Common
Carrier Bureau Announces Ex Parte Meeting to Discuss Developing an
Industry Coalition to Address Software Flagging and Electronic Audit Tracking
Requirements of Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI), CC Docket
No. 96-115. 12/8/98
FCC Denies Schools' Petitions for Waiver of the Designation of Their Districts
as Urban Under the Commission's Rules that Partially Determine the Universal
Service Discount for which Schools are Eligible. [ Text | WordPerfect | Acrobat ] 11/19/98
The Commission proposes to steamline reporting requirements for telecommunications
carriers by proposing to consolidate and streamline up to six carrier reporting
requirements into one report. (FCC 98-233) [Wordperfect | Zip | Pdf ] 9/17/98
The Commission proposes to make telephone bills more consumer-friendly
by providing customers with information they need to make informed choices
in a competitive telecommunications marketplace and to protect themselves
against unscrupulous practices. (FCC 98-232) [Wordperfect | Text ] 9/17/98
Bureau reminds consumers that as of September 1, 1998, the transition to
expanded access codes will be complete. To make a "dial around" call, consumers
must dial an additional "10" before the access code (i.e. 10-xxx is now 10-10-xxx).
(DA 98-1736) [ WordPerfect | Text ] 8/31/98
Pleading cycle set for US West petition for forbearance from regulation
as a dominant carrier in Phoenix, Arizona. (CC Docket No. 98-157, DA 98-1712) [ WordPerfect | Text ] 8/28/98
Commission proposes forfeitures against ConQuest Operator Services Corp.
of Dublin, Ohio and Operator Communications, Inc. (OCI) of Dallas, Texas,
in the amounts of $70,033 and $83,405, respectively, for the companies' failure
to pay their assessed contributions to universal service. [ News
Release ] 8/14/98
Bureau seeks comment on the "platform" (fixed assumptions and algorithms)
to calculate the forward-looking economic cost of non-rural carriers serving
rural insular, and high cost areas. (CC Docket Nos. 96-45 and 97-160, DA
98-1587) [ WordPerfect | Acrobat | Text ] 8/7/98
Commission approves the merger of AT&T and Teleport Communications. (CC
Docket No. 98-24, FCC 98-169) [ WordPerfect | Text ] 7/23/98
Bureau announces the release of Version
2.6 of an engineering process model known as the Hybrid Cost Proxy
Model. The model is a hybrid model that represents the views of individual
Commission staff members, and should not be interpreted as an official
statement or a proposed Commission decision. 7/23/98
Bureau announces
the appointments of Yog R. Varma as Deputy Bureau Chief, Lisa M. Zaina
as Senior Counsel and Associate Bureau Chief, and Suzanne M. Tetreault
as Acting Deputy Bureau Chief. 7/22/98
Commission proposes to eliminate rules governing the issuance of franks
for interstate and foreign telegraph and telephone service by communications
common carriers. (CC Docket No. 98-119, FCC 98-152) [WordPerfect | Text ] 7/22/98
FCC Asks Federal-State Joint Board for Recommendations Regarding Universal
Service Support for Non-Rural Carriers that Serve High Cost Areas, (CC Docket
No. 96-45, FCC 98-160). [WordPerfect | Acrobat | Text ] 7/21/98
Commission adopts a rule treating the Guam Telephone Authority as an incumbent
local exchange carrier for purposes of Section 251 of the Telecommunications
Act of 1996. (CC Docket No. 97-134, FCC 98-163) [ WordPerfect | Text ] 7/17/98
Pleading cycle established for petition from Oncor Communications seeking
authority to calculate its universal service contribution on the basis of
current revenues. (CC Docket No. 96-45, DA 98-1409) [ WordPerfect | Text ] 7/16/98
Bureau seeks comment on the administration of the federal universal service
support mechanisms. (CC Docket Nos. 96-45 and 97-21, DA 98-1336) [ WordPerfect | Acrobat | Text ] 7/16/98
Commission releases rules for Accelerated Docket to adjudicate formal complaints
against common carriers. (CC Docket No. 96-238, FCC 98-154). [ WordPerfect | Text ] 7/14/98
Bureau requests
comments on application by Bellsouth for provision of long distance
service in Lousiana. 7/9/98
Commission enjoins Ameritech from marketing, promoting, and enrolling additional
customers under its "teaming" agreement with Qwest Communications Corporation
pending a final determination by the Commission of the lawfulness of the
agreement. (File No. E-98-41, FCC 98-141). [ WordPerfect | Text ] 6/30/98
FCC Reforms Universal Service Support Mechanism for Schools and Libraries
(CC Docket No. 96-45, FCC 98-120). [ WordPerfect | Acrobat | Text ] 6/23/98
Commission releases proposal to modify our accounting and cost allocation
rules for local exchange carriers as part of the biennial regulatory review.
