III. Financial Qualifications

To be granted a CPCN for authority to provide facilities-based and resold local exchange service, an applicant must demonstrate that it has $100,000 cash or cash equivalent to meet the firm's start-up expenses. The applicant must also demonstrate that it has sufficient additional resources to cover all deposits required by other telecommunications carriers in order to provide service in California.³ Applicant provided a guarantee by its parent company, Noble Limited Company, L.L.C., that demonstrates that it meets the financial requirements.