2. Background
On December 12, 2010, American Broadband, Inc. (ABi or Applicant), filed an application for a certificate of public convenience and necessity (CPCN) to provide limited facilities-based and resold competitive local exchange and interexchange telecommunications services in all the service territories of Pacific Bell Telephone Company d/b/a AT&T California (AT&T), Verizon California Inc. (Verizon), SureWest Telephone (SureWest), Citizens Telecommunications Company of California, Inc., d/b/a Frontier Communications Company of California (Frontier), throughout California.
ABi seeks authority to offer resold competitive local carrier services to business customers throughout the state of California. ABi plans to facilitate the availability of broadband and related services, data private line, data network services, managed virtual private network configurations and backhaul/transport connectivity.1 ABi intends to provide its services using the facilities and services of other carriers as well as its own equipment installed in or on existing structures.2
Applicant's legal name is American Broadband, Inc. Applicant is a Delaware corporation. Its principal place of business is located at 1321 Connellsville Road, Lemont Furnace, PA 15456.
1 Application (A.) 10-12-011 at 2-3.
2 Id. at 3.
