FCC Form 477, March 2000 Approved by OMB 3060-xxxx Estimated Average Burden Hours Per Response: __ Hours Instructions for the Local Competition and Broadband Reporting Form (FCC Form 477) 1 PURPOSE The FCC Form 477 collects information on the deployment of broadband, local telephone and mobile telephony services from providers of these services. Data obtained from this form will be used to describe competition for local telecommunications services and deployment of broadband services. See Local Competition and Broadband Reporting, Order, FCC 00-114 (rel. March 30, 2000) for additional information about this collection. I. Who must file this form? Three types of communications service providers must file this form: · Providers of Broadband Services: Facilities-based providers of broadband services (including incumbent and competitive LECs, cable companies, fixed wireless providers, terrestrial and satellite mobile wireless providers, MMDS providers, utilities, and others) must complete and file the applicable portions of this form for each state in which they provide 250 or more "full or one-way broadband" lines (or wireless channels) or provide "full or one-way broadband" service to 250 or more end user consumers. The applicable portions of the form are: 1) the Cover Page; 2) Part I; 3) Part IV (if necessary); and Part V. Note: an entity is considered a "facilities-based broadband provider" if it provides broadband services over facilities that it owns or provisions/equips as broadband. More specifically, "facilities-based providers" include entities that provide broadband services over their own facilities, or over unbundled network elements (UNEs), special access lines, and other leased lines and wireless channels that they equip as broadband. · Providers of Local Telephone Services: Incumbent and competitive local exchange carriers (LECs) must complete and file the applicable portions of the form for each state in which they provide 10,000 or more "voice-grade equivalent lines (or wireless channels)." For purposes of this threshold, filers need only consider the number of voice-grade equivalent lines (or wireless channels) that would be reported in Line D.II-7(a) of the form. The applicable portions of the form are: 1) the Cover Page; 2) Part II; 3) Part IV (if necessary); and Part V. · Providers of Mobile Telephony Services: Facilities-based providers of mobile telephony services (see 47 C.F.R. 20.15(b)(1)) must complete and file the applicable portions of this form for each state in which they serve 10,000 or more mobile telephony subscribers. Firms providing mobile telephony services using spectrum obtained via lease or other agreement with a Band Manager must also complete the applicable portions of this form. The applicable portions of the form are: 1) the Cover Page; 2) Part III; 3) Part IV (if necessary). Note: Mobile telephony is defined as real-time, two-way switched voice service that is interconnected with the public switched network using an in-network switching facility that enables the provider to reuse frequencies and accomplish seamless handoff of subscriber calls. Important Note for All Providers about Calculating Reporting Thresholds: Reporting thresholds are calculated based collectively on all commonly-owned and commonly-controlled affiliates operating in a given state. [See 47 U.S.C.  153(1) (establishing a 10% equity interest as indicia of ownership).] That is, a provider must report for each state in which it and all affiliates collectively meet reporting thresholds. Such affiliates are, nevertheless, permitted to file forms for such states either combined or separately -- at their discretion. III. Line-by-line instructions for completing form fcc 477 A. Cover Page -- Name and Contact Information (All Filers) Line 1: Select from the drop-down menu the applicable filing status. Provide the name of the entity whose data is contained in the form. Line 2: Select the category that best describes the type of technology that you use to provide services. Choose from Cable Coaxial, Fiber, Fixed Wireless, Mobile Wireless, Reseller, Satellite, Wireline Local Exchange Carrier, or Other. Line 3: In general, you can combine operations in a state or report them separately. However, entities that are, or are affiliated with, an incumbent LEC must complete and file separate forms for their incumbent LEC and non-incumbent LEC operations. All filers should indicate whether this filing is for an incumbent LEC filing or a non-incumbent LEC filing. Line 4: You must provide a single name, such as a holding company name, so that all affiliated or commonly operated companies can be identified. See "Important Note for All Providers about Calculating Reporting Thresholds" for more information on which companies should be considered to be affiliated or commonly-controlled. The Excel 97 spreadsheet version of the form (preferred) has a drop down box with standardized names. The Lotus 123 spreadsheet version of the form has a list of standardized names. If your company's name is not in the list, enter a name in the space provided. Line 5: File a separate form for each state in which you meet the filing threshold. In this line, indicate the state for which you are filing data. For this purpose, treat the District of Colombia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands