BEFORE THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI

 

 

In The Matter of the Cancellation of ExOp of              )        

Missouri, Inc.’s Designation as an Eligible                   )         File No. TO-2015-0136

Telecommunications Carrier for Federal Universal       )

Service Support                                                        )

 

 

ORDER CANCELING ETC DESIGNATION

 

Issue Date:  December 9, 2014                                Effective Date: December 19, 2014  

 

          On November 25, 2014, the Commission’s Staff filed a motion asking the Commission to cancel the Eligible Telecommunications Carrier (ETC) status of ExOp of Missouri, Inc., d/b/a FairPoint Communications.  Staff’s motion explains that ExOp has contacted Staff and asked to relinquish its ETC status in its Kearney and Platte City, Missouri exchanges.[1]  The Commission ordered that anyone wishing to respond to Staff’s motion do so no later than December 5.  No one has responded.

          The Commission will grant Staff’s unopposed motion.

THE COMMISSION ORDERS THAT:

1.          ExOp of Missouri, Inc., d/b/a FairPoint Communications’ designation as an Eligible Telecommunications Carrier for the receipt of low-income support from the federal Universal Service Fund in its Kearney and Platte City, Missouri exchanges is cancelled.

 

 

 

2.          This order shall be effective on December 19, 2014.

                   

                                                            BY THE COMMISSION

 

 

 

 

                                                            Morris L.  Woodruff

                                                            Secretary

 

 

Morris L. Woodruff, Chief Regulatory

Law Judge, by delegation of authority pursuant

to Section 386.240, RSMo 2000.

 

Dated at Jefferson City, Missouri,

on this 9th day of December, 2014.


[1] The Commission granted ExOp of Missouri that designation in an order issued in Case No. TA-2001-251 on May 15, 2001.