BEFORE
THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
OF THE STATE OF
In the Matter
of the Cancellation of the Certificate )
Of Service
Authority of Consolidated )
File No. XD- 2013-0528
Communications
Enterprise Services, Inc., d/b/a )
Consolidated Communications
Operator Services )
To Provide
Intrastate Interexchange and )
Non-Switched
Local Exchange Telecommunications )
Services in
the State of Missouri )
ORDER
DIRECTING NOTICE
Issue Date: June 27, 2013 Effective
Date: June 27, 2013
On June 19, 2013, the Staff of the
Missouri Public Service Commission filed a motion requesting Consolidated
Enterprise Services, Inc., d/b/a Consolidated Communications Operator Services’
(“Operator”) certificate of service authority and associated tariff to provide
intrastate interexchange and non-switched local exchange telecommunication
services in the State of Missouri be cancelled.
The Commission need not hold a
hearing, if, after proper notice and opportunity to intervene, no party requests
such a hearing.[1] Therefore, if no request for a hearing or
objection to Staff’s motion is received, the Commission may cancel the
certificate based on Staff’s motion.
The
Commission finds that proper persons shall be allowed 10 days from the issuance
of this order to file a motion for hearing.
THE COMMISSION ORDERS THAT:
1. Any party wishing to file an objection or
request a hearing shall do so by filing a pleading no later than July 8, 2013,
with:
Secretary
Post
Office Box 360
or
via the Commission’s Electronic Information and Filing System (EFIS) at: www.psc.mo.gov.
2. This order shall become effective upon
issuance.
BY THE COMMISSION
Morris
L. Woodruff
Secretary
(SEAL)
Kim
S. Burton, Regulatory
Law
Judge, by delegation of authority
pursuant
to Section 386.240, RSMo 2000.
Dated
at
on
this 27th day of June, 2013.
[1] State ex reI. Rex Deffenderfer Enterprises, Inc. v. Public Service Commission, 776 S.W.2d 494 (Mo. App. W.D. 1989).