New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 17 - PUBLIC UTILITIES AND UTILITY SERVICES
Chapter 11 - TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Part 4 - REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS FOR RESOLD INTRASTATE LONG DISTANCE TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES AND INTRASTATE OPERATOR SERVICES
Section 17.11.4.11 - APPLICATION FOR A CERTIFICATE OF REGISTRATION TO PROVIDE INTRASTATE OPERATOR SERVICES
Universal Citation: 17 NM Admin Code 17.11.4.11
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 18, September 24, 2024
A. Any person, corporation, municipal corporation, partnership or association proposing to provide intrastate operator services in New Mexico shall first make application to the commission for a certificate of registration. Such application shall conform to the provisions of this rule.
B. Any application for a certificate of registration to provide intrastate operator services must contain the following:
(1) Financial information
detailing the applicant's financial resources that will support provision of
the resold service in a manner that ensures continued quality of
telecommunications services and safeguards consumer and public interests. This
includes the filing of:
(1) monthly balance
sheets and monthly income statements of the applicant, or any affiliated entity
of the applicant if that entity will provide the financial support for the
intrastate operator services, covering the most recent twelve-month period
available. If the company, or entity providing financial support to the
applicant, does not keep monthly financial documentation as described above,
then quarterly financial documents covering the most recent twelve-month period
shall be provided to the commission in lieu thereof;
(2) most recent audited year-end financial
statement available. If the applicant does not maintain audited year-end
financial statements, the applicant may provide an unaudited year-end financial
statement together with a notarized verification from the applicant's chief
financial officer, or person charged with financial responsibility for the
company, attesting that the financial statement provided is a true and correct
representation of the company's year-end financial position;
(3) a detailed description of what the
financial information submitted signifies in terms of the applicant's ability
to provide intrastate operator services within this state properly and
continuously. This description shall detail the applicant's current financial
position and describe the financial trend of the applicant over the last
twelve-month period and should be supported by specific references to the
financial documents which were provided in conformance with subsections (1) and
(2) above.
(2) A detailed
demonstration of the technical competence of the applicant to provide the
telecommunications services addressed in its application including a detailed
description of the qualifications and experience of the applicant's management
personnel who will oversee provision of the proposed intrastate operator
services.
(3) A detailed
description of the proposed market to be served by the applicant with reference
to both the geographic market (e.g. Albuquerque, New Mexico) and the customer
class (e.g. residential customers).
(4) A detailed description of the
telecommunications service or services the applicant proposes to
provide.
(5) The proposed tariff to
be used by the applicant detailing all rates, charges, terms and conditions,
rules and regulations governing the provision of intrastate operator
telecommunications services and the ratemaking methodology used in determining
the tariff's proposed rates.
(6) A
demonstration that the applicant is authorized to do business by the
corporations department of the commission in New Mexico and that the applicant
is in good corporate standing in New Mexico.
(7) A listing of all states in which the
applicant is authorized to provide telecommunications services and a statement
as to whether or not the applicant is in good standing with the appropriate
regulatory agency in each of those states, and a detailed explanation of why
the applicant is not in good standing in a given state, if
applicable.
(8) A listing of any
state in which the applicant has been denied certification or had its
pre-existing certification revoked, if applicable, and a detailed explanation
of why the applicant's application for authority to provide telecommunications
services in another state was rejected or its authority to provide such
services revoked, if applicable.
(9) A listing of any state in which an
investigation, formal complaint and/or enforcement proceeding against the
applicant has been initiated and a detailed description of the subject matter
of such proceeding and of the outcome, or, if still pending, the status of such
proceeding.
C. Upon the applicant's filing of a completed application for a certificate of registration, the commission will expeditiously review the application. Following such review, the commission will either:
(1) request further information from the
applicant;
(2) issue a notice of
proposed agency action; or
(3)
issue the applicant a notice of inquiry concerning the applicant's application
for a certificate of registration. Notices of inquiry regarding an application
may result in a hearing subject to the commission's notice and hearing
requirements contained in the commission's rules of procedure.
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