Order

              STATE OF ILLINOIS
ILLINOIS COMMERCE COMMISSION
Metro Communications Company, Inc.
Application for a Certificate of Local and Interexchange Authority to Operate as a Reseller and Facilities-Based Carrier of Telecommunications Services in the State of Illinois.
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10-0503
ORDER
By the Commission:
On August 17, 2010, Metro Communications Company, Inc. (“Applicant” or "Metro") filed a Petition with the Illinois Commerce Commission (“Commission”) for a Certificate of Service Authority authorizing Applicant to provide resold and facilities-based local exchange and interexchange telecommunications services throughout the State of Illinois pursuant to Section 13-403, 13-404 and 13-405 of the Public Utilities Act (“Act”).
Applicant requests waivers of Part 710 and Section 735.180 of Part 735 of Title 83 of the Illinois Administration Code as they relate to local exchange telecommunications services and waivers of Part 710 and Part 735 in its entirety as they relate to interexchange telecommunications services. Part 710 is entitled “Uniform System of Accounts for Telecommunications Carriers” and Part 735 is entitled “Procedures Governing the Establishment of Credit, Billing Deposits, Termination of Service and Issuance of Telephone Directories for Local Exchange Telecommunications Carriers in the State of Illinois.” Section 735.180 concerns the provisioning of telephone directories by local exchange carriers.
Applicant in addition requests waiver of Section 725.500(o), which requires that call boxes be installed on a local exchange carrier's switch in order to allow a Public Safety Answer Position ("PSAP") employee to field 911 calls from that switch in the event of a trunking problem between the central office and the PSAP. This requirement is appropriate when applied to incumbent local exchange carries who have switching equipment installed in virtually all of their central offices. It would be technically infeasible for a PSAP employee to field calls from Applicant's switch in the event of a trunking problem between Applicant and the tandem through which Applicant will route 911 calls. Therefore, Applicant requests exemption from complying with this requirement.
Pursuant to due notice, a hearing was held in this matter by a duly authorized Administrative Law Judge of the Commission at its offices in Springfield, Illinois on