2. Background
On January 26, 2011, Network Billing Systems, LLC (Network Billing or Applicant) filed an application with the California Public Utilities Commission for a certificate of public convenience and necessity (CPCN) to provide resold competitive local exchange and interexchange telecommunications service in the service territories of Pacific Bell Telephone Company, d/b/a AT&T California (AT&T) , Verizon California Inc. (Verizon), SureWest Telephone (SureWest), and Citizens Telecommunications Company of California, Inc., d/b/a Frontier Communications of California (Frontier) throughout the State of California. The Applicant is a New Jersey limited liability company with its principal address at 155 Willowbrook Boulevard, Wayne, New Jersey 07470.
The Commission previously granted Applicant a "registration license" to provide interexchange telecommunications services under the Commission's streamlined registration process in D.98-09-088.1 Applicant now seeks authority to provide specialized dedicated point to point local exchange voice telecommunications services for commercial subscribers as a competitive local carrier.2 Applicant does not plan to offer basic local service.
1 Decision (D.) 08-12-023.
2 Application (A.) 11-01-026, at 2.