(CC Docket No. 98-81, FCC 98-108) [ WordPerfect | Text ] 6/17/98
Bureau revises and approves the universal service contribution factors
for the third quarter of 1998. (CC Docket No. 96-45, DA 98-1130) [ WordPerfect | Text ] 6/12/98
Commission initiates a proceeding to promote the deployment of new and
advanced telecommunications services to consumers by ensuring that the FCC's
rules do not stifle innovation. (CC Docket No. 98-94, FCC 98-118) [ WordPerfect | Text | Acrobat
PDF ] 6/11/98
Procedures established for resolution of issues refered to the Commission
by District Courts hearing suits brought by AT&T against US West and Ameritech
over business arrangements with Qwest Communications. (DA 98-1109) [ WordPerfect | Text ] 6/11/98
Pleading cycle established for SBC petition seeking relief from any unbundling
or wholesale discount obligations applicable to asymmetrical digital subscriber
line facilities and services. (CC Docket No. 98-91, DA 98-1111) [ WordPerfect | Text ] 6/11/98
Bureau seeks comment on North American Numbering Council report on how
best to incorporate high volume call-in networks into the local number portability
scheme.(CC Docket No. 95-116, DA 98-1080) [ WordPerfect | Text ] 6/8/98
Commission releases Industry Analysis Division's report on Long
Distance Market Shares for the first quarter of 1998. 6/5/98
Pleading cycle established for petition requesting a declaratory ruling
that competitive local exchange carriers have the same rights with respect
to access to advanced data networks as they have for conventional telecommunications
services. (DA 98-1019, CC Docket No. 98-78) [ WordPerfect | Text ] 6/4/98
Bureau seeks comment on MCI's discussion of issues concerning the impact
of MCI's proposed merger with WorldCom on the internet in light of MCI's
proposed sale of its internet backbone business. (DA 98-1059, CC Docket No.
97-211) [ WordPerfect | Text | MCI's
discussion in PDF ] 6/4/98
Bureau establishes July 1 as the date on which incumbent local exchange
carriers must begin using the Electronic
Tariff Filing System to file tariffs and associated documents with the
Commission. (DA 98-1009) [ WordPerfect | Text ] 5/28/98
Bureau announces revised agenda for a forum on June 4 addressing combinations
of unbundled network elements. [ Public
Notice | Audio ] 5/28/98
Commission to hold en banc hearing June 8 on proposals to revise the methodology
for determining universal service support. (CC Docket Nos. 96-45 and 97-160) [ Public
Notice | Audio ] 5/28/98
Bureau clarifies the use, disclosure of, and access to, customer proprietary
network information by telecommunications carriers. (CC Docket 96-115, DA
98-971) [ WordPerfect
Format | Acrobat
Format] 5/21/98
On Thursday, June 4, the Bureau will host a public forum to discuss the
methods by which the Bell operating companies may satisfy the section 271
requirement that they provide nondiscriminatory access to unbundled network
elements in a manner that allows competing carriers to combine such elements.
(DA 98-927) [ WordPerfect
Format | Text
Format ] 5/18/98
Pleading cycle established on a petition requesting that the Commission
issue a declaratory ruling that Sprint fails to adequately disclose in its
tariff that it rounds-up its charges for interstate telephone calls to the
next full minute. (FileNo. wcb/CPD 98-30, DA 98-945) [ WordPerfect
Format | Text
Format ] 5/18/98
Bureau modifies the process for handling toll-free 888 vanity numbers that
were set aside for subscribers holding corresponding toll-free 800 numbers. [ WordPerfect | Text | Acrobat ] 5/15/98
A.
Richard Metzger, Jr. has announced that he will step down as Chief
of the Common Carrier Bureau. Kathryn
C. Brown will be named Chief of the Common Carrier Bureau effective
June 7 5/15/98
Commission adopts method of cost recovery for long-term number portability.
(CC Docket No. 95-116, FCC 98-82). [ WordPerfect | Text | Acrobat ] 5/14/98
Common Carrier Bureau Seeks Comment on Proposed Revision of 1998 Collection
Amounts for Schools and Libraries and Rural Health Care Universal Service
Support Mechanisms. [ WordPerfect | Text | Acrobat ] 5/14/98
Proposed Third Quarter 1998 Universal Service Contribution Factors Announced. [ WordPerfect | Text | Acrobat ] 5/14/98
Comment sought on how the FCC can collect sufficient information on local
competition to achieve the regulatory flexibility, pro-competition, and universal
service objectives of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. (CC Docket No.
