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applicant's qualifications. Any franchise issued is simply required to reflect that the franchisee's qualifications have been considered and approved after a public hearing. Municipalities across the country generally review a cable franchise applicant's financial, technical and legal qualifications. In the 621 Order, the FCC indicated that where a local exchange telephone company that has received the required telephone authority from the relevant state agency is seeking a cable franchise, municipalities should not spend a significant effort evaluating the fitness of such applicant to access public rights-of-way to provide cable service.20 CenturyLink's affiliate has received a certificate of public convenience and necessity from the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission. No challenge to CenturyLink's qualifications was raised by Comcast or any other party. A summary of the company's qualifications follows: Leal CenturyLink is authorized to do business in the state of Minnesota.21 CenturyLink represents that it will make all appropriate filings and preparations prior to offering cable service. Technical CenturyLink's application indicates that its affiliate, Qwest Corporation d/b/a CenturyLink, is certificated by the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission to provide telephone service, and that such company does provide telephone service in the member cities. The application describes CenturyLink's technical plans for providing video over that telephone infrastructure. The application, Ex. D, represents that CenturyLink or its affiliates are authorized to operate cable systems in several local or statewide markets, and we are aware that since filing of the application CenturyLink has obtained dozens of local franchises in this metropolitan market. The application identifies an experienced management team for CenturyLink's cable operations, and the state-of-the-art IPTV-based delivery platform that will be utilized. Financial CenturyLink and its affiliates employ 3,000 people in Minnesota. CenturyLink's parent, CenturyLink, Inc., is a large publicly-traded telecommunications company. The application refers to the most recent 10-K. This and other SEC filings are publicly available on-line. The application indicates that the company had operating revenues in excess of$18B for the fiscal year ended 2013. The application further represents that CenturyLink will not require any unique funding sources or borrowing to deploy its cable service. Additionally, the franchise will require CenturyLink to: 10 See,621 Order at¶23. u A summary of CenturyLink's filings with the Minnesota Secretary of State can be viewed at: https://mblsportal.sos.state.mn.usBusiness/SearchDetails?filingGuid=6c l 5b4Oa-a5d4-e011-a886-001 ecWfe7f. 7 486014v1 QU210-6