Ex Parte Communications

Pursuant to Rule 8.2 of the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure, ex parte communications are allowed without restriction or reporting in any quasi-legislative proceeding. Therefore, there are no restrictions or reporting requirements applied to this proceeding.

Therefore, IT IS ORDERED that:

1. A rulemaking is instituted on the Commission's own motion to revise requirements established by Decision 97-06-107 for registration of non-dominant interexchange carriers including those that provide long distance, high-speed data services, operator services and prepaid debit card services.

2. The issues to be considered are those set forth in the body of this order.

3. All Commission-regulated telecommunications carriers are made respondents in this proceeding.

4. This rulemaking is preliminarily determined to be a quasi-legislative proceeding as that term is defined in the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure, Rule 1.3(d).

5. This proceeding is preliminarily determined not to require evidentiary hearings.

6. The schedule for this proceeding is as set forth in the body of this order. The assigned Commissioner through his/her scoping memo and subsequent rulings, and the assigned Administrative Law Judge by ruling with the assigned Commissioner's concurrence, may modify the schedule as necessary during the course of the proceeding, provided that we do not anticipate this proceeding to require longer than 18 months to complete.

7. The Executive Director shall cause copies of this order to be served on respondents to the proceeding, and on those on the service lists for the following dockets: R.00-02-004.

8. After initial service of this order, a new service list for the proceeding shall be established following procedures set forth in this order. The assigned Commissioner, and the assigned Administrative Law Judge acting with the assigned Commissioner's

concurrence, shall have ongoing oversight of the service list and may institute changes to the list or the procedures governing it as necessary.

This order is effective today.

Dated July 9, 2009, at San Francisco, California.

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