as states. Line 6: Provide a contact name for the person who prepared this filing. Line 7: Provide the telephone number and e-mail address for the contact person listed in Line 6. Line 8: File a revised form if you discover mistakes. Use Line 8 to indicate whether this filing is an original or a revised filing. Line 9: Indicate whether you request non-disclosure of some or all of the information reported in the Form 477. You may request non-disclosure if you believe that this information is privileged and confidential and that public disclosure of such information would likely cause substantial harm to the competitive position of the filer. Note that if you request non-disclosure of some or all of the data, you must also file a public version of the form with such information redacted, as explained below in Sections IV-B and IV-C of the instructions. Line 10: If you requested non-disclosure in Line 9, indicate whether the file is your complete or redacted filing. See Sections IV-B and IV-C of the instructions for information on preparing a redacted file. B. Part I: Broadband (Broadband Providers Only) INCLUDE in Part I: In this section, broadband providers report information about their full and one-way broadband lines/wireless channels (for purposes of this section "lines") in service to end-users. Full broadband lines are lines with information carrying capability in excess of 200 Kbps in both directions, simultaneously. One-way broadband lines are lines with information carrying capacity in excess of 200 Kbps in one direction (typically downstream) and less than or equal to 200 Kbps in the other direction (typically upstream). For purposes of this information collection, the information carrying capacity of a line or wireless circuit is the customer's authorized maximum usage ("speed") on that line or wireless circuit. Filers must report broadband lines that they provide over their own facilities as well as those provided over unbundled network elements (UNEs), special access lines, and other leased lines that the filer equips as broadband. EXCLUDE in Part I: broadcast cable television service and other multi-channel video programming; video-on-demand type service unless it is bundled with Internet-type access or uses Internet-type delivery protocols; and channelized services which restrict the customer to both transmitting and receiving data at 200 Kbps or less. Exclude lines that connect two locations of the same customer (not to be reported anywhere on FCC Form 477) and special access and private line services that you believe are used for exchange telephone service (to be reported in Part II-C). Where a provider does not know whether a high capacity line or wireless channel is being used as a broadband line or as a telephone service line, it should report that line in Part II-C (either Line C.II-6 or C.II.-7, as appropriate). If you provide a line to another filer who is likely to include services provided over that line in its own report (for example, because the other filer equips the line or UNE as broadband), then that line should be reported in Part II-C of your filing. Report broadband lines on Lines I-1 through I-8 based on the technology employed by the part of the line that actually connects to the customer's premises. If different technologies are used in different directions, then report the line based on the direction for which you provide the greatest bandwidth. Lines Important note about categorizing services to provide line counts: In general, a single service offering should be reported in only one part of the form by a single reporter. In categorizing lines, base your response on the portion of the line or channel that connects to the customer's premise and the type of service that is provided. Count only lines that are in service, including lines that you provide to end users and lines that you provide to companies that in turn use those lines to provide broadband or telephone service to end users. Line A.I-1: Report the number of broadband lines/wireless channels used to provide asymmetric xDSL service. Line A.I-2: Report the number of broadband lines/wireless channels provided over other traditional wireline facilities including symmetric xDSL service. Line A.I-3: Report the number of broadband lines/wireless channels provided over coaxial carrier systems (including hybrid fiber-coaxial systems). Line A.I-4: Report the number of broadband lines/wireless channels provided over optical carrier (fiber to the end user). Line A.I-5: Report the number of broadband lines/wireless channels provided over satellite. Line A.I-6: Report the number of broadband lines/wireless channels provided over terrestrial fixed wireless. Line A.I-7: Report the number of broadband lines/wireless channels provided over terrestrial mobile wireless. Line A.I-8: Report the number of broadband lines/wireless channels provided over all other technologies. Columns Note about Reporting Percentage Breakouts: Parts I, II, and III of Form 477 direct filers to provide percentages breakouts for specific line/wireless channel counts. If disaggregated counts exist for another purpose, then these must be used to calculate the requested percentage breakouts. However, filers are not expected to calculate percentages based on exhaustive counts