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South Dakota Public Utilities Commission

WEEKLY FILINGS

For the Period January 17, 2008 through January 23, 2008

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TC08-003 - In the Matter of the Request by Qwest Corporation for a Waiver of a Requirement to File a Switched Access Cost Study. 

              On January 14, 2008, Qwest Corporation (Qwest) filed an application for waiver of the requirement to file a switched access cost study as required by Commission rule.  ARSD 20:10:27:07 requires a carrier's carrier to file cost data in support of its switched access service tariff no less than once every three years.  ARSD 20:10:27:02 provides that the Commission may, for good cause shown, either by its own motion or by application from a carrier's carrier, temporarily waive or suspend any rule in chapters 20:10:27 to 20:10:29, inclusive.  "Qwest requests a waiver of the cost study requirement because (1) producing such a study is costly and consumes a great deal of resources; and (2) Qwest does not intend to raise access rates at this time, although preliminary analysis indicates that a cost study would likely support higher rates than even those from the last study."

Staff Analyst: Harlan Best

Staff Attorney: Karen E. Cremer

Date Filed: 01/14/08

Intervention Deadline: 02/08/08

(At the request of Qwest, this docket

was not opened until 01/22/08).

TC08-004 -  In the Matter of the Filing for Approval of an Amendment to an Interconnection Agreement between Qwest Corporation and Iowa Wireless Services, LLC d/b/a i Wireless.

On January 14, 2008, the Commission received a filing for approval of a Single Point of Presence (SPOP) Amendment to the Interconnection Agreement between Qwest Corporation and Iowa Wireless Services, LLC d/b/a i Wireless for the State of South Dakota.  Any party wishing to comment on the Agreement may do so by filing written comments with the Commission and the parties to the Agreement no later than February 4, 2008.  Parties to the Agreement may file written responses to the comments no later than twenty days after service of the initial comments. 

Staff Attorney: Kara Semmler

Date Filed: 01/14/08

Initial Comments Due: 02/04/08

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