91-141, DA 98-839) [ WordPerfect
Format | Text
Format | Acrobat
PDF format, including appendix ] 5/8/98
Pleading cycle established for Sprint petition for a declaratory ruling
that certain conduct by Ameritech violates the interLATA restriction of section
271 and the equal access and nondiscrimination obligations of section 251(g)
of the Communications Act. (CC Docket No. 98-62, DA 98-849) [ WordPerfect
Format | Text
Format ] 5/5/98
Comment sought on on certain issues relating to the creation of a federal
forward-looking economic cost mechanism, including the appropriate input
values for that mechanism and the level of the revenue benchmark. (CC Docket
Nos. 96-45 and 97-160, DA 98-848) [ WordPerfect
Format | Text
Format ] 5/4/98
Comment sought on specific questions related to assessment of presubscribed
interexchange carrier charges on public payphone lines. (wcb/CPD No. 98-34,
DA 98-845) [ WordPerfect
Format | Text
Format ] 5/4/98
Clarification of the procedures for transition from three-digit to four-digit
carrier identification codes. (CC Docket No. 92-237, DA 98-828) [ WordPerfect
Format | Text
Format ] 5/1/98
Commission revokes the operating authority of the Fletcher Companies for
engaging in "slamming" and numerous other violations of the Communications
Act and the FCC's rules. (CC Docket No. 97-144, FCC 98-76) [ WordPerfect
Format | Text
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PDF format ] 4/21/98
Comment sought on a variety of petitions concerning the Communications
Assistance for Law Enforcement Act. (CC
Docket No. 97-213, DA 98-762). 4/20/98
Commission
proposes a set of model rules by which to gauge whether new providers
of local telephone service are able to access services and functions of
incumbent local telephone companies in a manner consistent with the Telecommunications
Act of 1996. (CC Docket No. 98-56, FCC 98-72) 4/17/98
Bureau seeks comment on proposals to revise the methodology for determining
universal service support. (CC Docket Nos. 96-45 and 97-160, DA 98-715) [ WordPerfect
Format | Text
Format ] 4/16/98
The FCC has reorganized the Common Carrier Bureau's Accounting and Audits
Division by dividing its responsibilities and replacing it with two new divisions;
the Accounting Safeguards Division and the Accounting Policy Division. [ Text
Format | WordPerfect
Format ] 4/6/98
Common Carrier Bureau sets forth the material that incumbent local exchange
carriers should file to support the annual revisions to their interstate
access service rates scheduled to become effective July 1, 1998. (DA 98-546) [ Text
Format | WordPerfect
Format | Zip
File with Attachments and Appendices ] 3/25/98
Common Carrier Bureau seeks comment on SBC companies' petition for an extension
of time of the local number portability phase II implementation deadline.
(CC Docket No. 95-116, DA 98-575) [ Text
Format | WordPerfect
Format] 3/25/98
Commission stays deadline by which independent LECs providing in-region,
interstate, interexchange services on an integrated basis must comply with
the separate affiliate requirement. (CC Docket Nos. 96-61 and 96-149, DA
98-556) [ Text
Format | WordPerfect
Format | Acrobat
PDF Format ] 3/25/98
FCC authorizes the release of information obtained jointly by FCC and state
regulatory commission auditors during a Federal/State joint audit of the
property records of GTE. (FCC 98-34) [ Text
Format | WordPerfect
Format | Executive
Summary of Audit Report] 3/18/98
Common Carrier Bureau has issued a new factsheet to
answer questions consumers frequently ask about the FCC's universal service
support mechanisms. [This is a redirected link to the CIB factsheet on universal
service.] 3/18/98
Bureau sets pleading cycle for Telecommunications Resellers Association
petition requesting that incumbent local exchange carriers be required to
make voice messaging services available for resale at wholesale rates. (DA
98-520) [ Text
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Format ] 3/17/98
Common Carrier Bureau seeks comment on proposed modifications to ARMIS
reporting requirements. - ARMIS 43-05 & 43-06 (AD File No. 98-22, DA 98-483)
[ Text
Format | WordPerfect
Format ] - ARMIS 43-07 (AD File No. 98-23, DA 98-484) [ Text
Format | WordPerfect
Format ]
3/11/98
Commission seeks comment on petitions by Ameritech and US West for relief
from barriers to deployment of advanced telecommunications services. - Ameritech Petition (CC Docket No. 98-31, DA 98-470)
[ Text
Format | WordPerfect
Format ] - US West Petition (CC Docket No. 98-26, DA 98-469)
[ Text
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3/6/98
Responses to the Chairman's letter to AT&T, MCI, and Sprint requesting
information on whether the companies have been passing along to the benefit
of their customers the access charge savings resulting from orders issued
by the Commission are available for public inspection. (DA 98-448) [ Text
Format | WordPerfect
Format ] 3/4/98
Common Carrier Bureau seeks comment on petitions for extension of time
