ALJ/RWC/avs Date of Issuance 12/8/2011
Decision 11-12-014 December 1, 2011
BEFORE THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
Application of California Broadband Cooperative, Inc. for Authority to Operate as a Competitive Provider of Full Facilities-Based and Resold Local Exchange and Interexchange Telecommunications Service within the State of California. |
Application 11-09-010 (Filed September 16, 2011) |
DECISION GRANTING CALIFORNIA BROADBAND COOPERATIVE, INC. A CERTIFICATE OF PUBLIC CONVENIENCE AND NECESSITY IN ORDER TO PROVIDE FULL FACILITIES-BASED AND RESOLD LOCAL EXCHANGE AND INTEREXCHANGE TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES
1. Summary
California Broadband Cooperative, Inc. (CBC) filed an application for a certificate of public convenience and necessity (CPCN) for authority to operate as a competitive provider of full facilities-based and resold competitive local exchange and nondominant interexchange telecommunication services within the State of California. Specifically, CBC requested authority to operate as a full facilities-based local exchange carrier in the territories currently served by Pacific Bell Telephone Company dba AT&T California, Verizon California Inc., SureWest Telephone (formerly Roseville Telephone Company), and Frontier Communications of California and Citizens Long Distance (collectively "Frontier Communications")1 and as a non-dominant interexchange carrier in the entire State of California.
By this decision, we grant a CPCN to CBC to provide full facilities-based and resold local exchange and interexchange telecommunication services on the terms and conditions set forth in the ordering paragraphs.
1 CBC identified Frontier Communications of California and Citizens Long Distance as the d/b/a/s of Frontier Communications of the West Coast Inc., Frontier Communications of the Southwest, Inc., Citizens Telecommunications Co. of Ca., and Frontier Communications of America, Inc. A review of the Frontier utilities registered with the Commission, however, identifies the Frontier entities in California as the following: Citizens Telecommunications Company of Ca., Inc., d/b/a Frontier Communications of California; Frontier Communications West Coast Inc.; Frontier Communications of the Southwest Inc.; Frontier Communications Online and Long Distance Inc.; and Frontier Communications Company of America. We refer herein to these entities as "Frontier Communications."
