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85 7th Place East, Suite 500 <br />MINNESOTA St. Paul, Minnesota 55101-2198 <br />�' DEPARTMENT OF www.commerce.state.mn.us <br />�COMMERCE 651.296.4026 FAX 651.296.1959 <br />� � An equal opportunity employer <br />December 17, 2012 <br />Burl W. Haar <br />Executive Secretary <br />Minnesota Public Utilities Commission <br />121 7�` Place East, Suite 350 <br />St. Paul, Minnesota 55101-2147 <br />RE: Coxnments of the Minnesota Department of Commerce <br />Docket No. P5542/M-12-1304 <br />Dear Dr. Haar: <br />Attached are the comments of the Minnesota Department of Comznerce in the following matter: <br />Request to amend the certificate of authozity of Tekstar Comnnunications, Tnc. to expand its <br />service area. <br />The petition was filed on November 29, 2012 by: <br />Thomas G. Bwrns <br />Olsen Thielen <br />Consultant for Tekstar Communications, Inc. <br />2675 Long Lake Road <br />St. Paul, MN 55113 <br />The Department of Commerce recommends that Tekstar Communications, Inc. be granted <br />conditional. authority to provide facilities based services in the exchanges included in the Twin <br />Cities Rate Center where Qwest dba CentuxyLink QC, Citizens Telecommunications of <br />Minnesota, Inc., and Frontier Comumunications of Minnesota, Tnc. are currently the Incumbent <br />Local Exchange Carriers (ILECs); in the exchanges of Lindstrom, Scandia Marine and Taylors <br />Fa11s where Citizens Telecommunications of Minnesota, Inc. is currently the ILEC; the <br />exchanges of Henderson, LeCenter and Montgomery where Frontier Communications of <br />Minnesota, Inc. is currently the ILEC; the exchanges of Cambridge, LeSueur, North Branch, <br />Princeton and Stillwater where Qwest dba CenturyLink QC is currently the ILEC; and the <br />exchanges of Chaska, Cokato, Hastings, Howard Lake, Norwood and Osseo where Embarq <br />Minnesota, Inc. dba CenturyLink is currently the ILEC. Before providing service in an exchange <br />requested in this petition, the Company must first receive Commission approval of an npdated <br />911 plan covezing the expanded service area, any necessary interconnection agreexnents and the <br />