of the local number portability phase I implementation deadline. (CC Docket
No. 95-116, DA 98-449) [ Text
Format | WordPerfect
Format ] 3/4/98
North American Numbering Council provides the Commission with its report
and recommendations regarding use and assignment of carrier identification
codes. (CC Docket No. 92-237, DA 98-412) [ Text
Format | WordPerfect
Format ] 3/3/98
Pleading cycle established for proposed transfer of control of Southern
New England Telecommunications Corporation's licenses and authorizations
to SBC Communications, Incorporated. (CC Docket No. 98-25, DA 98-381) [ Text
Format | WordPerfect
Format ] 2/27/98
Common Carrier Bureau sets forth the information needed to evaluate state-developed
forward-looking economic cost studies used for calculating federal universal
service high-cost support for non-rural carriers. (CC Docket Nos. 96-45 and
97-160, DA 98-217) [ Text
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Format | PDF
Format ] 2/27/98
Commission will hold an en
banc hearing on March 6 in connection with the Report to Congress
on Universal Service (DA 98-390) 2/26/98
Common Carrier Bureau seeks comment on access tariff review plans for July
1, 1998 (CC Docket No. 98-11, DA 98-370) [ Text
Format | WordPerfect
Format ] 2/25/98
Pleading cycle established for proposed merger of AT&T Corporation and
Teleport Communications Group. (CC Docket No. 98-24, DA 98-369) [ Text
Format | WordPerfect
Format ] 2/25/98
FCC clarifies the customer privacy provisions of Telecommunications Act
of 1996 by giving customers further control over the use and disclosure of
personal information (CC Docket Nos. 96-115, 96-149). [ News
Release | Order
in Text Format | Order
in WordPerfect Format ] 2/19/98
The Accounting and Audits Division has made available non-proprietary service
quality data from the Bell Atlantic/NYNEX merger Performance
Monitoring Reports. 2/19/98
Jurisdictional Separations NPRM Reply Comments available for downloading
(CC Docket No. 80-286) 80-286 Reply Comments . 2/13/98
Commission will hold a demonstration on a new Telecommunications Relay
Service (TRS) called Speech-to-Speech Relay on Thursday, February 19, 1998. [ Text
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Common Carrier Bureau grants, with certain conditions, petitions for forbearance
from section 272 requirements as applied to Bell operating companies' E-911
service and BellSouth's reverse directory services. (CC Docket 96-149, DA
98-220) [ Text
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Version ] 2/6/98
The FCC has set the pleading cycle for comments on applications for review
by the full Commission and petition for stay pending review of the December
20, 1997 wcb letter regarding interconnection between LECs and paging
carriers. (DA 98-206) [ Text
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Version ] 2/4/98
The FCC has set a final date to file amendments to cost models in the universal
service proceeding for high cost support for non-rural LECs. (CC Docket Nos.
CC 96-45, CC 97-160, DA 98-200) [ Text
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Version ] 2/4/98
The Schools and Libraries Corporation has announced that the website on
which completed applications will be posted for competitive bidding is open.
The website address is www.slcfund.org. The website will operate every day
from 5:00 a.m. to midnight Eastern Time. (DA 98-129) [ Text
Version | WordPerfect
Version ] 1/30/98
FCC Proposes Streamlined Requirements for BOC Provision of Information
Services. [ News
Release ] 1/29/98
The Common Carrier Bureau is making itself available to discuss general
issues related to section 271 in the coming weeks. The purpose of these discussions
is to provide applicants and others with informal preliminary guidance regarding
issues arising under section 271 of the Act. (DA 98-139) [ Text
Version | WordPerfect
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FCC releases Industry Analysis Division's Telephone
Penetration by Income by State Report. The report provides information
on the number of households subscribing to telephone service classified
by income, for each state. 1/28/98
FCC seeks comment on LCI proposal titled "A 'Fast Track' Plan To Expedite
Residential Local Competition and Section 271 Entry Through Establishment
of Independent RBOC Wholesale and Retail Service Companies (CC Docket No.
98-5, DA 98-130) [ Text
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Version ] 1/26/98
Accounting for Interconnection Comments available for downloading (CC Docket
No. 97-212) 97-212 Comments . 1/26/98
FCC releases Industry Analysis Division's Telephone
Subscribership Report The report provides information on the number
of households subscribing to telephone service according to various demographic
classifications. 1/21/98
Common Carrier Bureau seeks public comment for report to Congress on Universal
Service. (CC Docket No. 96-45, DA 98-2) [ News
Release | Public
Notice ] 1/6/98
