Source: FCC 214 Applications
Creative Interconnect Communications, LLC and Utility Telephone, Inc. filed an application pursuant to section 63.03 of the Commission’s rules to transfer Creative Interconnect’s telecommunications assets, including its customer base, to Utility Telephone.
Creative Interconnect, a California limited liability company, provides local exchange, exchange access, dedicated private line, and domestic interexchange telecommunications services to commercial customers in California. Creative Interconnect also provides interconnected VoIP, voice mail, and conferencing services.
Utility Telephone, a California corporation, provides facilities-based local exchange, exchange access, and domestic interexchange telephone services in California and Nevada. Utility Telephone holds an eighty percent interest in Call America, Inc. Call America provides local exchange and domestic interexchange telephone service to small and medium size business customers. The following U.S. individual and entity directly hold ten percent or greater ownership or control interests in Utility Telephone, Inc.: Jason Mills (54 percent) and the John K. and Dianne B. La Rue Revocable Trust (46 percent). The following individuals are the trustees of, and hold 100% of the beneficial interests in, the John K. and Dianne B. La Rue Revocable Trust: John K. La Rue and Dianne B. LaRue. No other individual or entity holds an interest in Utility Telephone.
Creative Interconnect’s owners wish to redeploy their capital into other ventures or investments and, therefore, have entered into an agreement to sell Creative Interconnect’s telecommunications assets, including its customer base, to Utility Telephone. Utility Telephone views the opportunity to acquire Creative Interconnect’s assets as a good fit with its existing operations. Applicants state that following consummation of the proposed transaction, Utility Telephone will provide service to the transferred customers under the same rates, terms, and conditions they received from Creative Interconnect.
Thursday, March 1, 2012 at 8:21AM 