PLEADING CYCLE ESTABLISHED FOR 
                      COMMENTS ON NYNEX PETITION FOR 
                     WAIVER OF SECTION 69.121 OF THE 
                      COMMISSION'S RULES TO PROVIDE 
                     CONNECTION CHARGE SUBELEMENTS TO 
                   CUSTOMERS OTHER THAN INTERCONNECTORS

                                         Released:  July 14, 1995

     On May 31, 1995, the NYNEX Telephone Companies (NYNEX) filed
a petition for
waiver of Section 69.121 of the Commission's Rules, 47 C.F.R. 
69.121, to permit
NYNEX to provide connection charge subelements to customers other
than interconnectors.
NYNEX submits that the Commission in its expanded interconnection
orders determined that
only interconnectors (a party establishing an interconnection
node in a local exchange
carrier's central office pursuant to expanded interconnection
tariffs) are entitled to order and
be billed for the cross-connection charge.  NYNEX indicates that
it has received requests
from interexchange carriers for the ability to order, and be
billed for, the cross-connect
element (an office channel termination under the NYNEX tariff) to
multiplexing nodes
established by interconnectors for both special and switched
access services.  NYNEX states
that interexchange carriers believe the waiver would simplify the
process by which circuits
are ordered and the reporting of maintenance issues to NYNEX. 
NYNEX states that it
would coordinate the interconnection of their services with the
transport services provided by
the interconnector, a function that NYNEX states is currently
performed by the
interconnector.  NYNEX would assess a discrete charge for the
additional functions that
NYNEX would assume.  

     On June 12, 1995, Teleport Communications Group, Inc.
(Teleport) filed an
opposition to the NYNEX petition for waiver.  Noting its pending
complaint against
NYNEX, Teleport Communications New York v. NYNEX Telephone
Companies, E-95-4 (filed
Dec. 20, 1994), Teleport asserts that NYNEX does not need a
waiver of the Commission's
rules to provide the alternative ordering and billing option.

     Interested parties should file comments on the petition by
July 21, 1995, and reply
comments by July 27, 1995, with the Secretary, FCC, 1919 M
Street, N.W., Washington,
D.C.  20554.  A copy should also be sent to Douglas Slotten,
Policy and Program Planning
Division, Common Carrier Bureau, FCC, Room 544, 1919 M Street,
N.W., Washington,
D.C. 20554, and to the Commission's contractor for public service
records duplication: ITS,
Inc., 2100 M Street, N.W., Suite 140, Washington, D.C.  20037. 
NYNEX's petition and
the Teleport opposition are available for inspection and copying
in the Policy and Program
Planning Division, Common Carrier Bureau, Room 544, 1919 M
Street, N.W., Washington,
D.C. 20554.  Copies also can be obtained from ITS at (202)
857-3800. 

           We will treat this proceeding as restricted for
purposes of the Commission's ex
parte rules, given the interrelationship of the petition for
waiver and the pending complaint
proceeding.  See generally 47 C.F.R.  1.1200-1.1216.  For
further information contact
Douglas Slotten, Policy and Program Planning Division of the
Common Carrier Bureau, at
(202) 418-1572. 

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