"I Don't Care" and "It Doesn't Matter" could become your long-distance service _ if you aren't the decisive type.

Those are the names Texas phone company KTNT Communications hopes to use to provide long distance to Floridians who can't decide what provider to ask for. Say "I Don't Care" or "It Doesn't Matter" when asked to choose a long-distance company and that's exactly the company you could end up with.

That controversial plan by KTNT Communications got deferred at the Florida Public Service Commission last year when KTNT requested to use the names and offer long-distance service in the state.

KTNT then withdrew its request. Now the Texas company has applied once again to use the unusual, and some say deceptive, business names.

Despite objections from the attorney general and the Office of Public Counsel, the PSC's staff has recommended approving the names and service.

Final approval could come as early as Tuesday when KTNT's request is scheduled to be debated by the agency's five commissioners.

The company mainly provides long-distance service to people at pay phones or other places when they need to use an operator. For example, when someone at a pay phone asks the operator to make a toll call, and the operator asks which long-distance company to use, and the caller says "I don't care" or "It doesn't matter" the caller would likely end up using KTNT.

"The names in question and KTNT's use of them are controversial, but the record does not indicate that they are necessarily deceptive in practice," the PSC's staff wrote in its recommendation.

"We're dead set against it," Charlie Beck of the Office of Public Counsel said. "It is wrong, deceptive and unfair to customers."

A PSC spokesman says the agency's staff may think it has no choice. "My take on it is that legal staff and communications staff believe that they have no option but to recommend to grant a certificate to this company under these names," said PSC spokesman Kevin Bloom. "It appears the staff assigned to this believe the company met all legal requirements for obtaining a [long-distance) certificate."

KTNT, started in 1995, told the commission it had $1 million in revenues in 1997.