The Commission approved the license because it determined that eVulkan possesses sufficient technical, financial and managerial resources and abilities to provide basic local telephone service to all residential and commercial customers within the geographic area of its license. The Commission concluded that competition for telephone service can be advantageous to Michigan residents and, by granting this request for a license, opportunities for competition may expand. The Commission conditioned the license on compliance with the Commission's anti-slamming procedures, its number portability provisions and number reclamation process, and failure to comply may result in revocation of the license or other penalties. The Commission also conditioned the license upon the company providing service to customers within a reasonable time, indicating that failure to do so may result in revocation of the license.
Telephone exchanges are geographic boundaries that define customer's local calling area.
Interconnection arrangements allow the companies' customers to place calls to, and receive them from, customers of other local telephone service providers. The MPSC is an agency within the Department of Consumer and Industry Services.