Section 5 – Company Specific Information

5.1 Local Exchanges

The obligation to provide Services in these exchanges will depend on the facilities in place to provide such Services, whether owned by the Company or leased from another Carrier. To the extent the Company provides Services in these exchanges, the local calling areas of the served exchanges conform to the local calling areas of the incumbent Local Exchange Carriers providing service to those exchanges.

The Company is authorized to provide Services in the following exchanges: (i) Southwestern Bell Telephone d/b/a AT&T Oklahoma; (ii) Valor Telecommunications of Texas, LP d/b/a Windstream Communications Southwest; (iii) Oklahoma Windstream, LLC; and (iv) Windstream Oklahoma, LLC.

5.1.1 List of Local Exchanges

Subject to legal and regulatory limitations (e.g., availability of facilities), the Company offers Eligible Telecommunication Carrier (“ETC”) supported services, such as Lifeline Services and Tribal Lifeline Services, only in specific census blocks1 located within the following local exchanges:

Braggs;
Moffett;
Muldrow;
Sallisaw;
Stigler;
Vian; and
West Uniontown.

The specific census blocks referenced in this Section 5.1.1 are specifically identified in Cookson Hills Connect LLC’s ETC Application filed on January 6, 2021, in Cause No. PUD 202100002, at Ex. A (pp 19-28).