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| Missing
Reports and Data for 2008: Why are 2008 ARMIS Reports 43-02,
43-03, 43-04, 43-07, 495A, and 495B missing?
Why does ARMIS Report 43-01 have only Table III data for the Large
ILECs? Why does ARMIS Report 43-08 have only four columns of Table
III data? |
As a result of several Commission
forbearance orders, significant changes in ARMIS reporting requirements
occurred:
1. In its April 24, 2008 AT&T Cost Assignment Forbearance
Order, the Commission relieved AT&T from filing ARMIS Reports
43-04, 495A, and 495B, subject to Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau)
approval of a compliance plan submitted by AT&T. In the September
6, 2008 ARMIS
Forbearance Order, the Commission extended the same
relief to Verizon and Qwest, subject to Bureau approval of compliance
plans submitted by these companies. Subsequently, on December 31,
2008, the Bureau approved
compliance plans submitted by AT&T,
Verizon, and Qwest.
2. Also, in the ARMIS
Forbearance Order, the Commission decided
to forbear from the rules requiring that carriers file ARMIS Reports
43-05 and 43-06 provided that the carriers committed to file the
data voluntarily for 24 months after September 6, 2008.
3. Filers are required to file ARMIS Report 43-08 Table III, columns
(fc), (fd), (fe), and (fi). However, in the ARMIS
Forbearance Order,
the Commission granted conditional forbearance from filing ARMIS
Report 43-07 in its entirety, and from filing the remaining tables
in ARMIS Report 43-08 (for those carriers who committed to collect
and retain data required by ARMIS Report 43-07, and the remaining
tables of ARMIS Report 43-08, for 24 months after September 6,
2008).
4. Finally, under the December 12, 2008 ARMIS
Financial Reporting Forbearance Order, the Commission decided to forbear from the requirement
that AT&T, Qwest, and Verizon file ARMIS Reports 43-01, 43-02,
43-03. However, these three carriers must continue to file pole
attachment data, formerly filed on ARMIS Report 43-01, annually
in WC Docket No. 07-204. Forbearance from ARMIS Report 43-01 was
not extended to any other ILEC.
For additional clarification, see the Carrier
Filing Requirement charts. |
| General: We
used to have an ARMIS database. How was this different from the
new EAFS database? |
The ARMIS abbreviation
is still associated with the data and reports filed by the carriers
under part 43 of the Commission's rules. The EAFS abbreviation,
however, refers to the new system that provides for electronic
filing and retrieval of that ARMIS data. |
| Missing
Residential Access Lines: For some
reason, your EAFS database will not let me retrieve historical
information for residential access lines. What is going on? |
Effective with
2002 data filed in April, 2003, the Commission restructured Table
III of the 43-08 report. Prior to this change, residential access
line data was reported as quantities of analog or digital lines.
With the change--made to reflect the current structure of these
services--residential access lines are now distributed across categories
of lifeline and non-lifeline, and this latter category is then
split into primary and non-primary sub-categories. As a result
of these changes, there is now no direct relationship between the
former and current residence access line data categories. However,
data from earlier years can still be obtained in the analog/digital
quantity format, in the form of paper reports. These are found
on the Preset
Reports menu. |
| Missing
Descriptions: In Customized Reports,
I chose year 2001 for a report, and clicked on the info button
next to the column. The info on the column I was looking for doesn't
seem to be in the info page. |
The Info links
connect to the latest descriptions of the reports, and these descriptions
may not match those for earlier years. To find info for earlier
years, download a complete
set of instructions. |
| Printing
Problems: For the ARMIS Report
43-01, I tried to print the paper report but there are several
columns missing. |
Save the file
in Excel, then position it so that all columns will print. |
| Blanks in
Output: Why are a number of cells
in output tables in the Customized Reports blank? |
The most probable
cause is that our instructions indicate that data is not applicable
("N/A") for the cell. The quickest way to verify this is to view
the corresponding paper report (under Preset Reports), wherein
such cells contain N/A entries.
Other conditions that could cause a blank to display are: the cell
contains data filed as confidential (in which case, the paper report
will contain "W/H" for Withheld data), and you are viewing the public
version of the report; in a Preset report, the carrier did not file
the particular ARMIS report for the years containing blank data;
and, carriers may (in error) simply leave cells blank when they should
have entered zeros. |
| Selecting
Multiple Items: In the Rows or
Columns menus in Customized Reports, I'm unable to select multiple
items. |
Hold down the <Ctrl> key
as you click on the selections, and they will stay selected. To
select a range of rows or columns, click on the first item and
then hold down the <Shift> key and click on the last item. |
| Some Customized
Report Data Does Not Match ASCII File or Paper Report Data or : There
appears to be a data discrepancy between the EAFS results from
the ARMIS Customized Report for the 43-08, Table II report for
1999 and the ARMIS ASCII file, for Column (cc). |
The disparity between
ASCII File or Paper Report data, and data displayed by the Customized
Report is seen in a number of ARMIS reports and is a consequence
of changes over time to the ARMIS report structure. The Customized
Report is designed to reflect current structure
(rows, columns) while the Paper Report and ASCII File display data
in a historical structure.
To accomplish this feat in the particular case cited, our data
upload program adds data reported in Column (cf) to Column (cc)
and stores the total in Column (cc). This data combination process
was required because, in 2002, we removed the distinction between
analog and digital lines by deleting Columns (cf), (cg), and (ch),
which collected digital data. To make prior year data consistent
with this change, the upload program combines the data. Thus, in
cases like these, the Customized Report output will match neither
the ASCII File nor the Paper Report data for the same year. |
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