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WCB Headline Archives for 1997
- Commission addresses Universal Service issues raised by petitioners.
(CC Docket Nos. 96-45, 96-262, 94-1, 92-213, 95-72; FCC 97-420 )
[ News
Release | WordPerfect
Format | Text
Format | Zip
Format ].12/30/97
- FCC establishes procedures it will use to designate carriers not
under the jurisdiction of a state commission as eligible to receive
universal service support. (CC Docket No. 97-62, FCC 97-419) [News
Release | Text
Format | WordPerfect
Format] 12/30/97
- Common Carrier Bureau Issues Letter in Response to Paging Company
Concerns Regarding Implementation of Telecommunications Act of 1996.
(DA 97-2726)
[ Text format | WordPerfect
format ].12/30/97
- Commission Denies BellSouth's
Application to Provide Long Distance Services in South Carolina.
(CC Docket No. 97-208, FCC 97-418) 12/24/97
- FCC releases Common
Carrier Scorecard providing an overview of how telephone companies
performed individually and as a group, and highlighting the types
of telephone-related consumer complaints and inquiries processed
by the FCC during the most recent reporting period. 12/24/97
- Jurisdictional Separations NPRM Comments available for downloading
(CC Docket No. 80-286) 80-286 Comments . 12/23/97
- Staff members of the FCC release version 2.0 of the customer location
and loop design modules of the Hybrid
Cost Proxy Model. 12/19/97
- FCC revises universal service collection amounts for the first six
months of 1998 to better correspond with anticipated demand (CC Docket
No. 96-45, FCC 97-411). [ Text
Format | WordPerfect
Format | Acrobat
Format | HTML] 12/16/97
- Common Carrier Bureau seeks comment on accelerated docket for handling
formal complaints filed with the Commission. (CC Docket No. 96-238,
DA 97-2178) [Text
Format | WordPerfect
Format] 12/12/97
- FCC releases 1996/1997 Edition of the Statistics
of Communications Common Carriers. 12/5/97
- The Common Carrier Bureau and the Office of General Counsel will
hold a public forum on Wednesday, December 17 at 9:30am. The purpose
of the forum is to receive ideas regarding Commission regulations administered
by the Bureau that are candidates for repeal or modification (DA 97-2546).
The forum will be broadcast
live in RealAudio over the internet.
[Text
Format | WordPerfect
Format] 12/4/97
- Common Carrier Bureau grants extension of time to States choosing
to file cost studies for determining federal univeral service support
(CC Docket Nos. 96-45 and 97-160, DA 97-2538).
[ Text Format | WordPerfect
Format | Acrobat
Format ] 12/3/97
- Network Services Division of the Common Carrier Bureau grants waiver
of the four-digit carrier identification code (CIC) implementation
schedule for certain small carriers (DA 97-2528).
[ Text Format | WordPerfect
Format] 12/3/97
- FCC concludes investigation of 1997 access tariff filings by ordering
local exchange carriers to revise rates and issue refunds (CC Docket
No. 97-149, FCC 97-403). [ Text
Format | WordPerfect
Format | PDF
Format] 12/1/97
- FCC releases Industry Analysis Division's Carrier
Locator listing 3,832 telecommunications carriers that provided
interstate services in 1996. 11/28/97
- FCC Adopts Streamlined Process for Resolution of Formal Complaints
against Telecommunications Providers (CC Docket No. 96-238, FCC 97-396).
[ Text Version | WordPerfect
Version ] 11/25/97
- The
Common Carrier Bureau's Consumer Protection Branch Launches Paperless
Environment. 11/25/97
- Common Carrier Bureau extends filing deadlines for Further Notice
of Proposed Rulemaking on Carrier Identification Codes. (CC Docket
No. 92-237, DA 97-2439). [ Text
Version | WordPerfect
Version ] 11/21/97
- FCC releases Industry Analysis Division report on Telecommunications
Industry Revenues for 1996 as reported in Telecommunications
Relay Service Fund filings. 11/17/97
- FCC releases Order Concluding Investigation and Denying Application
for Review of Southwestern Bell Telephone Company Tariff F.C.C. No.
