1 1 BEFORE THE FLORIDA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION 2 3 ............................... 4 In the Matter of 5 Investigation into telephone : DOCKET NO. 981941-TL exchange boundary issues in : 6 South Polk County (Fort Meade : area). 7 ------------------------------. Investigation into boundary : 8 issues in South Sarasota and : DOCKET NO. 981941-TL North Charlotte Counties 9 (Englewood area). 10 Request for review of proposed: DOCKET NO. 990223-TL numbering plan relief for the : 11 ...............................941 area code. 12 VOLUME 1 13 14 PROCEEDINGS: HEARING 15 BEFORE: 16 COMMISSIONER JULIA L. JOHNSON COMMISSIONER E. LEON JACOBS, JR. 17 18 DATE : Thursday, April 8, 1999 19 TIME: Commenced at 10:20 a.m. 20 PLACE : Sarasota County Administration Center County Commission Chambers, 1st Floor 21 1660 Ringling Boulevard Sarasota, Florida 22 23 REPORTED BY: JOY KELLY, CSR, RPR 24 FPSC Division of Recsrds 6r Reporting Bureau Chief, Reporting 25 FLORIDA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSIOV- 2 1 PPPEARANCES : 2 KIMBERLY D. WHEELER, Morrison 61 Foerster 3 LLP, 2000 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 4 20006-1888, appearing telephonically on behalf of 5 Lockheed Martin IMS North American Numbering Plan 6 Administrator. 7 CHARLES J. REHWINKEL, Sprint-Florida, Post 8 3ffice Box 2214, Tallahassee, Florida 32316, appearing 9 on behalf of Sprint-Florida, Incorporated. 10 KIMBERLY CASWELL, GTE Florida Incorporated, 11 Post Office Box 110, FLTC0007, Tampa, Florida 12 33601-0110, appearing on behalf of GTE Florida 13 Incorporated. 14 MARTHA YOUNG BURTON, Assistant County 15 Attorney, 18500 Murdock Circle, Port Charlotte, 16 Florida 33948-1094, appearing on behalf of Charlotte 17 County, Florida. 18 KATHLEEN F. SCHNIEDER, Assistant County 19 Attorney, 1660 Ringling Boulevard, 2nd Floor, 20 Sarasota, Florida 34236, appearing on behalf of 21 Sarasota County, Florida. 22 FRANK HEATON, Cellular One, 2100 Electronics 23 Lane, Fort Myers, Florida 33912, appearing on behalf 24 of Wireless One Network L.L.P. d/b/a Cellular One. 25 FLORIDA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION 3 1 APPEARANCES CONTINUED: 2 D. BRUCE MAY, Holland & Knight, 315 South 3 Calhoun Street, Suite 600, Tallahassee, Florida 32302, 4 appearing on behalf of Florida Cellular Service, Inc. 5 d/b/a BellSouth Mobility. 6 JAMES A. MINIX, Senior Assistant County 7 Attorney, Manatee County, Post Office Box 1000, 8 Bradenton, Florida 34206-1000, appearing on behalf of 9 Manatee County. 10 JUNE McKINNEY, Florida Public Service 11 Commission, Division of Legal Services, 2540 Shumard 12 Oak Boulevard, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-0870, 13 appearing on behalf of the Commission Staff. 14 CHARLES BECK, Associate Public Counsel, Office of 15 Public Counsel, 111 West Madison Street, Room 812, 16 Tallahassee, Florida 32399-1400, appearing on behalf of the 17 Citizens of the State of Florida 18 19 ALSO PRESENT: 20 Levent Ileri and Michael Barrett, FPSC Division of 21 Communications 22 Thelma Crump and Kevin Bloom, FPSC Division of 23 Consumer Affairs 24 25 FLORIDA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION 4 1 INDEX 2 WITNESSES - VOLUME 1 3 NAME PAGE NO. 4 PAMELA KENWORTHY 5 Direct Statement 14 6 RICHARD BROWN 7 Direct Statement 22 8 SHELL1 HAZELTINE 9 Direct Statement 25 10 BILL COY 11 Direct Statement 30 12 PAUL PHILLIPS 13 Direct Statement 35 14 HELEN BECKER 15 Direct Statement 38 16 ROB LANE 17 Direct Statement 40 18 MICHELE FRANTZ 19 Direct Statement 45 20 JILL LEAH 21 Direct Statement 46 22 BETTY WRIGHT 23 Direct Statement 48 24 SHEILA GARBADE 25 Direct Statement 51 FLORIDA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION 5 1 WITNESSES CONTINUED: 2 STAN STEPHENS 3 Direct Statement 54 4 KEN LEGLER 5 Direct Statement 59 6 DORIAN POPESCU 7 Direct Statement 60 8 JAME EWING 9 Direct Statement 65 10 J. BRIAN MURPHY 11 Direct Statement 69 12 BARBARA TISDALE 13 Direct Statement 74 14 GIOVANNA DEVENY 15 Direct Statement 75 16 GRACE AMODEO 17 Direct Statement 79 18 TAYLOR MEALS 19 Direct Statement 81 20 TIM TILTON 21 Direct Statement 83 22 GORDON GREENFIELD 23 Direct Statement 86 24 WILLIAM STRICKLAND 25 Direct Statement 89 FLORIDA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION 6 1 iVITNESSES VOLUME 1 CONTINUED: 2 3REG WANNER 3 Direct Statement 93 4 PAMELA KENWORTHY 5 Direct Statement By Witness Kenworthy 107 6 Prefiled Direct Testimony Inserted 110 Cross Examination By Mr. Minix 115 7 Cross Examination By Ms. Burton 118 Cross Examination By Ms. Schneider 12 1 8 Cross Examination By Mr. Rehwinkel 139 Cross Examination By Mr. May 146 9 Cross Examination By Mr. Heaton 152 Cross Examination By Ms. McKinney 153 10 Recross