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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Thank you Mary Lou I will ping Carey.<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> Monday, May 2, 2016 8:44 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">No I don't do the regulatory side of things, but TMI does so you could ask them. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Carey Roesel<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 May 1, 2016 at 10:22 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"><span style="color:#1F497D">Would you have a ballpark on the extra costs?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></strong> Mary Lou Carey [<a href="mailto:marylou@backuptelecom.com">mailto:marylou@backuptelecom.com</a>]
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Sent:</span></strong> Thursday, April 28, 2016 11:54 AM<br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">To:</span></strong> <a href="mailto:voiceops@voiceops.org">
voiceops@voiceops.org</a>; Ryan Finnesey <<a href="mailto:ryan@finnesey.com">ryan@finnesey.com</a>><br>
<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Subject:</span></strong> 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. </span><o:p></o:p></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</span><o:p></o:p></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:</span><o:p></o:p></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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