2. Procedural Background
On April 6, 2011 America Net, LLC (Applicant) filed Application (A.) 11-04-005 with the Commission, seeking approval of a certificate of public convenience and necessity to provide competitive non-facilities based interexchange telecommunications services throughout the state of California. Applicant is a privately-held limited liability corporation located in Los Angeles, CA.
The Commission's Consumer Protection and Safety Division (CPSD) timely filed a protest to the application on May 16, 2011. CPSD protested the application based on two allegations: 1) America Net failed to disclose certain information required in the application and 2) America Net has past violations for slamming and a possible link to a company with several slamming1 complaints on file with the Commission.
On May 17, 2011, the Commission's Chief Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) issued a notice scheduling a prehearing conference for June 15, 2011. The Applicant formally filed a Motion to Withdraw Application (Motion) on June 7, 2011. The ALJ emailed the parties cancelling the prehearing conference and limiting the time to respond to the Motion.
1 "Slamming" is the unauthorized switching of a subscriber's telephone service to another carrier and is prohibited by Public Utilities Code Section 2889.5.
