HomeMy WebLinkAbout20130610_4072.pdfDECISION MEMORANDUM 1
DECISION MEMORANDUM
TO: COMMISSIONER KJELLANDER
COMMISSIONER REDFORD
COMMISSIONER SMITH
COMMISSION SECRETARY
COMMISSION STAFF
LEGAL
FROM: KARL KLEIN
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL
DATE: MAY 31, 2013
SUBJECT: SILVER STAR TELEPHONE COMPANY’S PETITION TO AMEND ITS
CERTIFICATED SERVICE AREA BOUNDARY, CASE NO. SIL-T-13-01
On February 11, 2013, Silver Star Telephone Company, Inc. petitioned the
Commission for an Order amending the service area boundary described in the Company’s
Certificate No. 207. See Petition for Amendment of Certificated Service Area Boundary
(“Petition”). On May 13, 2013, the Company filed revised service area boundary illustrations
and descriptions. The Company asks the Commission to process the case under Modified
Procedure.
THE PETITION
The Company is a Title 61 regulated telephone corporation organized under
Wyoming law, with its principal place of business in Freedom, Wyoming. It is authorized to do
business in Idaho. Petition at 1. The Company provides basic local exchange
telecommunications services, mobile telephone services, transport services to interexchange
carriers, special access services, broadband, and other telecommunications services that
customers may require. Id.
The Commission issued Certificate No. 207 to the Company in 1953. See Order No.
2312. The Certificate was amended three times after that. Petition at 2. The Company now
requests another amendment to the Certificate to correct the certificated exchange areas so they
accurately reflect the Company’s actual service areas. The Company says it has served the areas
within the corrected boundaries since at least 1963, and that it remains willing to serve, and is
best able to serve, the customers within the corrected boundaries. Id.
DECISION MEMORANDUM 2
The Company says the requested Certificate amendment will not affect any other
certificated telephone carrier’s service area boundary, and that the corrected boundaries are not
near and will not interfere with any other’s utility’s existing lines, plants, or systems. Id.
The Company’s Petition and subsequent May 13, 2013, filing attached copies of the
Company’s Certificate as amended to date, illustrations depicting the Company’s actual service
area, and a legal description for each amended certificate service area exchange being requested.
The Company asks the Commission to grant an amendment to the Certificate that incorporates
the boundary correction adjustments. See Petition at 3; May 13, 2013 filing.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends that the Commission process the Company’s Petition under
Modified Procedure with a 21-day comment period.
COMMISSION DECISION
Does the Commission wish to process the Company’s Petition under Modified
Procedure with a 21-day comment period?
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