2. Description of Applicants

Access One, a privately held New Jersey corporation headquartered in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, provides integrated voice, data and video transmission services. It is not certificated to provide telecommunications services in any jurisdiction. However, its wholly owned subsidiary, The Other Phone Company doing business as Access One Communications (Other Phone) is authorized to provide resold local exchange and interexchange services in nine states. Under the proposed merger here, Other Phone and OmniCall will exist as two discrete wholly owned subsidiaries of Access One, with only OmniCall holding certification to provide telecommunications services in California.

OmniCall Acquisition Corp. (OmniCall Acquisition) is a newly formed Florida corporation that is a direct and wholly owned subsidiary of Access One, also with principal offices in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. OmniCall Acquisition was formed exclusively for the purpose of effecting the proposed transaction.

OmniCall is a privately held South Carolina corporation authorized to provide intrastate interexchange services in 32 states and local service in eight jurisdictions. This Commission granted OmniCall certification to provide resold local exchange services on June 5, 1998, in Decision (D.) 98-06-037, and interexchange services on July 23, 1998, in D.98-07-073. Its utility identification number is U-6003-C.