73, CC Docket No. 97-158, Transmittal No. 2633, FCC 97-394. [ Text
Version | WordPerfect
Version ] 11/17/97
- FCC releases Industry Analysis Division report on Equal
Access Lines and Presubscribed Lines. 11/3/97
- Common Carrier Bureau makes available modules
for determining customer location and outside plant design in
The Hybrid Cost Proxy Model. 10/30/97
- FCC releases Memorandum Opinion and Order in the Matter of Beehive
Telephone, Inc., and Beehive Telephone Nevada, Inc. (Complainants),
v. The Bell Operating Companies, (defendants), File No. E-94-57, FCC
97-387. [ Order
with attachment (Acrobat Format, 40 pages, 1.2 MB) | Order
without attachment (WordPerfect Format, 20 pages, 99 KB) | Attachment
only (Acrobat Format, 20 pages, 1.1 MB) ]. 10/27/97
- FCC releases Industry Analysis Division's Telephone
Subscribership Report. 10/22/97
- FCC releases Industry Analysis Division's Preliminary
International Telecommunications Traffic Report for 1996. 10/20/97
- Commission Releases Third
Report & Order on Universal Service, Schools, and Libraries. 10/15/97
- Competitive Pricing Division Announces New Electronic Tariff Filing
System [ Public
Notice | Electronic
Tariff Filing System ] 10/14/97
- FCC releases Industry Analysis Division's report on Long
Distance Market Shares for the 2nd Quarter of 1997. 10/10/97
- FCC releases Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking commenton on rules
for implementing the Community Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (FCC
97-356, CC Docket No. 97-213). [ Text
Format | WordPerfect
Format ] 10/10/97
- FCC releases Order on pay telephone reclassification and compensation
provisions of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (FCC 97-371, CC Docket
Nos. 96-128). [ Corrected
Text Format | Corrected
WordPerfect Format ] 10/9/97 Corrected versions
posted 10/23/97
- FCC directs the North American Numbering Council to recommend an
entity to administer the toll-free number database. In addition, the
Commission reaffirms the selection of North American Numbering Plan
Administrator and Billing & Collection Agent (FCC 97-372, CC Docket
Nos. 92-237, 95-155). [ Text
Format | WordPerfect
Format ] 10/9/97
- The Common Carrier Bureau and the Schools and Libraries Corporation
is Sponsoring a Workshop on Application Forms on Friday, October 10. [ Public
Notice | Draft Forms ] 10/9/97
- FCC releases a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking initiating a comprehensive
review of Part 36 jurisdictional separations procedures to ensure that
they meet the objectives of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (FCC
97-354, CC Docket No. 80-286). [ Text
Format | WordPerfect
Format ] 10/7/97
- FCC preempts facilities build-out requirements of Texas Public Utility
Regulatory Act while upholding State Commission's pro-competitive interpretations
of other Texas requirements (FCC 97-346). [ News
Release | Text
Format | WordPerfect
Format | PDF
Format] 10/1/97
- Common Carrier Bureau announces procedures
for states regarding lifeline consents, adoption of intrastate
discount matrix for schools and libraries, and designation of eligible
telecommunications carriers. 10/1/97
- Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service Announces the Creation
of a Rural Task Force; Solicits Nominations for Membership on
Rural Task Force. 9/17/97
- Universal Service Companies to Hold Open Meetings
- Universal
Service Administrative Company Board of Directors
- Schools
and Libraries Corporation Board of Directors
- Rural
Health Care Corporation Board of Directors
9/17/97
- Commission Approves Incorporation Documents for Universal Service
Administrative Company, Schools and Libraries Corporation, and Rural
Health Care Corporation, CC
Docket Nos. 96-45, 97-21 9/15/97
- Common Carrier Bureau Seeks Comment on Universal
Service Support Distribution Options for Schools, Libraries, and
Rural Health Care Providers.9/10/97
- FCC releases NPRM asking for comment on the defintion of "single
business line" and "primary residential line" for the purposes of applying
subscriber line charges (FCC 97-316, CC Docket No. 97-181). [ Erratum | Corrected
Text Version | Corrected
WordPerfect Version |
Corrected
Acrobat Version ] 9/9/97
- FCC releases Frequently
Asked Questions (FAQ) on Universal Service Benefits for Rural Health
Care Providers. 9/5/97
- Second FNPRM in the Matter of Federal-State Joint Board on Universal
Service Access Charge Reform, Price Cap Performance Review for Local
Exchange Carriers, Transport Rate Structure and Pricing, and End User
Common Line Charge (FCC 97-317). [ Text
Version | WordPerfect
Version | Acrobat
Version ] 9/5/97
- FCC releases Fiber
Deployment Update for 1996. 8/29/97
- Responses to
Universal Service Data Request Order requiring information from certain
large LECs to enable the Commission to evaluate forward-looking economic
cost models are available. 8/27/97
- Order
on Metrocall, Inc. motion for extension of time to file the Universal
Service Worksheet, FCC form 457 (Worksheet). 8/27/97
- FCC Affirms, with Minor Modifications, Decision to Eliminate Tariff
Filing Requirements for Long Distance Carriers (FCC 97-293, CC Docket
No. 96-61).
