LANSING, September 27.   The Michigan Public Service Commission today 
certified thirty-seven telecommunications carriers as eligible to receive 
federal universal service funds to be expended in 2002 consistent with 
requirements of the Federal Communications Commission.  Federal universal 
funds are to be used by eligible providers for high cost, low-income 
assistance and rural healthcare funding.   Telecommunications carriers are 
eligible to receive universal service support if they offer the services 
that are supported by federal universal service support mechanisms either 
through the use of their own facilities or a combination of their own 
facilities and the resale of another carrier's services and they advertise 
the availability of such services and the charges for those services.

	Today's order certifies the following carriers as eligible to 
receive the funds:

Ace Telephone Company of MI, Inc.	Allendale Telephone
Baraga Telephone Company	        Barry County Telephone Company
Blanchard Telephone Association, Inc.	Bloomingdale Telephone Company, Inc.
Carr Telephone Company	                CenturyTel of MI, Inc.
CenturyTel Midwest-MI, Inc.	 	CenturyTel of Northern MI, Inc.
CenturyTel of Upper MI, Inc.	 	Chapin Telephone Company
Chatham Telephone Company	        Chippewa County Telephone Company
Climax Telephone Company	        Communications Corporation of MI 
Contel of the South, Inc.	        Deerfield Farmers' Telephone Company
Drenthe Telephone Company	        Frontier Communications of MI, Inc.
Hiawatha Telephone Company	        Island Telephone Company
Kaleva Telephone Company	        Lennon Telephone Company
Midway Telephone Company	        Ogden Telephone Company
Ontonagon County Telephone Company	Peninsula Telephone Company
Pigeon Telephone Company	        Sand Creek Telephone Company
Shiawassee Telephone Company	        Springport Telephone Company
Upper Peninsula Telephone Company	Waldron Telephone Company
Westphalia Telephone Company	        Winn Telephone Company
Wolverine Telephone Company 

	The certification granted in this minute action is conditioned 
upon the Commission's reservation of its right to audit all expenditures 
of these universal service funds.

	The MPSC is an agency within the Department of Consumer and Industry 
Services.


Federal Universal Service Certification Minute Action
September 27, 2001