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On March 1, 1996 BellSouth filed a petition for waiver of the Commission's Comparably Efficient Interconnection (CEI) requirements in order to offer a reverse-search capability in conjunction with its electronic white pages service. Although BellSouth applied for a CEI waiver to provide this service generally, it cited with particularity its need to provide this capability to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in order to assist it with security preparations for the Summer Olympic Games, which will be held in Atlanta, Georgia in July 1996. In this Order, we grant BellSouth a temporary limited waiver of the Computer III CEI plan and CEI equal access parameter requirements so that BellSouth can provide the reverse- search capability described in its petition to the FBI. This temporary waiver will take effect immediately and will expire on September 30, 1996. We will address the issues raised by BellSouth's petition for a general waiver in a separate order. We condition this temporary waiver on BellSouth's compliance with the Commission's Joint Cost Rules, appropriate amendment of their Cost Allocation Manuals (CAMs), and compliance with our Computer III customer proprietary network information (CPNI) requirements as they will be modified by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (1996 Act). We also grant BellSouth a waiver of Part 64.903 of the Commission's rules to allow BellSouth to provide this service immediately, without providing 60 days notice of the amendment of its CAM. II. BAC KGROUND 2. The Commission's 1980 Computer II regulatory scheme established two categories of communications services: basic services and enhanced services. The Commission defined basic services as those that provide a "pure transmission capability over a communications path that is virtually transparent in terms of its interaction with customer-supplied information." Enhanced services are defined as services that employ computer processing applications that act on the format, content, code, protocol or similar aspects of a subscriber's transmitted information, and provide the subscriber additional, different, or restructured information, or involve subscriber interaction with stored information. 3. The requirement to file a Comparably Efficient Interconnection plan (CEI plan) was first established in the Computer III proceeding, when the Commission adopted a regulatory framework through which BOCs could offer integrated enhanced and basic services, rather than offering them through a separate subsidiary. In October 1994, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit remanded portions of the Computer III proceeding to the Commission. During the pendency of the remand, and under the requirements of Computer III and the Interim Waiver Order, Bell Operating Companies (BOCs) are required to file CEI plans for each proposed enhanced service offering, or, receive a waiver of the Commission's CEI requirements if they wish to offer an enhanced service on an integrated basis and the service is not the subject of a previously-approved CEI plan. BOC CEI plans are required to demonstrate that the BOCs provide interconnection opportunities to other enhanced service providers (ESPs) on an "equal access" basis, thus making basic facilities available on an unbundled and functionally equivalent basis. These CEI plans, combined with our Joint Cost Rules and CAM requirements, are the nonstructural safeguards imposed by the Commission in lieu of structural separation, to prevent cross-subsidization and access discrimination. 4. In November 1995 we granted a waiver of our CEI plan requirements to U S West to allow it to offer a reverse-search capability in conjunction with its electronic white pages service. In that order, we determined that the reverse-search capability is an enhanced service and is subject to our CEI plan requirements. We concluded that the reverse-search capability did not qualify as an adjunct-to-basic service because its primary purpose was not to facilitate call completion. We conditioned our approval of U S West's waiver request on its compliance with our Joint Cost Rules, CAM requirements, and Computer III CPNI requirements. III. DISCUSSION A. The BellSouth Petition 5. BellSouth requests a waiver that would allow it to offer a reverse-search capability on an integrated basis with its electronic white pages service because technological constraints will not allow it to offer the capability economically on an equal access basis, in accordance with our CEI plan requirements. Currently, BellSouth offers its electronic white pages service as a tariffed basic service. This service allows customers to request the phone number of a telephone subscriber via a personal computer and modem. Customers may perform only one search at a time, and may search by name only. BellSouth proposes to offer the reverse-search capability by changing the functionalities of the current service and allowing customers to interact directly with the database currently used for the electronic white pages. The reverse-search capability would allow customers to retrieve subscriber name and address information by providing a telephone number, but would not allow customers to retrieve a subscriber name or telephone number by providing an address. 