9. 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:
6. A rulemaking is instituted on the California Public Utilities Commission's own motion to revise requirements for Certification of applicants for provision of local and long distance telecommunications services and Registration of providers of Federal Communications Commission licensed wireless services.
7. The issues to be considered are those set forth in the body of this order.
8. All California Public Utilities Commission regulated telecommunications corporations, including those which are Commercial Mobile Radio Service providers, are made respondents in this proceeding.
9. This rulemaking is preliminarily determined to be a quasi-legislative proceeding as that term is defined in the California Public Utilities Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure, Rule 1.3(d).
10. This proceeding is preliminarily determined not to require evidentiary hearings.
11. 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.
12. 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: Rulemaking 00-02-004. The official service list for this proceeding will be established by following the procedure in Section 8 of the Order.
13. 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 November 10, 2011, at San Francisco, California.
MICHAEL R. PEEVEY
President
TIMOTHY ALAN SIMON
MICHEL PETER FLORIO
CATHERINE J.K. SANDOVAL
MARK J. FERRON
Commissioners
ATTACHMENT A
California Public Utilities Commission
Communications Division
Proposed Requirements for CPCN Application
Administrative Requirements
Managerial Requirements
Technical Requirements
To address these three requirements, the CPUC website advises using aonther carrier's application as a template.22
California Specific Operational Issues
Please provide answers to the following questions concerning California specific operational issues:
1. Does your company have any employees at its business address? If yes, how many? If no, please explain.
2. Please provide the name and telephone number of an employee of your company that will be responsible to work with CPUC on resolving customer complaints.
3. Does your company use a virtual address as its principal place of business?
4. If you are a reseller, please provide the name, company, address, telephone number, email address for the company you are reselling services from, and the underlying facilities based carrier if different. Please explain the relationship of each company and how all traffic is routed.
Proposed Wireless Registration Application
The Commission now requires Commercial Mobile Radio Service providers who did not hold a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity prior to August 10, 1994, and who intend to offer intrastate wireless telecommunications services within California, to file a Wireless Identification Registration containing the following information concurrent with undertaking such service. This information must describe type of service to be offered (e.g. facilities based or resale), and be signed by at least one officer of the company.
1. The legal name of the business offering such service.
2. Any fictitious or other names under which such service will be offered.
3. The applicant's Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Federal Registration Number (FRN) and Universal Licensing System (ULS) wireless license call sign if facilities based registration is sought.
4. The local business address for the utility, if any.
5. The home office business address if different than the local business address.
6. The name and address of the designated agent for service of process.
7. Name, title, mailing address, e-mail address, and telephone number of the person to be contacted regarding the reported information.
8. The identity of the directors and principal officers of the business.
9. Names of all affiliated companies and their relationship, indicating if the affiliate is a regulated public utility.
10. Telephone numbers to which service or other customer complaints should be directed.
11. Contact name, telephone number, email address of the underlying facilities based carrier providing resold service.
PLEASE SEND THIS INFORMATION ALONG WITH A COPY OF THE WIRELESS RESALE AGREEMENT TO:
The information should be filed with the Communications Division. Service can be commenced upon receiving the WIR number from the CPUC. You should receive a WIR number within a few days after the Commission has reviewed and approved the registration information and the information provided is satisfactory.
Within 30 days of a change in the status of any of the information items listed above, the carrier shall notify the Communications Division of such change in writing at:
http://delaps1.cpuc.ca.gov/pls/public_cpuc/f?p=102:1:1246267722139297
(END OF ATTACHMENT A)
22 Applicant's application will include a request for certification in one of several different areas. You may order a sample application for the type of service authority the application is interested in providing. You can search the Daily Calendar under "New Filings" to find an application from another carrier with service type similar to yours.
