Delivered ( ) Overnight Mail ( ) Facsimile ( X ) Electronic Mail ( ) U.S. Mail, Postage Prepaid ( ) Hand Delivered ( ) Overnight Mail ( ) Facsimile (X ) Electronic Mail ( ) U.S. Mail, Postage Prepaid ( ) Hand Delivered ( ) Overnight Mail ( ) Facsimile (X) Electronic Mail ( ) U.S. Mail, Postage Prepaid ( ) Hand Delivered ( ) Overnight Mail ( ) Facsimile (X) Electronic Mail Robert M. Nielsen 548 E Street Post Office Box 706 Rupert, Idaho 83350 (X) U.S. Mail, Postage Prepaid ( ) Hand Delivered ( ) Overnight Mail ( ) Facsimile ( ) Electronic Mail CLEAR TALK CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE - 3