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HomeMy WebLinkAbout20031110Response of Citizens to Clear Talk.pdfMorgan W. Richards, ISB No. 1913 MOFFATT, THOMAS, BARRETT, ROCK & FIELDS, CHARTERED 101 S. Capitol Boulevard, 10th Floor Post Office Box 829 Boise, Idaho 83701 Telephone: (208) 345-2000 Facsimile: (208) 385-5384 mwr~moffatt.com 15-881.19 RECEIVED FilED znU3~mv I m PM 12: 33 FUELIC UTILITIES CGr'1I'1ISS!ON Attorneys for Citizens Telecommunications Company of Idaho BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION IN THE MATTER OF THE PETITION IAT COMMUNICATIONS, INc., d. NTCH-IDAHO, INc. OR CLEAR TALK FOR DESIGNATION AS AN ELIGIBLE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CARRIER Case No. GNR-03- IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OFNPCR INC. d.a. NEXTELPARTNERS SEEKING DESIGNATION AS AN ELIGIBLE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CARRIER Case No. GNR-03- CITIZENS TELECO MMUNI CA TI 0 NS COMPANY OF IDAHO'S RESPONSES TO CLEAR TALK'S DATA REQUESTS Citizens Telecommunications Company ofldaho hereby responds to Clear Talk' Data Requests follows: Request No.Res onse 1. Please identify any upstream or downstream affiliates of Citizens, and explain the relationship to each such affiliate, including any parent, holding company or cross-affiliate. See attached section of the Cost Allocation Manual used for CTC-Idaho as filed with the FCC. CITIZENS TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANY OF IDAHO' RESPONSES TO CLEAR TALK'S DATA REQUESTS - 1 BOI MT2:528659. 3. Please identify by name, title, address and telephone number each person(s) who participated in preparing responses to these Data Requests. All responses were prepared by Lance Tade, Manager State Government Affairs, 4 Triad Center, Suite 200, Salt Lake City, UT 84180, (801) 924-6357. 4. Please identify by name, title, address and telephone number each person(s) who can testify regarding each response to these Data Requests. Lance Tade, Manager State Government Affairs, 4 Triad Center, Suite 200, Salt Lake City, UT 84180, (801) 924-6357 can testify regarding all responses. 5. Does Citizens, including its employees, officers, agents or outside consultants subscribe to Clear Talk's wireless service in Idaho? Objection filed. Without waiving said objection, Respondent answers there are none to his knowledge. 7. Please identify the wirecenter(s) through which you, including any affiliate(s), provide service. 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. Please identify, in terms of percentage of wire center area, the extent of your service coverage in the foregoing wirecenter(s). Please identify any areas within the foregoing wirecenter(s) where service is not currently provided by you. Upon receipt of a service request for a wire center 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? Do you have any outstanding (i.e., unfulfilled) requests for service in the foregoing wirecenter(s)? If the answer to the above question is affirmative, please identify each request by location and date of request. If you have any outstanding (i.e., unfulfilled) requests for service in the foregoing wirecenter(s), please estimate when each request will be fulfilled. CITIZENS TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANY OF IDAHO' RESPONSES TO CLEAR TALK'S DATA REQUESTS - 2 BOI MT2:528659. What is your average monthly revenue per customer for the foregoing wirecenter(s)? What is the average monthly revenue per customer for the foregoing wirecenter(s) without USF support? Citizens provides service in the following exchanges: Homedale, McCall, Marsing, Wilder, Parma, Garden Valley, Aberdeen, Cascade, Horseshoe Bend, Riggins, Donnelly, Fairfield, Springfield, Carey, New Meadows, Sweet, White Bird, and Elk City. Frontier Communications of America, an inter-exchange carrier, offers service throughout the state. Electric Lightwave, a competitive local exchange carrier, provides service in the Boise Valley and other exchanges within Qwest's Southern Idaho service area. Objection filed. Without waiving said objection, no changes have been made since CTC- Idaho acquired its service area from GTE in 1994. 100 percent. Citizens is not aware of any other provider of regulated wireline service within the foregoing exchanges. Typically less than 30 days. The only outstanding service requests are those pending customer action. Not applicable. Not applicable. Objection filed. Without waiving said objection, Respondent states that total averages can be found in its annual report on file with the Commission. Objection filed. Without waiving said objection, Respondent states that total averages can be found in its annual report on file with the Commission. USF funds could be subtracted from the averages. 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. Objection filed. Without waiving said objection, Respondent states that costs vary widely by location. On average CTC- Idaho has invested $4 213 per access line. CITIZENS TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANY OF IDAHO' RESPONSES TO CLEAR TALK'S DATA REQUESTS - 3 BOI MT2:528659. 12. support. Please identify the percentage of your subscribers for which you receive USF 100 percent. 13. Do you have any Idaho interconnection agreements that are not publicly available through the Idaho Public Utilities Commission? No. 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). Not applicable. 16. Have you ever been approached by Clear Talk or any other carrier to cooperatively offer wireless service in Idaho? No. 17. If your answer to the foregoing question is affirmative, did you decide to offer wireless service? Not applicable. 18. If your answer to the foregoing question is negative, please explain why you decided against trying to offer wireless service. Not applicable. 