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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Would you have a ballpark on the extra costs?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Mary Lou Carey [mailto:marylou@backuptelecom.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 28, 2016 11:54 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> voiceops@voiceops.org; Ryan Finnesey <ryan@finnesey.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [VoiceOps] CLEC - separate legal entity per State?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">You can have one company for all states or one for each state. The upside of having one per state would be that it limits your liability to each state. The downside is it costs
more all the way around because each CLEC would have it's own ACNA, regulatory filings, tariffs, ICAs, NPAC accounts, etc. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Mary Lou Carey<br>
BackUP Telecom Consulting<br>
<a href="mailto:Marylou@backuptelecom.com">Marylou@backuptelecom.com</a><br>
Office: 615-791-9969<br>
Cell: 615-796-1111<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">On April 27, 2016 at 9:59 PM Ryan Finnesey <<a href="mailto:ryan@finnesey.com">ryan@finnesey.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">When filling for CLEC status is it still common place to form a separate legal entity per State?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Cheers<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ryan<o:p></o:p></p>
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