[ Text Version | WordPerfect
Version | News
Release ] 8/20/97
- FCC Addresses Number Portability Implementation Issues (FCC 97-289,
CC Docket No. 95-116).
[ Text Version | WordPerfect
Version | News
Release ] 8/20/97
- FCC Addresses Petitions for Reconsideration of its Local Competition
Order, Clarifies Shared Transport Issues (FCC 97-295, CC Dkt. Nos.
96-98, 95-185)
[ News
Release | Word
Perfect Version | Text
Version ] 8/19/97
- Order
on Changes to the Board of Directors of the National Exchange Carrier
Association, Inc., FCC 97-292. 8/15/97
- Public Notice on Self-Certification as a Rural Telephone Company.
[Corrected
Version (released 9/22/97) | Original
Version ] 8/14/97
- FCC Approval of Bell Atlantic/Nynex Merger Subject to Market-opening
Conditions [ News
Release | Word
Perfect Version | Text
Version ]. 8/14/97
- Listing
of changes adopted in the May 8 Universal Service Order that
will take effect January 1, 1998. 8/14/97
- FCC
Announces Non-substantive Changes to Universal Service Worksheet
Instructions Released on August 4, 1997. 8/12/97
- Procedures For States to Elect to File State-conducted Forward-looking
Cost Studies for Universal Service Support for Non-rural Carriers (CC
Docket Nos. 96-45 and 97-160). DA
97-1677 8/7/97
- Reply
Comments on LCI's petition for expedited rulemaking (RM 9101)
concerning the requirements governing operations support systems
(OSS) estabilshed in Commission's Local Competition First Report
and Order, CC Docket 96-98 are now available for downloading. 8/5/97
- Commission Seeks Comment on the Rural
Telephone Companies' Joint Emergency Petition for Partial Stay of
the Commission's Report and Order (FCC 97-157) in the matter of the
Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service. 8/4/97
- Common Carrier Bureau releases 1997 Annual Access Tariff Designation
Order (CC Docket No. 97-149) [ Text
Version | WordPerfect
Version ]. 7/29/97
- FCC releases Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking comment
on the mechanism the Commission should use to estimate the forward-looking
economic costs that non-rural local exchange carriers would incur to
provide universal sevice in rural, insular, and high cost areas [ Text
Version | WordPerfect
Version ]. 7/18/97
- Common Carrier Bureau seeks recommendations on Commission actions
critical to the promotion of efficient local exchange competition [ Text
Version | WordPerfect
Version ]. 7/18/97
- FCC releases Industry Analysis Division's 1st Quarter 1997 Long
Distance Market Share Report
- FCC releases Public Notice clarifying Section 43.61 International
Traffic Data Reporting Requirements [ Text
Version | WordPerfect
Version | PDF
Version ]. 7/16/97
- Erratum to the Universal Service Order on Reconsideration [ Text
Version | WordPerfect
Version ], and the corrected version of the Order on Reconsideration
[ Text
Version | WordPerfect
Version ]. 7/16/97
- FCC Proposes Further Action to Prevent Slamming (CC Docket No. 94-129,
FCC 97-248).