19.What Internet access products and services do you offer to your customers? Dialed internet is provided by Citizens in all exchanges except Aberdeen, Carey, Fairfield and Elk City. DSL is presently provided by Citizens in McCall, Cascade, Donnelly, New Meadows and Riggins. 20. What Internet access products and services do you plan to offer within the next 12 months to your customers? Objection filed. Without waiving said objection, Respondent states that plans for 2004 include dialed internet in all exchanges except Elk City and DSL rollouts in Homedale Horseshoe Bend, Garden Valley, Parma and Wilder. CITIZENS TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANY OF IDAHO' RESPONSES TO CLEAR TALK'S DATA REQUESTS - 4 BOI MT2:528659. 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? No. 22. 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 company(ies) and describe your relationship with the company(ies). Not applicable. 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. Not applicable. 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. . Not applicable. 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). Not applicable. 26. Please identify all vendor(s) that provide switching services and/or infrastructure to you. Qwest (tandem switching and jointly provided access), Cambridge Telephone Company (jointly provided access), and numerous IXCs (jointly provided access). 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). Not applicable. CITIZENS TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANY OF IDAHO' RESPONSES TO CLEAR TALK'S DATA REQUESTS - 5 BOI MT2:528659. 36. Please provide to Clear Talk copies of your answers and/objections to Data Requests by NPRC, Inc. d/b/a NEXTEL PARTNERS dated October 20, 2003. All requested documents have been served on Clear Talk. RESPECTFULLY submitted this 10th day of November, 2003. MOFFATT, THOMAS, BARRETT, ROCK & FIELDS, CHARTERED By Morgan . Richards - Of the Fi Attorneys for Citizens Telecommunications Company ofldaho CITIZENS TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANY OF IDAHO' RESPONSES TO CLEAR TALK'S DATA REQUESTS - 6 BOI MT2:528659. CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I HEREBY CERTIFY that on this 10th day of November, 2003, I caused a true and correct copy of the foregoing CITIZENS TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANY OF IDAHO'S RESPONSES TO CLEAR TALK'S DATA REQUESTS to be served by the method indicated below, and addressed to the following: John Hammond, Deputy AG IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION 472 West Washington Street Post Office Box 83720 Boise, Idaho 83720-0074 ) U...$. Mail, Postage Prepaid ~and Delivered ( ) Overnight Mail ( ) Facsimile Sean P. Farrell, Esq. !AT COMMUNICATIONS, INC. NTCH-IDAHO INC., DBA CLEAR TALK 703 Pier Avenue, Suite B, PMB 813 Hermosa Beach, California 90254 (~S. Mail, Postage Prepaid ( ) Hand Delivered ( ) 9vernight Mail ( 1Facsimile ( ~ Mail, Postage Prepaid ( ) Hand Delivered ( ) Overnight Mail ( ) Facsimile Molly O'Leary, Esq. RICHARDSON & O'LEARY, PLLC 99 East State Street, Suite 200 Eagle, Idaho 83616 Philip R. Schenkenberg, Esq. BRIGGS AND MORGAN, P. 2200 First National Bank Building 332 Minnesota Street St. Paul, Minnesota 55101 4s. Mail, Postage Prepaid ( ) Hand Delivered ~ !2vernight Mail ('j l'acsimile ( ~: Mail, Postage Prepaid ( ) Hand Delivered ( ) Overnight Mail ( ) Facsimile Dean J. Miller, Esq. 420 West Bannock Post Office Box 2564-83701 Boise, Idaho 83702 Conley Ward GIVENS PURSLEY LLP 277 North 6th Street, Suite 200 Post Office Box 2720 Boise, Idaho 83701 ~ Mail, Postage Prepaid ( ) Hand Delivered ( ) Overnight Mail ( 4fYacsimile CITIZENS TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANY OF IDAHO' RESPONSES TO CLEAR TALK'S DATA REQUESTS - 7 BOI MT2:528659. Lance A. Tade, Manager State Government Affairs CITIZENS TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANY OF IDAHO 4 Triad Center, Suite 200 Salt Lake City, UT 84180 Robert M. Nielsen 548 E Street Post Office Box 706 Rupert, Idaho 83350 Charles H. Creason, Jr. President and General Manager PROJECT MUTUAL TELEPHONE COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION, INC. 507 G Street Post Office Box 366 Rupert, Idaho 83350 Mary S. Hobson STOEL, RIVES, LLP. 101 South Capitol Boulevard, Suite 1900 Boise, Idaho 83702 ~. Mail, Postage Prepaid ( ) Hand Delivered ( ) Overnight Mail ( ) Facsimile (4.~. Mail, Postage Prepaid ( ) Hand Delivered ( ) Overnight Mail ( ) Facsimile ~. Mail, Postage Prepaid ( ) Hand Delivered ( ) Overnight Mail ( ) Facsimile ~S. Mail, Postage Prepaid ( ) Hand Delivered ( ) Overnight Mail ( ) Facsimile N. W . iUJj, -;j Morgan W. 'chards CITIZENS TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANY OF IDAHO' RESPONSES TO CLEAR TALK'S DATA REQUESTS - 8 BOI MT2:528659. EXHIBIT TO ANSWER NO. IV. CHART OF AFFILIATES A. Citizens Communications Company ("Parent") provides , through operating divisions and subsidiaries, diversified services including local exchange, interexchange and commercial mobile radio telecommunications services; electric, gas, water and waste water utility services; and cable television services. Exhibit IV-1 hereto is a graphic depiction of Parent's operating divisions, which includes administrative and non-telecommunications utilities services operations. Exhibit IV-2 hereto is a graphic depiction of Parent's subsidiaries engaged in telecommunications operations. Exhibit IV-3 hereto is a graphic depiction of Parent's subsidiaries engaged in television, energy, water/waste water, and other operations. The Parent's organization charts described above include all affiliated corporations, partnerships or other business organizations which currently provide or receive, or have the potential to provide or receive, equipment or services to or from Citizens Telecom. 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