performed solely for this task. Rather, where disaggregated counts do not exist, filers may provide good faith estimates of percentages based on the best information available to the filer. For example, if there is a pricing distinction between services provided to residential, small business and large business customers, then billing information should be used to estimate the percentage of lines provided to residential and small business customers. In the absence of such counts, however, filers should rely on studies done for other purposes, such as marketing and business plan information, demographic data, etc. A filer should conduct limited special studies only in the event that it cannot provide estimates that it reasonably expects to be accurate within plus or minus five percentage points. Column (a): Report the number of total one-way and full-broadband lines/wireless channels in service that are used to provide service for each of the lines described above (Lines A.I-1 through A.I-8). Column (b): Report the percentage of total lines from column (a) that are used by residential and small business customers (as opposed to large business, institutional, or other customers). In Part I, classify service provided to customers as residential and small business if they take broadband services normally associated with residential customers. Such lines could be classified as residential and small business based on marketing information, such as demographics associated with the geographic area where the lines are provided. Column (c): Report the percentage of broadband lines and wireless channels from column (a) that are provided over your own facilities. Count as your own facilities, those facilities that you actually owned as well as facilities that you obtained the right to use from other entities as dark fiber or satellite transponder capacity (and that you used as part of your own system). Column (d): Report the percentage of total lines from column (a) that are provided that is, billed directly to end users by the filer. End-users are residential, business, institutional and government customers who use the services for their own purposes and do not resell them to other entities. Classify lines/wireless channels as end-user lines if they are billed or marketed by your agents. For example, do not classify as end user, broadband lines/channels provided to Internet Service Providers that are incorporated into their premium Internet service options for provision to their end-user consumers. Column (e): Report the percentage of total lines from column (a) that deliver to the end user consumer greater than 200 Kbps in both directions, simultaneously. Column (f): Report the percentage of total lines from column (a) that deliver to the end-user consumer greater than 2 Mbps in both, directions simultaneously. Note that every line reported in this column would, by definition, also be reported in column (e). Thus, column (f) should not contain a greater percentage than column (e). C. Part II: Wireline and Fixed Wireless Local Telecommunications (Local Telephone Service Providers Only) INCLUDE in Part II: Report all voice-grade equivalent local exchange service lines and all lines that are used for exchange access services that you do not report in Part I. Include lines you provide using wireline as well as fixed wireless technologies. Include lines (or wireless channels) that you reported as broadband in Part I, but that your customer can switch between broadband and local exchange or exchange access service without you changing how the line (or wireless channel) is provisioned. EXCLUDE in Part II: Do not report in Part II lines not yet in service, lines used for interoffice trunking, lines that connect two locations of the same customer, company official lines, or lines that you provide as a broadband service reported in Part I. Do not report in Part II transport lines between your switching center and Internet protocol, ATM or circuit switched networks, where you already are reporting the portion of the line between the end user and your switching center, even if you multiplexed those lines and provided higher capacity lines between your switching center and those networks. Note for reporting channelized service: In Part II-A and Part II-B, providers are to report voice-grade equivalent lines. Count as one voice-grade equivalent line: traditional analog POTS lines, Centrex-CO extensions, and Centrex-CU trunks. Count lines based on how they are charged to the customer rather than how they are physically provisioned. For example, count Basic Rate (BRI) Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) lines as two voice-grade equivalent lines. Report 8 voice-grade equivalent lines if a customer buys 8 trunks that happen to be provisioned over a DS1 circuit. If a customer buys a DS1 circuit that is provided as channelized service, report 24 voice-grade equivalent lines, even if there is some indication that the customer is only using 8 of the derived lines. Lines reported in Part II, section C, however, should not be reported in voice-grade equivalents, but should reflect actual circuit counts. Note for competitive LECs providing local exchange service over hybrid fiber-coaxial cable television systems: If you cannot determine the number of lines from your