TRP/hkr 4/1/2005

BEFORE THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

Order Instituting Rulemaking on the Commission's Own Motion into Competition for Local Exchange Service.	Rulemaking 95-04-043 (Filed April 26, 1995)
Order Instituting Investigation on the Commission's Own Motion into Competition for Local Exchange Service.	Investigation 95-04-044 (Filed April 26, 1995)

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGE'S RULING
SETTING PUBLIC MEETINGS
REGARDING 310 AREA CODE CHANGE PLANS

This ruling is issued to provide notice regarding public meetings that are being scheduled to provide members of the public an opportunity to appear and be heard concerning pending proposals for creating a new area code in the region that is currently assigned the 310 area code. These public meetings are being scheduled in different parts of the 310 area code region in anticipation of Commission consideration of the proposal recently filed by a group of telecommunications carriers to replace the currently adopted "back-up" plan for a geographic split of the 310 area code and to substitute a "triggered" overlay.¹

The public meetings will be scheduled at the locations and times set forth below, and will provide a presentation describing the elements of both the geographic split and the overlay as alternative means of creating a new area code. Members of the public will be provided an opportunity to speak. A "Local Jurisdiction" Meeting is also scheduled, as noted below, to provide an opportunity for officials and representatives of local government jurisdictions within the 310 area code region to appear and comment concerning the alternative plans for a new area code to relieve number exhaust. The locations and scheduled starting times are as follows:

Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Local Jurisdiction meeting, 10 a.m. and

Public meeting, 2 p.m.

El Segundo Council Chambers

350 Main Street, El Segundo

Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Public meeting, 6:30 p.m.

Redondo Beach Council Chamber

415 Diamond Street, Redondo Beach

Wednesday, April 27, 2005

Public meeting, 10 a.m.

Malibu Council Chamber

23815 Stuart Ranch Road, Malibu

Wednesday, April 27, 2005

Public meeting, 7 p.m.

Culver City Senior Center, Veterans Memorial Complex, Room B47

4117 Overland Avenue, Culver City

In order to provide reasonable notice to members of the public concerning the above-referenced meetings that are being scheduled, telecommunications carriers providing local exchange service and telecommunications carriers providing wireless service within the 310 area code region are hereby directed to provide written notice of the meetings by post card, to be mailed no later than ten days before the first of the scheduled meetings. The post card notice shall be sent to the carriers' local exchange and wireless customers with telephone numbers beginning with a 310 area code and shall provide the time and place of the public and local jurisdiction meetings. In addition, carriers are directed to post the time and place of the public and local jurisdiction meetings on their respective web sites by April 11, 2005.

IT IS RULED that:

1. Public meetings are hereby scheduled at the locations and starting times set forth above for the purpose of providing members of the public an opportunity to hear about and comment upon the proposal to revise the adopted back-up plan for a geographic split and to replace it with an overlay plan to create a new area code in the 310 region.

2. Telecommunications carriers providing local exchange service and telecommunications carriers providing wireless service within the 310 area code region are hereby directed to provide written notice of the meetings by post card. The post card notice shall be sent no later than ten calendar days before the first of the scheduled meetings to the carriers' local exchange and wireless customers with telephone numbers beginning with the 310 area code. The post card notice shall provide the time and place of the public and local jurisdiction meetings and shall incorporate the message text set forth in the attachment to this ruling.

3. Telecommunications carriers seeking to use text other than that appearing in the attachment to this ruling shall first submit a draft to the Commission's Public Advisor's Office for approval of the content of the post card notification to customers.

4. Telecommunications carriers are hereby directed to post the time and locations of the local jurisdiction and public meetings on their respective web sites by April 11, 2005.

Dated April 1, 2005, at San Francisco, California.

		/s/ THOMAS R. PULSIFER
		Thomas R. Pulsifer Administrative Law Judge

ATTACHMENT

Text to Be Used in Post Card Notification

The California Public Utilities Commission is holding public meetings to hear concerns about a request by a group of telecommunications carriers to replace the current back-up plan to split the 310 area code with an area code overlay.  More information about the back-up plan and the overlay are available on our website at:   [insert url]  Meetings will be:

Tues. Apr. 26 at 10 p.m. meeting for local government officials and a meeting at 2p.m., El Segundo Council Chambers, 350 Main Street, El Segundo

Tues. Apr. 26 at 6:30 p.m., Redondo Beach Council Chamber, 415 Diamond Street, Redondo Beach

Wed. Apr. 27 at 10 a.m., Malibu Council Chamber, 23815 Stuart Ranch Road, Malibu

Wed. Apr. 27 at 7 p.m., Culver City Senior Center, 4117 Overland Avenue, Culver City

If you want to comment but are unable to attend, you may e-mail or mail your comments to the CPUC Public Advisor's office at public.advisor.la@cpuc.ca.gov or CPUC Public Advisor, 340 W. 4th Street, Suite 500, Los Angeles, CA  90013

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I certify that I have by mail, and by electronic mail, to the parties for whom an electronic mail address has been provided, this day served a true copy of the original attached Administrative Law Judge's Ruling Setting Public Meetings Regarding 310 Area Code Change Plans on all parties of record in this proceeding or their attorneys of record.

Dated April 1, 2005, at San Francisco, California.

/s/ KE HUANG

Ke Huang

NOTICE

Parties should notify the Process Office, Public Utilities Commission, 505 Van Ness Avenue, Room 2000, San Francisco, CA 94102, of any change of address to ensure that they continue to receive documents. You must indicate the proceeding number on the service list on which your name appears.

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The Commission's policy is to schedule hearings (meetings, workshops, etc.) in locations that are accessible to people with disabilities. To verify that a particular location is accessible, call: Calendar Clerk (415) 703-1203.

If specialized accommodations for the disabled are needed, e.g., sign language interpreters, those making the arrangements must call the Public Advisor at (415) 703-2074, TTY 1-866-836-7825 or (415) 703-5282 at least three working days in advance of the event.

¹ See Petition of Joint Telecommunications Carriers, filed March 9, 2005, for Modification of Decision (D.) 00-09-073, to replace the geographic split with a "triggered" overlay as a back-up plan for the 310 area code.