2. Background

Applicant's legal name is Pacific Lightwave, a California Corporation (Pacific Lightwave). Pacific Lightwave's principal place of business is located at 78-005 Wildcat Drive, Suite 104, Palm Desert, CA 92211.

Pacific Lightwave seeks a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity (CPCN) in order to provide full facilities-based local exchange services to residential and business customers within California, in the service territories of Pacific Bell Telephone Company d/b/a AT&T California (AT&T), Verizon California Inc. (Verizon), SureWest Telephone (SureWest), and Citizens Telecommunications Company of California Inc. d/b/a Frontier Communications of California (Citizens/Frontier). In particular, Pacific Lightwave proposes to: 1) acquire leased facilities from other providers and build wireless solutions for placement in areas where traditional development costs and/or zoning and permitting processes have made deployment prohibitively expensive or difficult; and 2) install and operate equipment to support wireless backhaul service for voice service, using existing fiber-optic cables with conversion equipment located on existing buildings and other structures. Pacific Lightwave also seeks treatment as a non-dominant carrier.