records, you are permitted to report the number of subscribers. Lines Important note about categorizing services to provide line counts: see this note, above, at page 3. In Lines A.II-1 (service provided to end users) and Lines B.II-2 through B.II-3 (service provided to other carriers), report voice-grade equivalent lines (or wireless channels) used to provide voice telephone service. By "voice telephone service," we mean local exchange or exchange access services that allow end users to originate and terminate local telephone calls on the public switched network, whether used by the end user for voice telephone calls or for other types of calls carried over the public switched network (for example, lines used for facsimile equipment). Filers report voice telephone service in terms of voice-grade equivalent lines or wireless channels. Thus, a voice-grade equivalent line (or wireless channel) is a line or channel that directly connects an end user to a carrier and allows the end user to originate and terminate local telephone calls on the public switched network. Voice-grade equivalent lines include high capacity lines that are channelized to provide voice-grade service. See "Note for reporting channelized service," above, at page 5. Line A.II-1: Report total voice-grade equivalent lines/wireless channels you provided directly to end-user consumers. Include lines provided to end users by your agents or under traditional marketing arrangements. For example, include lines provided to shared tenant service providers. Line B.II-2: Report total lines/wireless channels you provided to other communications carriers under a Total Service Resale arrangement (i.e., provided pursuant to section 251(c)(4) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended). Line B.II-3: Report total lines/wireless channels you provided to other communications carriers under other resale arrangements. In Lines C.II-4 through C.II-7, report the actual number of lines billed to the customer. Note that in Lines C.II-6 and C.II-7, the customer may be either an end user or another telecommunications carrier. Do not convert high capacity lines into voice-grade equivalent counts. Include high capacity lines that would meet the definition of broadband, but that are provided to another entity who is likely to report as broadband any services provided over those lines. Line C.II-4: Report lines/wireless channels that you provided under a UNE loop arrangement, where you do not provide switching for the line. Include the high frequency portion of the loop if sold as a UNE. Line C.II-5: Report lines/wireless channels that you provided under a UNE loop arrangement, where you also provide switching for the line. Line C.II-6: Report special access lines and private lines that connect an end-user premise to a telecommunications carrier and that you do not provide as broadband. Line D.II-7: Report the total lines/wireless channels reported in Lines A.II-1, B.II-2, and B.II-3. Columns Column (a): For Lines A.II-1 (service provided to end users), Lines B.II-2 through B.II-3 (service provided to other carriers), and Line D.II-7 (total voice-grade equivalent lines in service), report voice- grade equivalent lines used to provide local exchange services. For Lines C.II-4 through C.II-7 (UNEs, special access lines, and private lines), report the number of lines or wireless channels (i.e., not the voice-grade equivalent of those lines or wireless channels) that are used for exchange access services that you do not report in Part I. Note: See note above, page 4, about reporting data on percentages. Column (b): Report percentage of column (a) used for service billed to residential and small business customers. In Part II, classify lines provided to other carriers as residential and small business if the lines are ordered in quantities of fewer than four (4) voice-grade equivalent lines, if they are ordered as services rated as residential or small business, or based on marketing information, such as demographic information associated with the geographic areas where the lines are provided. Include as residential lines that you provide to a shared tenant service provider in an apartment building. Column (c): Report percentage of lines and wireless channels in column (a) provided over your own facilities. Count as your own facilities, those facilities that you actually owned as well as facilities that you obtained the right to use from other entities as dark fiber or satellite transponder capacity (and that you used as part of your own system). Column (d): Report percentage of column (a) provided over UNE loops. Column (e): Report percentage of column (a) provided through incumbent LEC switching centers in which there is at least one collocation arrangement. In this column, incumbent LECs should estimate the percentage of their voice-grade equivalent lines and channels offered through such offices. Other reporting carriers should estimate the percentage of their voice-grade equivalent lines that are provided through use of a collocation arrangement. Thus, a CLEC providing lines on a pure resale basis would report 0% of lines offered in ILEC COLO offices, even if some of the resold lines were in offices in which some other entity had a collocation arrangement. Note: For the purposes of completing Part