Background
Applicant is authorized by D.99-03-019 to provide facilities-based and resold local exchange and interexchange telecommunications services in California.1
Applicant filed Application (A.) 07-11-014 on November 20, 2007, requesting authorization to discontinue the provision of local exchange and intrastate interexchange telecommunications services in 65 Northern California cities2. Notice of the application appeared in the Commission's Daily Calendar on November 28, 2008.3 On December 28, 2007, SureWest Telephone (SureWest) filed a protest urging the Commission to revoke Applicant's CPCN as a condition of granting its withdrawal of service request. AT&T California filed a response to the application, requesting to be designated the default carrier for Applicant's customers.
Applicant proposes to discontinue providing regulated local exchange and interexchange voice telecommunications to approximately 12,906 customers in the selected cities throughout Northern California. Applicant seeks to discontinue service on or before April 15, 2008.
1 The certificate of public convenience and necessity (CPCN) was originally granted to TCI Telephony Services of California, Inc. in D.96-10-064. The facilities-based CPCN was acquired from AT&T Corp. by the renamed AT&T Broadband Phone Company of California, Inc. (AT&T Broadband Phone) in the above-cited D.99-03-019. In D.02-11-025, AT&T Broadband Phone merged with Comcast Business Communications, Inc. and became Comcast Phone-CA. Comcast Phone-CA acquired additional limited facilities-based authority for the service territories of SureWest Telephone and Citizens Telephone Company (dba Frontier Communications Company of California) in D.05-12-031.
2 Alamo, Belvedere/Tiburon, Berkeley, Clayton, Cloverdale, Clyde, Colma, Concord, Corte Madera, Crockett, Cupertino, Daly City, Danville, Dublin, El Sobrante, Emeryville, Fairfax, Forest Knolls, Fremont, Geyserville, Greenbrae, Healdsburg, Hercules, Kentfield, Lafayette, Lagunitas, Larkfield, Larkspur, Livermore, Los Altos, Martinez, Mill Valley, Monte Rio, Moraga, Mountain View, Oakland, Orinda, Penngrove, Petaluma, Piedmont, Pinole, Pleasant Hill, Pleasanton, Port Costa, Richmond, Rio Nido, Rodeo, Ross, San Anselmo, San Francisco, San Jose, San Mateo, San Pablo, San Quentin, San Rafael, San Ramon, Santa Clara, Santa Rosa, Sausalito, Sunnyvale, Sunol, Tiburon, Walnut Creek, Windsor, and Woodacre.
3 Comcast Phone-CA amended its Application on November 28, 2007. The amended Application appeared in the Daily Calendar on December 4, 2007.
