Applicant also requests authority to provide interexchange telecommunications service on a statewide basis. Applicant currently has authority to provide intraexchange and interexchange switched telecommunications service in U S WEST Communications, Inc., exchanges. See Order No. 97-206, docket CP 248. Applicant will operate as a reseller of telecommunications service for both intraexchange and interexchange service.
Operator services are part of switched telecommunications service.
Applicant will not directly provide operator services. The Commission served notice of the application on the Commission's telecommunications mailing list on August 12, 1998. The Commission did not receive any protests. The ALJ set forth a procedural schedule. No exceptions to the proposed order were filed.