Kentucky Public Service Commission

Order Entered: 1. Assurance Home Phone is designated as an ETC for the entire service area of BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc. d/b/a AT&T Kentucky, a non-rural incumbent local exchange carrier. 2. During the current certification period, Assurance Home Phone shall be eligible to receive federal Universal Service Fund support for only low-income support, as provided herein. 3. Assurance Home Phone shall offer low-income universal support services to consumers in its service area. 4. Assurance Home Phone shall offer these services using its own facilities or a combination of its own facilities and resale of another carrier's services, including the services offered by another ETC. 5. Pursuant to 47 C.F.R. § 54.201(i), Assurance Home Phone shall be precluded from offering universal service support exclusively through the resale of another carrier's services. 6. Assurance Home Phone shall advertise the availability of and charges for these services using media of general distribution. 7. As provided herein, Assurance Home Phone shall file a separate petition for the extension of its ETC designation to other areas of universal service support if it desires such additional support in the future. 8. Assurance Home Phone shall annually certify all Lifeline customers in accordance with Administrative Case No. 36O 9. If Assurance Home Phone decides to seek high-cost support in the future, it shall make its extension request by separate pleading.10. A copy of this Order shall be ser