2. Background

On June 24, 2010, BRT Company, LLC d/b/a Big River Telephone Company, LLC (BRT), (a Delaware corporation authorized to operate in California as a foreign corporation), filed an application for a certificate of public convenience and necessity (CPCN) to provide resold and limited facilities-based local exchange telecommunications services in the service territories of Pacific Bell Telephone d/b/a AT&T California (AT&T), Verizon California Inc. (Verizon), Citizens Telecommunications Company of California, Inc. (Citizens), and SureWest Communications (SureWest), and non dominant interexchange telecommunications services in California. On June 24, 2010, BRT also filed a motion for leave to file under seal its Attachments F and G to the application. Notice of Application (A.) 10-06-016 appeared on the Commission's Daily Calendar on July 2, 2010.

On August 5, 2010, the assigned Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) issued Administrative Law Judge Ruling Requiring Applicant to File a Response to Information Request Within 10 Days, to which BRT filed a response on August 17, 2010.

BRT's principal place of business is located at 24 S. Minnesota, Cape Girardeau, Missouri 63703. BRT proposes to provide services via leased local network facilities of cable TV companies it may partner with, dedicated private line transmission services for point-to-point and point-to-multipoint communications within local areas in California to and from BRT's Private Switched Network, and leased transport facilities from incumbent local exchange carriers statewide.