NEWSReport No. DC 95-77    ACTION IN DOCKET CASE               June 1, 1995

       COMPREHENSIVE MONITORING REPORT ON TELEPHONE SERVICE RELEASED
                          (CC DOCKET NO. 87-339)

     The Federal-State Joint Board staff has released the seventeenth in a series of reports
which are intended to assist telecommunications policymakers, and the general public, in
monitoring the impact of decisions adopted by the FCC during 1987.

     In the decisions these reports are designed to monitor, the Commission adopted the
recommendations of the Federal-State Joint Board in CC Docket No. 80-286 to increase
subscriber line charges, expand the federal lifeline assistance program, retarget the formula for
high cost assistance, and modify the common line pooling system.

     The reports present current data in each of the eight subject categories selected for
monitoring.  They are:  1)  subscribership and penetration levels;  2)  lifeline assistance plans; 
3)  high cost assistance;  4)  network usage and growth;  5)  rates;  6)  revenues, expenses and
investment;  7)  pooling;  and  8)  infrastructure and new services.

     This is an open docket which allow materials, comments and studies to be submitted at
any time.  Items that have been received since the last report are summarized in each section of
this report, in so far as they relate to that section.

     A copy of the report is available for inspection in the Industry Analysis Division
reference room, 1250 23rd Street, NW, Suite 10.  The text and tables of the report can be
downloaded from the FCC-State Link computer bulletin board [file names: MON9505A.ZIP,
MON9505B.ZIP, etc.] by calling (202) 418-0241 with a computer modem.  Access to the
bulletin board is also available through NTIS's FedWorld system at (703) 321-3339 or through
FedWorld's telnet internet node (fedworld.gov).

     Copies of the report are available for purchase from the Commission's duplicating
contractor, International Transcription Service, Inc. (ITS) at (202) 857-3800.

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     For further information contact  Alexander Belinfante at (202) 418-0944.