CT CLEC license bonds.
$750. Five minutes.
Connecticut conditions a CLEC certificate of public convenience and necessity on a $25,000 surety bond filed with PURA, under CGS 16-247g — ours is $750 flat, which is 3% of the bond amount. The application is five minutes.
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Three steps. One sitting.
License bonds are the simplest thing in surety. Here's the entire process:
Apply online
Business details and an effective date. That's the application — no financials, no credit check section, no follow-up scavenger hunt.
Pay & e-sign
License bonds like this are among the thousands of bond types that issue right after purchase. At most, 1–2 business days.
File with PURA
Your executed bond arrives by email, ready to file with your CLEC application or to satisfy a PURA bond condition on your certificate. Wet-ink original mailed on request.
The whole pricing page.
$25,000 bond × 3% = $750, one-time per term. Fixed amount, fixed price, multi-year if you want it.
What it is and who needs it.
What the bond actually guarantees
A competitive local exchange company (CLEC) competes with the incumbent phone company to provide local telecommunications service. Connecticut's Public Utilities Regulatory Authority (PURA) issues a CLEC a certificate of public convenience and necessity under CGS 16-247g, and conditions it on a surety bond.
The bond is a consumer-protection guarantee — it stands behind the deposits and advance payments a CLEC collects from customers, so that if the CLEC fails or violates its obligations, customers and the state have a financial backstop. PURA set the amount at $25,000, having reduced it from $50,000 in 2004 once it saw even small CLECs could comply.
It is not insurance for you — if the surety pays a claim, you repay the surety. The bond must stay active for the life of your certificate, so we track it and notify you 60 and 30 days out, keeping your $25,000 filing continuous.
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Five minutes. The whole thing.
These are the actual issuing fields — no credit check section, because this bond doesn't have one.
Start the application →Common questions.
If yours isn't here, the bond team can usually answer within the hour.
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Finish your PURA filing today.
$750 flat, five-minute application, bond often issued in the same sitting. Free until issued.