II, an "ILEC COLO switching center" is an ILEC switching center in which one or more competing local exchange carriers (CLECs) has an operational collocation arrangement as defined in 47 C.F.R. 51.5. A switching center is a location containing one or more switches. Do not consider separate three-digit telephone prefixes as separate switching centers. Consider a remote as a separate switching center if a competing carrier could obtain a UNE loop only at the remote switch rather than at the host switch. This definition of a switching center is different from wire center based definitions of switching centers, which include all remote switch locations as switching centers. If collocation occurs only at a remote switch, treat all lines served at the remote as being provided at a COLO switch and treat lines at the host switch as not being provided at a COLO switch. Column (f): For Line D.II-7, report percentage of column (a) carried over cable coaxial facilities used in the part of the line/wireless channel at the end user location. Column (g): For Line D.II-7, report percentage of column (a) carried over fixed wireless facilities used in the part of the line/wireless channel at the end user location. Column (h): For Line D.II-7, report percentage of column (a) carried over all other facilities, including but not limited to twisted copper pair, used in the part of the line/wireless channel at the end user location. D. Part III: Mobile Local Telephone (Mobile Telephony Providers Only) Line A. III-1: Report all mobile telephone subscribers served over your own facilities that give customers the ability to place or receive calls from the public switched telephone network. Include: satellite, cellular, and PCS telephone service & other terrestrial mobile services; and, units in service that combine voice telephone with other services. Report only mobile telephony subscribers that you serve using spectrum licenses you own or manage, and not subscribers that you serve via resale of another firm's facilities. Note: Exclude mobile services that customers cannot use to directly place calls to subscribers of ordinary telephone service, such as dispatch services and one-way or two-way paging services. Also exclude voice services that permit communications between only a narrow range of locations such as automobile units that permit drivers to communicate only with a specific road service. Column (a): Report the total number of subscribers, as described above, in the state. Count as a subscriber a mobile handset, car-phone or other activated voice unit that has a unique phone number and that can place and receive calls from the public switched network. Mobile telephony subscriber counts by state should be based on billing addresses, not area codes of telephone numbers provided to subscribers. Column (b): Report the percentage of subscribers in column (a) that you bill directly to end users (as opposed to those units in service that were provided through resellers or distributors for pre- paid service). E. Part IV: Explanations and Comments (All Filers, only if necessary) Complete Part IV if you wish to furnish any explanatory information with your data. Filers should identify the Part and Line to which their comment applies in the columns provided. F. Part V: Zip Code Listings (Broadband Providers and Local Telephone Service Providers) Line V-1: Report the 5 digit Zip Codes -- for this state -- in which you provide service to end-user locations. Column (a): If you file broadband information in Part I, you must provide a list of Zip Codes in the state in which you provide broadband service. Column (b): If you file local exchange service information in Part II, then you must provide a list of Zip Codes in the state in which you provide local exchange service. Providers of mobile telephony services need not provide this information. Note: These Zip Code lists should correspond to areas in which service is actually being used by customers, including "point Zip Codes" - Zip Code assigned to a particular customer. The list should not include authorized territory, planned build-out, location of facilities, etc. The list can be based on engineering information (such as maps showing actual service territory) or on billing information, such as the Zip Codes of actual customers. If the latter approach is selected, please review the resulting list and delete any Zip Codes which clearly are out of your service territory and which appear only because the billing address is likely different from the service address. IV. general information 1 Where and When to File 1 When to File Service providers that meet the reporting thresholds must file the FCC Form 477 semi-annually: · March 1st of each year: providers must file data as of December 31 of the preceding year. · September 1st of each year: providers must file data as of June 30 of the same year. 1 Where to File All filers must mail the Certification Statement and 3.5 inch floppy disk (containing your completed Form 477) to: Industry Analysis Division, Room, 6-A220, 445 12th St., S.W., Washington, D.C. 20554. 