FCC OKs Birch Buy of Sage Telecom, Broadvox-CLEC Transfer to Onvoy
The FCC Wireline Bureau approved Birch Communications' proposed buy of Sage Telecom Communications, said a bureau public notice Monday in docket 15-139. Both companies are CLECs, with Birch offering or certified to offer telecom or data services to residential and…
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business customers in all 50 states and D.C., and Sage offering telecom or data services to residential and business customers in Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas and Wisconsin, a previous public notice said (see 1506220025). Birch would obtain certain Sage "customer accounts and receivables, certain customer agreements and contracts, certain vendor agreements and contracts, certain equipment and certain intellectual property," that PN said. The bureau also approved an application in docket 15-138 to transfer control of Broadvox-CLEC to Onvoy, said Monday's PN.