6. BellSouth asserts that, in order to comply with the CEI requirements, it would be required to create a separate interface with its existing database that could be used by all ESPs. BellSouth contends that competing directory service providers do not require interconnection with BellSouth's database in order to provide a reverse-search capability and claims that several companies already offer this service. BellSouth states that it would take one to two years and would cost at least $900,000 to develop a reverse-search capability that would meet the CEI equal access requirements. BellSouth further asserts that it would not be able to recover the costs of providing a reverse-search capability in compliance with out CEI requirements from the rates charged for this feature. As a result, BellSouth states that if it cannot offer the reverse- search capability on an integrated basis, it will not offer this capability at all. 7. BellSouth contends that the reverse-search capability should be classified as an adjunct-to-basic service under the Commission rules. It represents, however, that it is willing to provide the reverse-search capability as an enhanced service in order to speed the availability of the service to the FBI for use in its security preparations for the Summer Olympic Games. The FBI has indicated that the prompt acquisition of telephone subscriber information is essential to protect the public and law enforcement officers, and that its need for the reverse-search capability is particularly critical in light of the upcoming Olympic Games. BellSouth further represents that it is willing to comply with the conditions imposed on the grant of U S West's waiver for the provision of the reverse-search service. B. Waiver Standard 8. The Commission may waive any provision of its rules or orders if good cause is shown. A showing of good cause requires the petitioner to demonstrate special circumstances that warrant deviation from the rules or orders, and to show how such deviation would serve the public interest. The applicant must clearly demonstrate that the general rule is not in the public interest when applied to its particular case, and that the grant of the waiver will not undermine the public policy served by the rule. C. Decision 9. We grant BellSouth a temporary waiver to provide its reverse-search service throughout the BellSouth territory to the FBI, in order to allow the FBI to take security measures as they relate to the Olympic Games until September 30, 1996. Significantly, no party opposed granting BellSouth a CEI plan waiver. Moreover, the record indicates that competition already exists in the directory services market and that competing providers of these services currently offer reverse-search capabilities as part of their offerings. Thus, the record shows that access to BellSouth's offering is not necessary to allow other companies to provide competing reverse- search capabilities. In addition, no party has challenged BellSouth's assertion that compliance with the Commission's CEI requirements would delay introduction of the proposed service for several years and cause BellSouth to incur costs that would make its offering non-competitive. Finally, BellSouth's compliance with our Joint Cost Rules will protect against unlawful cross- subsidization. 10. We are persuaded that the application of our CEI plan requirements to BellSouth's provision of reverse-search capability is not in the public interest in this case because BellSouth's compliance with our requirements is not necessary to allow competing providers to offer this service, and because of the FBI's representations regarding its need for this service. 11. We conclude that BellSouth has established good cause for granting a temporary waiver. We limit this waiver to BellSouth's provision to the FBI of the reverse-search capability described in BellSouth's petition in order to allow the FBI to use this service in connection with its preparation for the Olympic Games. This waiver will be in effect from release of this Order until September 30, 1996. We condition our grant of this waiver on BellSouth's compliance with the Commission's Joint Cost Rules, modification of its CAM, and compliance with the Computer III CPNI requirements, as they will be amended by the 1996 Act. Action on the remainder of BellSouth's petition is deferred. 12. Further, we grant BellSouth a waiver of Part 64.903 of the Commission's rules insofar as it is necessary to allow BellSouth to provide the reverse-search service to the FBI immediately upon issuance of this Order. Part 64.903(b), as amended by the 1996 Act, requires carriers with annual operating revenues of $100 million or more to report changes to their CAMs which affect their cost apportionment tables and time reporting procedures 60 days before the carrier plans to implement the changes. BellSouth submitted changes to its CAM on April 1, 1996. We find that waiver of this provision is in the public interest because it will allow BellSouth to offer the reverse-search capability to the FBI immediately. V. ORDERING CLAUSES 13. IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that BellSouth's petition for a waiver of the Computer III CEI Plan and CEI equal access parameter requirements for the electronic white pages reverse- search capability IS GRANTED IN PART, as discussed herein, until September 30, 1996. 14. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Part 64.903 of the Commission's rules IS WAIVED to the extent discussed herein. Federal Communications Commission A. Richard Metzger, Jr. Deputy Chief, Common Carrier Bureau