Certification Requirements

4 Months

N/A

Certification and tariff are requird. Hearing required, local counsel is optional. Client may self-represent but may not use out-of-state counsel or non-attorney outside party.

1 Year

N/A

Certification and tariff are required. All applicants must address routing of intrastate traffic over intrastate facilities. Bond for debit card service will be required.

1 Year

N/A

Certification and tariff are required. OSP and 1+ resellers may operate while application is pending. Separate application required for operator services. Bond for debit card service will be required.

4 Months

$200.00

Certification and tariff are required. Fines and/or refunds may be required for pre-certification traffic. Operating without authority has been considered grounds for denying certification.

6 Months

$75.00

Certification required and tariff may be waived. (Quote includes tariff). Process can take as little as 11/2 Months if all financial conditions are met. Switched based resellers must have $75K in cash or cash equivalent; switchless $25K; multi-state switch-based is case by case.

3 Months

N/A

Registration, but no tariff, is required for 1+ resellers. OSPs require certification and tariffing. Debit card deregulated.

3 - 6 Months

$1,000

Certification and tariff are required. Extensive data requests and cost information required. Operator services and directory assistance not allowed.

2 Months

$750.00

Certification and tariff are required. Application requires audited financial statements. Publication in newspapers required. Bond may be required if assets are less than $250K.

N/A

N/A

Not applicable - all calling within DC is local.

4 Months

$250.00

Certification and tariff are required. Florida will find companies who carry traffic in advance of certification.

6 Months

N/A

All intra-county calls must be rated as if local and MTS 0-22 mile calls must be zero-rated. Separate applications and tariffs required for OSP/IXCs/inmate service providers.

1 Months

N/A

Certification and tariff are required. No hearing is required.

2 Weeks

N/A

Registration and tariff are required.

3 - 4 Months

N/A

Certification, tariff and prefiled testimony are required. A routine form of hearing is required. Hearing officers usually allow a hearing via telephone conference call without an attorney.

1 Week for 1+; 2-3 months for OSP

N/A

Certification, but no tariff, is required for 1+. Certification and tariff are required for OSPs. OSP applications require local counsel and mailing to extensive service list.

0 Days

N/A

Deregulated for resale unless more than half the intrastate revenue is derived for OSP traffic to aggregator locations.

4 Months

N/A

Certification and tariff are required. State has been known to require full refund for precertification revenues.

1 Month

N/A

Registration and tariff are required. Tariff is effective on 30 days notice.

1 - 3 Months

$250.00

Certification and tariff are required. Bond for debit card service will be required.

1 - 2 Months

N/A

Certification and tariff are required. Application is standardized.

2 Months

N/A

Certification and tariff are required. Staff analysis of financials is detailed and highly critical. Staff will not recommend approval of applicants with weak financials.

1 Months

$25.00 +

A certificate is no longer required, but a registration and tariff must be filed and approved. Tariff effective on 30 days notice.

0 Days

N/A

No registration or certification required for 1+ resellers. Operator service providers must register and provide rates.

4 Months

N/A

Certification and tariff are required. Data requests almost always follow Filings. Fines and/or refunds required for precertification traffice. Commission charges applicants for staff and staff attorney time (approximately $300+ per applicant.) Staff will not recommend approval of applicants with negative equity or otherwise weak financials. Bond for debit card service will be required

3 Months

N/A

Certification and tariff are required. Typically goes to hearing. Local counsel is required.

3 Months

N/A

Certification and tariff are required. No hearing is normally required, but local counsel's name is required on the application.

0 Days

N/A

Registration, but no tariff, is required.

4 Months

N/A

Certification and tariff are requird. Hearing required, local counsel is optional. Client may self-represent but may not use out-of-state counsel or non-attorney outside party.

3 Months

$200.00

Certification, but no tariff required for 1+ resellers. Certification and tariff required for OSPs. Publication required. Bond for debit card service will be required.

1 Month

N/A

Registration and tariff are required. Tariff effective on 30 days notice.

3 Days

N/A

Registration, but no tariff, required for 1+ resellers. Tariffs required for OSPs.

5 - 6 Months

$250.00

Certification and tariff are required. Detailed financial statements required.

4 Months

N/A

Certification and tariff are required.

2 Months

$250.00

Registration, but no tariff, required for switchless resellers. Switchbased carriers require certification and tariff is required as well as a hearing; allow at least six months. No stand-alone OSP can be authorized (by statute.) No certification required for debit card only.

3 - 4 Months

N/A

Certification, but no tariff, is required. Bond for debit card service is required.

2 Months

N/A

Registration and tariff only applies to switch-based reseller. Switchless resellers may file additional information to obtain release from jurisdiction. A change in technical status may require reFiling if company is granted switchless exemption. PUC does not keep a record of switchless resellers.

6 Months

N/A

Certification and tariff are required. Extensive and repeated data requests are issued. Requires audited or independent CPA reviewed financials. Requires considerable follow up and publication. Form tariff speeds up approval timeframe.

2 Months

N/A

Certification, but no tariff, is required.

3 Months

$250.00

Certification and tariff are required. Applicant may begin operating within 10 days of Filing the application.

1 Month

$250.00

Certification and tariff are required. Tariff effective on 30 days notice.

5 Months

N/A

Certification and tariff are required. Local counsel required. Publication required in approximately 5 papers. Bond for debit card service will be required. All applications go to hearing.

3 Months

$250.00

Certification and tariff are required.

2 - 3 Months

$50.00

Registration and rate sheets required.

-30 Days

N/A

Registration and rate sheets must be filed within 30 days of beginning operation.

0 Days

N/A

No certification or tariff are required of resellers. Must contribute to USF fund.

4 Months

N/A

Certificate and tariff are required. Newspaper publication required.

0 Days

N/A

No certification or tariff are required of toll resellers or OSP at this time.

1 Month

N/A

Certification and tariff are required Streamlined process required form Price List. Competitive status granted simultaneously. Bond for debit card service will be required.

4 Months

N/A

Certification and tariff are required. Publication required. Bond for debit card service - only providers.

4 Months

N/A

Registration, but no tariff, required for 1+. OSPs must register and submit a rate sheet.

0 Days

$5.00

Registration form must be submitted with rate sheets.

1 Day

$630.00

No application is required. OSP Informational tariff required and effective one day after Filing. New rules require OSP tariffs to have actual rate plans.

1 Day

$630.00

No application is required, but a tariff must be filed. Tariffs and revisions are effective on one day's notice. The FCC has ordered detariffing, but the Court has stayed the FCC's order. International and OSP tariffs were not included in detariffing order.

Less than 45 Days

$780.00

Application is streamlined and is automatically granted 35 days after publication. Tariff may be filed on one day's notice, effective after authority is granted.