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X4Suite 800` `  hhCqSuite 500  X4Dallas, TX 75251 hhCqWashington, D.C. 20016 Dear Ms. Massey, Ms. Abernathy, Mr. Stachiw, and Ms. St. LedgerRoty: This letter responds to your letter, dated January 30, 1997, that sets forth your concerns regarding disagreements among several local exchange carriers (LECs) and the paging companies that you represent. Among other things, you urge the Bureau to affirm that  X4section 51.703(b) of the Commission's rulesx\ yO'ԍ 47 C.F.R.  51.703(b). We note that this rule was originally stayed by the United States Court of Appeals  {O['for the Eighth Circuit, but that the court lifted the stay with respect to this rule on November 1, 1996. Iowa  {O%'Utilities Board v. FCC, No. 963321 (8th Cir., Nov. 1, 1996).x prohibits LECs from charging Commercial Mobile Radio Service (CMRS) providers, including paging companies, for the traffic that originates on the LECs' networks, or from threatening to terminate their interconnection agreements with paging companies that refuse to pay such charges.  X4The record in the Implementation of Local Competition Provisions of the  X4Telecommunications Act of 1996 proceeding contains evidence that some LECs have historically charged CMRS carriers, including paging companies, for local telecommunications  Xf4traffic that originates on the LECs' networks.Q^f {O#'ԍ Implementation of Local Competition Provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, CC Docket No.  {O#'9698, CC Docket No. 95185, First Report and Order, 11 FCC Rcd 15499, 1603739  1081, 1084 (Local  {O$'Competition Order).Q The Commission held that section 251(b)(5) of  XO4the 1934 Act, as amended by the Telecommunications Act of 1996,O {O''ԍ Telecommunications Act of 1996, Pub. L. No. 104104, 110 Stat. 56, to be codified at 47 U.S.C.  151 et  {M''seq.ĸ prohibits LECs from  X84charging CMRS carriers to terminate traffic that originates on the LECs' networks.j8l  {OU*'ԍ Local Competition Order, 11 FCC Rcd 15499, 16016  1042.j The Commission also held that "a LEC must cease charging a CMRS provider or other carrier forX!  ,,,XX3 X]!XhX terminating LECoriginated traffic and must provide that traffic to the CMRS provider or  X4other carrier without charge."D {Ob'ԍ Id., 16606  1042.D Section 51.703(b) of our rules states that "a LEC may not assess charges on any other telecommunications carrier for local telecommunications traffic  X4that originates on the LEC's network."BZ yO'ԍ 47 C.F.R.  51.703(b).B Because the 1934 Act defines the term "telecommunications carrier" to include CMRS providers, a LEC is prohibited by section 51.703(b) from assessing charges on CMRS providers "for local telecommunications traffic that originates on the LEC's network." ` `  hhCqSincerely, ` `  hhCqRegina M. Keeney ` `  hhCqChief ` `  hhCqCommon Carrier Bureau