1 How to File 1 Preparation of Data Files You must file your local competition and broadband deployment data using the electronic version available at http://www.fcc.gov/formpage.html or by contacting International Transcription Services (ITS) at (202) 857-3800. Form 477 will change over time, so filers must obtain the latest version of this spreadsheet each filing period. The electronic version of Form 477 is provided in two formats: Excel 97 and Lotus 123 Version 5. The Excel 97 version contains drop-down boxes and some edit checks. The Lotus version should be usable in most spreadsheet programs. Once you complete a filing, rename the file in accordance with instructions provided below. If you wish to assert confidentiality for any information provided in the filing, you must provide a redacted version of the file, renamed in accordance with the instructions provided below. If you do not provide a redacted version of the file using the proper file names, you risk having confidential information released. You may not move cells, insert or delete rows, or change the validation or formatting characteristics of any cell. If the FCC cannot load your files into its databases as a result of modifications to the file, the file will be returned to you for correction and resubmission. When a filer submits multiple Form 477s, the filer may place multiple spreadsheet files on a single 3.5 inch IBM format diskette. However, filers must save each Form 477 as a separate spreadsheet file. Do not submit multiple Form 477 worksheets within a single Excel 97 workbook or as multiple levels an a single Lotus file. Each file name must adhere to the following convention: SST#Hyearname.XLS or SST#Hyearname.WK4; where: SS is the two letter post office abbreviation for the state. T is a single character representing principal filing type. Since ILEC data must be filed separately from non-ILEC data, this convention distinguishes the files. In addition, this character is used to distinguish refiled and redacted data. Use the following codes: A = original filing for non-ILEC operations B = original filing for ILEC operations C = original redacted filing for non-ILEC operations D = original redacted filing for ILEC operations E = revised filing for non-ILEC operations F = revised filing for ILEC operations G = revised redacted filing for non-ILEC operations H = revised redacted filing for ILEC operations # is a sequence number if a filer chooses to submit more than one file for a type of operations in a state. Use "1" if only one filing is made for the state. H is the half of year, use: "J" for data as of June 30 "D" for data as of December 31 Year is the last two digits of the year in which the filing is being made ("2000" = "00"). name is the common name identified on Line 4 of the Cover Page. If you use software that limits file names to 8 characters plus a three character file extension, then use a three character name abbreviation and identify that name in the Certification Statement. Example: MDA1J00Bell Atlantic.XLS 2 Additional Directions for Filing Filers must send a transmittal letter and the attached certification statement to the Industry Analysis Division, Common Carrier Bureau and to the Commission's contract copier. The Certification statement must be signed in ink by an officer of the filer or one of the legal entities whose data is included. An officer is a person who occupies a position specified in the articles of incorporation (or partnership agreement), and would typically be president, vice president for operations, vice-president for finance, comptroller, treasurer or a comparable position. If the filer is a sole proprietorship, the owner must sign the certification 2 Requesting Confidentiality Some information from the FCC Form 477 may be made publicly available. Any respondent to this form may submit a request that information on the FCC Form 477 not be made routinely available for public inspection by so indicating on Line 9 of the form and on the Certification Statement. See also 47 C.F.R. 0.457, 0.459, 1.7001(d), 43.11(c); Examination of the Current Policy Concerning the Treatment of Confidential Information Submitted to the Commission, FCC 98-184 (rel. Aug. 4, 1998). Respondents seeking confidential treatment should provide a separate diskette containing a redacted version of all files. Note that these redacted files must be given different names from the complete filings, as specified above. Redacted data should replaced with "xxxxxx" in the redacted data file. 3 Obligation to File Revisions Filers must submit a revised form if the filer discovers a significant error in the data. For counts, a difference amounting to 5 percent of the filed number must be refiled. For percentages, a difference of 5 percentage points is significant and must be refiled. Revisions should consist of a certification statement and one or more electronic files. Carriers should refile all data for a state if one or more data element must be revised. A refiled Form 477 spreadsheet should contain all appropriate data for the state, not just the corrected figures. Note that files containing revisions must be given different names from the original filings, as specified above, Section IV-B.1. 