ALJ/GEW/tcg DRAFT Agenda ID #3292
Ratesetting
4/1/04 Item 6
Decision DRAFT DECISION OF ALJ WALKER (Mailed 2/27/2004)
BEFORE THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA
In the Matter of the Application of Southern California Edison Company (U 338-E) for Authority to Lease Certain Optical Fibers to Sprint Communications Company, LP, a limited partnership organized in Delaware. |
Application 03-11-027 (Filed November 26, 2003) |
1. Summary
This decision grants Southern California Edison Company (SCE) authority under Pub. Util. Code § 851 to enter into a lease agreement and five associated leases, called "product orders," with Sprint Communications Company, LP (Sprint). The leases are for use of optical fibers within five existing SCE-owned fiber optic cable rings in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties. Sprint will use the leased fibers to expand its facilities-based telecommunications service in southern California. We also approve SCE's request to enter into additional product orders with Sprint under the master lease agreement, subject to Commission approval through the advice letter process rather than through § 851 applications. We note that SCE has agreed to a number of safeguards in these advice letter filings based on recommendations of the Commission's Office of Ratepayer Advocates (ORA), and we incorporate those safeguards in our order. This proceeding is closed.
