Wireline Competition Bureau 445 12th St., SW Washington, DC  20554 Tel (202) 418-1500 Fax (202) 418-2825 TTY (202) 418-0484

The Wireline Competition Bureau develops and recommends policy goals, objectives, programs and plans for the Commission on matters concerning wireline telecommunications. The Wireline Competition Bureau’s overall objectives include: ensuring choice, opportunity, and fairness in the development of wireline telecommunications services and markets; developing deregulatory initiatives; promoting economically efficient investment in wireline telecommunications infrastructure; promoting the development and widespread availability of wireline telecommunications services; and fostering economic growth. The Bureau is organized into four divisions and an Administrative and Management Office.

HEADLINES

Headline Archives

7/30/10
FCC Conditionally Grants Forbearance Requests for Lifeline Universal Service Support.
Order: Word | Acrobat

7/29/10
WCB Seeks Comment on Petition to Preempt Maine Interconnection Decision.
Public Notice: Word | Acrobat

7/29/10
WCB Announces the List of Roundtable Participants at the July 29, 2010 Payphone Dial-Around Compensation Workshop.
List: Acrobat

7/28/10
WCB Provides Details for the July 29, 2010 Payphone Dial-Around Compensation Workshop.
Public Notice: Word | Acrobat

7/28/10
WCB Seeks Comment on UTEX Renewed Petition for Preemption of Public Utility Commission of Texas Jurisdiction regarding Interconnection Disputes.
Public Notice: Word | Acrobat

7/20/10
FCC Finds 14 to 24 Million Americans Lack Access to Broadband.
News Release: Word | Acrobat
Report: Word | Acrobat
Appendix D: High-Speed Services for Internet Access Report: Acrobat
Genachowski Statement: Word | Acrobat
Copps Statement: Word | Acrobat
McDowell Statement: Word | Acrobat
Clyburn Statement: Word | Acrobat
Baker Statement: Word | Acrobat

7/15/10
FCC Program to Expand Investment in Broadband Health Care Technology.
News Release: Word | Acrobat
NPRM: Word | Acrobat
Genachowski Statement: Word | Acrobat
Copps Statement: Word | Acrobat
McDowell Statement: Word | Acrobat
Clyburn Statement: Word | Acrobat
Baker Statement: Word | Acrobat

7/15/10
FCC Proposes Electronic Access to Rate Information.
News Release: Word | Acrobat

7/13/10
Wireline Competition Bureau Announces Room Change And Provides Further Details for the July 19, 2010 Special Access Workshop.
Public Notice: Word | Acrobat

7/2/10
Comments Sought On Purple Communications, Inc. Petition for Clarification or Waiver to Implement Call Forwarding Service for Internet-Based Telecommunications Relay Service Users.
Public Notice: Word | Acrobat

7/1/10
Bureau Declines to Take Action on Protested Tariff Transmittals.
Public Notice: Word | Acrobat

7/1/10
WCB Seeks Comment on Revisions to FCC Forms 470 and 471 Under the Paperwork Reduction Act.
Public Notice: Word | Acrobat
Form 470: Word | Acrobat
Form 470 Instructions: Word | Acrobat
Form 471: Word | Acrobat
Form 471 Instructions: Word | Acrobat

7/1/10
WCB Announces Carryover of Unused Schools and Libraries Universal Service Funds for Funding Year 2010.
Public Notice: Word | Acrobat

6/30/10
FCC declines to Reconsider Feature Group IP's Petition.
Order on Reconsideration: Word | Acrobat

6/30/10
WCB Grants Verizon Long Distance Discontinuance Applications.
First Order: Word | Acrobat
Second Order: Word | Acrobat

6/30/10
WCB Announces July 19, 2010 Workshop to Discuss the Analytical Framework for Assessing the Effectiveness of the Existing Special Access Rules.
Public Notice: Word | Acrobat

6/30/10
WCB Grants Qwest and Iowa Telecom Study Area Waiver Request in Iowa and Qwest and Hershey Study Area Waiver Request in Nebraska.
Order: Word | Acrobat

6/29/10
Pleading Cycle Established for Comments on Review of Wireline Competition Bureau Data Practices.
Public Notice: Word | Acrobat
Data Inventory: Excel

6/25/10
Wireline Competition Bureau Announces July 29, 2010 Payphone Dial-Around Compensation Workshop.
Public Notice: Word | Acrobat

6/25/10
FCC Conditionally Grants i-wireless Forbearance Request for Lifeline Universal Service Support.
Order: Word | Acrobat

6/25/10
FCC Releases New Local Telephone Competition Data.
News Release: Word | Acrobat
Report: Acrobat

6/25/10
WCB Authorizes Opening of 855 Toll Free Number Code.
Letter: Acrobat

6/23/10
WCB Grants Action Communication's Rural Health Care Waiver Request.
Order: Word | Acrobat

6/23/10
WCB Denies Pioneer Telephone's Request for Review of a Universal Service Contribution Decision.
Order: Word | Acrobat

6/22/10
FCC Finds Qwest Failed to Show Need to Change Policy Status Quo in Phoenix, Arizona Market.
News Release: Word | Acrobat
Order: Word | Acrobat
Genachowski Statement: Word | Acrobat
Copps Statement: Word | Acrobat
McDowell Statement: Word | Acrobat
Baker Statement: Word | Acrobat
Public Notice: Word | Acrobat

6/22/10
WCB Extends to October 6, 2010 Conexions Forbearance Deadline.
Order: Word | Acrobat

• The Administrative and Management Office oversees the direction of all Bureau-wide management and administrative programs.

• The Competition Policy Division’s primary mission is to foster competition in the provision of telecommunications services through market-opening rulemaking and adjudicatory proceedings affecting wireline telecommunications service providers. The division also administers numbering resources.

• The Pricing Policy Division administers the provisions of the Communications Act requiring that the charges, practices, classifications, and regulations of communications common carriers providing interstate and foreign services are just and reasonable.

• The Telecommunications Access Policy Division’s primary mission is to advance the goals of universal service that all consumers in the Nation have access to quality telecommunications and information services at affordable rates.

• The Industry Analysis and Technology Division provides economic, financial, and technical analyses of telecommunications markets to the Bureau, and the Commission.