Exit Plan

An exiting CLEC must file an application to withdraw from service and must continue to provide service until the Commission approves the application. The application must contain an exit plan, and be filed with the Commission at least 90 days in advance of the proposed date for the CLEC's discontinuance of service.

Applicant filed its application and exit plan on November 20, 2007, and amended them eight days later. It supplemented the application when requested, to be in compliance with our requirements. The Commission's Communications Division (CD) has reviewed the exit plan, and worked with Applicant to revise the plan.⁶ The revised exit plan provides for a March 10, 2008 and an April 15, 2008 "Joint Notice"⁷ to ensure Applicant's remaining customers receive adequate notice⁸ before their service is discontinued. CD has determined that Applicant's revised exit plan satisfies our requirements. Therefore, Applicant's exit plan is adequate and timely filed.

⁶ The CD was formerly named the Telecommunications Division.

⁷ The "cut-off date" is the date Comcast Phone-CA can start placing its customers on "soft dial tone." "Soft dial tone" is audibly the same as a regular one, except that there is actually no active service on the line.

⁸ The February 6, 2008 Customer Notice advised customers of the need to make a change in providers by April 15, 2008.