Section 10 of the Communications Act requires the Commission to forbear from applying to a telecommunications carrier any Communications Act provision or Commission regulation if certain statutory criteria are met. Under section 10(c), any telecommunications carrier or class of telecommunications carriers may file a petition with the Commission asking that it exercise this forbearance authority. If the Commission fails to act on a forbearance petition within one year (extended by three months, if necessary), the petition is "deemed granted" by operation of law. In its June 2009 Forbearance Procedures Order, the Commission adopted procedural rules to govern its consideration of forbearance petitions. Since the "complete as filed" rule took effect on April 5, 2010. All the forbearance procedural rules are now in effect.
Congress enacted section 10 in 1996. Since then, the Commission has addressed numerous forbearance petitions. The following table lists the forbearance petitions currently pending before the Commission.
| Petition | Date Filed | Docket No. | Public Notice | Comments (Replies) |
Statutory Deadline | Contact Person |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AirVoice | 12/01/10 | WC 09-197 |
01/07/11 (01/24/11) |
12/01/11 | Nicholas Degani (202) 418-7400 |
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| ReCellular | 10/13/10 | WC 09-197 |
11/19/10 (12/06/10) |
10/13/11 | Nicholas Degani (202) 418-7400 |
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| CAL Communications, Inc. | 08/06/10 | WC 09-197 |
09/20/10 (10/05/10) |
08/06/11 | Nicholas Degani (202) 418-7400 |
|
| PlatinumTel Communications | 07/02/10 | WC 09-197 |
08/12/10 (08/27/10) |
07/02/11 | Nicholas Degani (202) 418-7400 |
|
| Cricket | 06/21/10 | WC 09-197 |
07/26/10 (8/10/10) |
06/21/11 | Nicholas Degani (202) 418-7400 |
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| NTCH ETC | 03/05/10 | WC 09-197 |
04/14/10 (04/19/10) |
03/05/11 | Nicholas Degani (202) 418-7400 |
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| Qwest Corporation Phoenix MSA | 03/24/09 | WC 09-135 |
09/21/09 (10/21/09) |
06/22/10 | Denise Coca or Tim Stelzig (202) 418-1580 |
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| Denali Spectrum License Sub, LLC | 03/12/09 | WT 09-64 |
06/18/09 (07/06/09) |
06/09/10 | Scott Mackoul (202) 418-0660 |
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| Qwest 4 MSA
D.C. Circuit Remand Order |
04/27/07 | WC 07-97 |
09/21/09 (10/21/09) |
N/A | Denise Coca or Tim Stelzig (202) 418-1580 |
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| Verizon 6 MSA D.C. Circuit Remand Order |
09/06/06 | WC 06-172 |
09/21/09 (10/21/09) |
N/A | Denise Coca or Tim Stelzig (202) 418-1580 | |
| SBC IP-enabled Services (Part 1)
(Part 2) D.C. Circuit Remand Order |
02/05/04 | WC 04-29, WC 04-36 |
05/28/04 (07/14/04) |
N/A | Tim Stelzig (202) 418-1580 |
