B. Background

Edison is public utility and holds certificates of public convenience and necessity to provide both electric and telecommunications services in California. Verizon Wireless is a wireless communications carrier doing business in California and other states.

This application proposes to convert from licenses to leases, Edison's arrangements to permit Verizon Wireless to use existing communication facility sites and to use land or other property for antenna or antenna equipment attachments. Communication facility sites are parcels of land that can be used for the installation of monopoles, antennas and base transceiver systems. Attachment locations are Edison facilities such as towers, poles, buildings and other structures to which mobile telephone antennas can be attached.

Edison states it "will not lease any site or attachment unless its use by Verizon Wireless is compatible with current electric utility purposes. Nor will [Edison] lease any site or attachment that it expects to need for electric utility purposes during the term of the lease." (Application, p. 3.)