BEFORE THE WASHINGTON UTILITIES AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION

In the Matter of the Application of )
      ) DOCKET UT-971036
CALL PLUS, INC.,    )
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for an Order Authorizing Registration ) ORDER AMENDING
as a Telecommunications Company ) REGISTRATION
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BACKGROUND

  On June 19, 1997, Call Plus, Inc., (Call Plus or Company) filed with the 
Commission, in Docket UT-971036, an application for registration as a 
telecommunications company pursuant to RCW 80.36.350.  The Company proposed to 
offer resold direct-dialed long distance, inbound 800/888, travel card, and 
prepaid calling card services to the public.

  The application came before the Commission at its regularly scheduled open 
public meeting of July 9, 1997.  At that meeting, the Commission authorized the 
registration of Call Plus, and entered its order Authorizing Registration.  In 
that order, the Commission required that the Company, prior to the effective 
date of its initial tariff, “submit to the Commission a bond arrangement 
identical to the document filed as amended Exhibit F [to its application for 
registration].”  The bond was required by the Commission to protect customers 
of the Company purchasing prepaid calling card services.

  On August 20, 1998, Call Plus filed with the Commission a price list for its 
telecommunications services offered to the public, replacing its Tariff WN 
U-1.  The Company indicated that its “new price list does not include any terms 
for the provision of pre-paid calling card service, therefore, no bond is 
required for Call Plus, Inc.

MEMORANDUM

  On November 10, 1998, Call Plus notified the Commission that it does not 
intend to offer debit calling card services to the public in this state as 
provided in the Commission’s order authorizing registration.  The Company 
requested that the November 10, 1998 letter be treated as a petition to amend 
its registration to remove the provision of debit calling card services from 
its authority to offer telecommunications services to the public.  Call Plus 
acknowledged in the letter that, if at any time in the future it proposes to 
offer debit calling card services in this state, “the Company understands it 
must petition the Commission for such authority and satisfy all conditions 
imposed by the Commission for the provision of that service.”

FINDINGS

  The Commission finds it is in the public interest to amend the registration 
of Call Plus and to delete debit calling card services from those services the 
Company is authorized to provide in this state.  We therefore will amend the 
Company’s registration in this manner.

ORDER

  THE COMMISSION ORDERS That the registration of Call Plus, Inc., in this 
matter is amended to delete debit calling card services from those 
telecommunications services which the Company is authorized to provide in the 
state of Washington.
  
  DATED at Olympia, Washington, and effective this 23rd day of
December 1998.

  WASHINGTON UTILITIES AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION



      CAROLE J. WASHBURN, Secretary