4 Compliance Service providers that are required to file the Form 477 but fail to do so may be subject to the enforcement provisions of the Communications Act and any other applicable law. V. Certification Statement FCC Form 477 Local Competition and Broadband Reporting Transmittal Letter and Certification Statement Mail to Industry Analysis Division Rm. 6-A220 445 12th St, SW Washington, D.C. 20554 This filing is an (check one) ___original filing ___revised filing Organization name as it appears in all file names: _________________________________ Number of files provided for this reporting period: _____________ Year: _________ Data as of: [Check one: June 30___; December 31 ___ ] I certify that I am an officer of _________________________________; that I have examined the information contained in the data files either attached herein or transmitted electronically and that to the best of my knowledge, information and belief, all statements of fact contained in such files are true and that said files represent an accurate statement of the affairs of the above named respondent as of the following date: _____________ If I have requested non-disclosure of some or all of the information in FCC Form 477 by so indicating on Line 9 of the form, I certify that this information is privileged and confidential and that public disclosure of such information would likely cause substantial harm to the competitive position of the respondent. PRINTED NAME: _____________________________ POSITION: ___________________________________ SIGNATURE________________________________ DATE______________________________________ Persons making willful false statements in the report form can be punished by fine or imprisonment under the Communications Act, 47 U.S.C. 220(e). CONTACT PERSON__________________________________ TELEPHONE NUMBER_______________________________ FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION VI. Disclosure, Privacy Act, Paperwork Reduction Act Notice The Privacy Act of 1974 and the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 require that when we ask you for information, we must first tell you our legal right to ask for the information, why we are asking for it, and how it will be used. We must also tell you what could happen if we do not receive it and whether your response is voluntary, required to obtain a benefit, or mandatory under the law. See Privacy Act of 1974, P.L. 93-579, December 31, 1974, 5 U.S.C.  552a (e)(3), and the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, P.L. No. 104-13, 44 U.S.C.  3501, et seq. Our legal right to ask for this information is sections 1.7000-1.7002, 20.15, 43.01, 43.11 of the Federal Communications Commission's rules require. 47 C.F.R.  1.7000-1.7002, 20.15, 43.01, 43.11. Your response is mandatory. This collection of information stems from the Commission's authority under Sections 4(i), 201, 218-220, 251-252, 303(r), 332, and 403 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C.  154(i), 201, 218-220, 251-252, 303(r), 332, and 403, and section 706 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The data in the worksheet will be used to monitor the deployment of broadband services and the development of local telephone service competition. Selected information provided in the worksheet will be made available to the public in a manner consistent with the Commission's rules and orders. We have estimated that each response to this collection of information will take, on average, __ hours. Note that many companies will file multiple responses and that this estimated average reflects the fact that many companies will be required to file only a single service count that should be readily available from internal company records. Our estimate includes the time to read the instructions, look through existing records, gather and maintain the required data, enter the data in a Form 477 spreadsheet, prepare a diskette and certification for each state, and actually file the report. If you have any comments on this estimate, or how we can improve the collection and reduce the burden it causes you, please write the Federal Communications Commission, AMD- PERM, Washington, D.C. 20554, Paperwork Reduction Project (3060-0855). We also will accept your comments via the Internet if you send them to jboley@fcc.gov. Please DO NOT SEND COMPLETED WORKSHEETS TO THIS ADDRESS. Remember -- You are not required to respond to a collection of information sponsored by the Federal government, and the government may not conduct or sponsor this collection, unless it displays a currently valid Office of Management and Budget (OMB) control number. This collection has been assigned an OMB control number of 3060-0816. The Commission is authorized under the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, to collect the personal information we request in this form. If we believe there may be a violation or potential violation of a statute or a Commission regulation, rule, or order, your filing may be referred to the Federal, state, or local agency responsible for investigating, prosecuting, enforcing, or implementing the statute, rule, regulation, or order. In certain cases, the information in your worksheet may be disclosed to the Department of Justice, court, or other adjudicative body when (a) the Commission; or (b) any employee of the Commission; or (c) the United States government, is a party to a proceeding before the body or has an interest in the proceeding. Reporting entities failing to file the worksheet in a timely fashion may be subject to penalties under the Communications Act, including Sections 502 and 503 (b).