Examination By Mr. Rehwinkel 162 Examination By Ms. Wheeler 163 11 CHERYL LAUZON 12 Direct Examination By Ms. Burton 167 13 Prefiled Direct Testimony Inserted 170 Cross Examination By Mr. May 173 14 Redirect Examination By Ms. Burton 178 15 THOMAS C. FOLEY 16 Direct Examination By Mr. Rehwinkel 181 Prefiled Direct Testimony Inserted 182 17 EXHIBITS - VOLUME 1 18 NUMBER ID. ADMTD 0 19 1 Official Recognition List 98 98 20 2 Staff's Proposed Alternatives 100 100 3 PK-1 through PK-4 119 164 21 4 (Late-Filed) Three-way split 132 and implementation explanation 22 5 (Late-Filed) Previous predicted 136 exhaust date for 914 23 6 (Late-Filed) NPA Allocation 141 Plans and Assignment 24 Guidelines 7 TCF-1 and 2 182 25 FLORIDA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION 7 1 PROCEEDINGS 2 (Hearing convened at 10:20 a.m.) 3 COMMISSIONER JOHNSON: Good morning, ladies 4 and gentlemen. My name is Julia Johnson. We'll be 5 starting the customer portion of our hearing in about 6 three or five minutes. Chairman Joe Garcia will be 7 arriving later this afternoon. There was a scheduling 8 conflict and we had quite a few issues to deal with 9 early this morning at the Commission. But he's on the 10 first plane out and should be here by 12. And 11 Commissioner Leon Jacobs is also on his way. 12 For benefit of the audience, the testimony 13 that will be presented here today, we will have a 14 court reporter taking notes, and it will be 15 transmitted over the Internet throughout the state, 16 and also throughout the government facilities here in 17 Sarasota. So I did want to let you know that we will 18 begin in just a few moments. And thank you all. 19 (Brief recess taken.) 20 ----- 21 COMMISSIONER JOHNSON: Good morning, ladies 22 and gentlemen. Again, Ilm Julia Johnson. I want to 23 welcome you all here today for the customer portion of 24 our hearing. 25 If you haven't had a chance already, if you FLORIDA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION 8 1 Zould sign in, if you'd like to speak you can sign up 2 separately for that and also receive the IvSpecial 3 Report'' which goes into detail as to why we're here 4 today. And it provides quite a bit of background 5 information of the alternatives that have been 6 presented to the Commission. 7 And with that, counsel, could you please 8 read the notice. 9 MS. McKINNEY: Yes, Commissioner. By notice 10 issued March 4, 1999, this time and place was set for 11 hearing 990223-TL, request for review of proposed 12 numbering plan relief for the 941 area code. The 13 purpose of the hearing is set out in the Notice. 14 COMMISSIONER JOHNSON: Thank you. Take 15 appearances. 16 MR. BECK: My name is Charlie Beck. I'm 17 with the Office of Public Counsel in Tallahassee. 18 MS. McKINNEY: June McKinney, Commission 19 Staff . 20 COMMISSIONER JOHNSON: We have quite a few 21 representatives and attorneys from the companies that 22 are here today, I'm certain that they will be making 23 their formal appearances during the technical portions 24 of the hearing. We also have representatives from the 25 companies that can entertain any questions that you FLORIDA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION 9 1 might have during the course of this hearing. 2 For those of you who would not like to 3 provide oral comments today, but would like to provide 4 input into the Commission's process, at the back of 5 the handout there's a place that you can provide 6 written comments. If you want to fill that out today 7 and leave that with Ms. Thelma Crump, she is available 8 to take any of those comments. Or if you'd just like 9 to fill it out and later mail it into the Commission, 10 we can also receive your comments in that manner. 11 If you notice on the "Special Report'' we 12 also have our Web site and our 1-800 number so that 13 you can call us with any questions that you might have 14 on your 1-800 number, or contact us via the Internet 15 at the address stated on the format here today. 16 Let me just digress for just a moment and 17 let you -- better understand -- to help you better 18 understand why we are here today. 19 Traditionally, when there is an area code 20 issue, or there's an exhaust, we receive notice from 21 the North American Numbering Plan Administrator, and 22 the young lady that's representing them will, at the 23 appropriate time, come forward and kind of let you 24 know what their role is, how this process works; how 25 they got to where they are today. And she'll also go FLORIDA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION 10 1 over the alternatives that we're considering. 2 What happens is, the industry members will 3 get together and oftentimes they will reach a 4 consensus as to what plan should be adopted.