NOTICE OF FILING AND PUBLIC HEARING Docket No. 2025-337-C - Application of Brightspeed Fiber Connection LLC for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity and Joint Application of Brightspeed Broadband, LLC and Brightspeed Fiber Connection LLC for Transfer and Lease of Assets Why is this Notice Important? Brightspeed Fiber Connection LLC ("Brightspeed Fiber Connection") filed an application for authority to provide facilities-based and resold competing local exchange and interexchange (including exchange access) telecommunications services in South Carolina with the Public Service Commission of South Carolina ("Commission"). What is Brightspeed Fiber Connection asking the Commission to approve? Brightspeed Fiber Connection requests the Commission issue an Order: Granting Brightspeed Fiber Connection a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity to provide facilities-based and resold competing local exchange and interexchange (including exchange access) telecommunications Authorizing Brightspeed Fiber Connection to use alternative regulation for its interexchange service offerings as outlined in Commission Order 95-1734 and 96-55 in Docket No. 95-661-C, and as modified by Commission Order No. 2001-997 in Docket No. 2000-407-C. Authorizing Brightspeed Fiber Connection to use flexible regulation for its local exchange telecommunications services in accordance with procedures authorized in Order No. 98-165 in Docket No. 97-467-C. Waiving the application of certain Commission regulations pursuant to C. Code Ann. Regs. 103-601(3). Is a Joint Application included in this case? Brightspeed Broadband, LLC ("Brightspeed Broadband") and Brightspeed Fiber Connection (together, "Joint Applicants") filed a Joint Application for transfer and lease of assets: The Joint Applicants request Commission approval to complete a pro forma transfer of certain assets, including customer contracts and related telecommunications network facilities from Brightspeed Broadband to Brightspeed Fiber The Joint Applicants request Commission approval to lease back certain transferred assets from Brightspeed Fiber Connection to Brightspeed Broadband. PLEASE BE ADVISED pursuant to S.C. Code Ann. Section 58-9-280, as amended, the Commission will invoke the 120- day period allowed for consideration of this matter. The case was filed according to S.C. Code Ann. Sections 58-9-280, 58-9-585, and 58-9-310, and the rules and regulations of the Commission; and this hearing is scheduled according to S.C. Code Ann. Section 58-9-280(B) and S.C. Code Ann. Regs. 103-817. For the entire Case visit: https://dms.psc.sc.gov/Web/Dockets/Detail/119578 A hearing has been scheduled in this case to begin on Tuesday, March 31, 2026, at 11:00 a.m., before a Hearing Examiner, at the Public Service Commission, Hearing Room, 101 Executive Center Drive, Columbia, SC 29210. Intervention deadline: Wednesday, February 11, 2026 Manner of filing Intervention: Email a Petition to Intervene to contact@psc.sc.gov or mail a Petition to Intervene to 101 Executive Center Drive, Suite 100, Columbia, SC 29210. Please include your email address. You must give a copy of your Petition to Intervene to all Parties in this case. Manner to file Letters of Protest: File Public Comments or Letters of Protest by emailing contact@psc.sc.gov or mail Public Comments or Letters of Protest to 101 Executive Center Drive, Suite 100, Columbia, SC 29210. For questions regarding this filing, contact the Office of Regulatory Staff at 1-800-922-1531, the South Carolina Department of Consumer Affairs at 1-800-922-1594, Brightspeed Broadband, LLC and Brightspeed Fiber Connection LLC at 803-771-0555, or for public information, on this filing contact the Commission at 1-803-896-5100. IPL0306065 Jan 20 2026