[ Text
Version | WordPerfect
Version | Acrobat
Version | News
Release ] 7/16/97
- Comments on
LCI's petition for expedited rulemaking (RM 9101) concerning the requirements
governing operations support systems (OSS) estabilshed in Commission's
Local Competition First Report and Order, CC Docket 96-98 are now available
for downloading. 7/14/97
- FCC Reconsiders Issues in its Universal Service Order (CC Docket
No. 96-45).
[ Text Version | WordPerfect
Version
] 7/11/97
- FCC releases Universal
Service Data Request Order requiring information from certain
large LECs to enable the Commission to evaluate forward-looking economic
cost models. 7/11/97
- Transcript
of the Forum on LEC Billing, June 24, 1997. 7/10/97
- FCC releases Industry Analysis Division's Preliminary
Statistics of Communications Common Carriers . 6/30/97
- Commission
Denies SBC Application to Provide Long Distance Telephone Service
in the State of Oklahoma (CC Docket No. 97-121). 6/26/97
- FCC releases Second Order on Reconsideration on Implementation of
the Non-Accounting Safeguards of Sections 271 and 272 of the Communications
Act of 1934, as Amended (CC Docket No. 96-149, FCC 97-222). [ Text
Version | WordPerfect
Version ] 6/25/97
- FCC denies petitions for stay of its Access Reform and X-Factor orders
(FCC 97-216, CC Dockets 96-262, 94-1, 91-213, 95-72). [ Text
Version | WordPerfect
Version ] 6/19/97
- FCC releases Industry Analysis Division report on Trends
in the U.S. International Telecommunications Industry. 6/18/97
- FCC releases Physical Collocation Tariff Investigation, Second Report & Order
(FCC 97-208, CC Docket No. 93-162). [ Text
Format | WordPerfect
Format | Additional
Appendices and Tables in Excel Format - zipped ] 6/13/97
- Transcripts of the Operations Support Systems Forum that was held
on May 28 [ Text
Format | WordPerfect
Format ] and May 29 [ Text
Format | WordPerfect
Format ] are now available online. 6/11/97
- FCC releases Errata to
Price Cap Fourth Report & Order (FCC 97-159, CC Docket No. 94-1). 6/11/97
- FCC releases Errata to
Access Charge Reform First Report & Order (FCC 97-158, CC Docket No.
96-262).
- Common Carrier Bureau Announces Agenda for
Operations Support Systems Forum. 5/20/97
- 12
and 18 Month Report of Industry Team on Coin Sent-Paid TRS available
on line (comments due June 2, 1997)5/12/97
- The FCC Report & Order on Universal Service (FCC
97-157) is now available for downloading. 5/8/97
- Commission Implements Telecom Act's Universal
Service Provisions, and Reforms its Price
Cap Plan and Access
Charge System. 5/7/97
- Reply
Comments on the Internet Access & Information Service Provider
NOI (CC Docket No. 96-263, FCC 96-488) are now available for downloading. 5/1/97
- Comments
and Reply Comments in the matter of Implementation of Section
273 of the Communications Act of 1934 as amended by the Telecommunications
Act of 1996 (FCC 96-472, CC Docket No. 96-254) are now available
for downloading. 4/4/97
- Comments on
the Internet Access & Information Service Provider NOI (CC Docket No.
96-263, FCC 96-488) are now available for downloading. 3/26/97
- FCC releases Telephone Number Portability Order (FCC
97-74, CC Docket No. 95-116, RM-8535). [ Text
Version | WordPerfect
Version | Acrobat
Version | News
Release ] 3/13/97
- Comments
and Reply Comments on the 1/9/97 Cost Proxy Models Staff Analysis
are now available for downloading. 3/10/97
- Common Carrier Bureau issues Letter in
response to paging company concerns regarding implementation of Telecommunications
Act of 1996. 3/4/97
- Enforcement Division Releases New
Fact Sheets on 900 Number Pay-Per-Call and Other Information
Services and Telephone Issues. 3/3/97
- Nine
Additional Reply Comments on the Access Charge Reform NPRM (FCC
96-488) are now available for downloading. 2/26/97
- Common Carrier Bureau outlines accomplishments since enactment of
the 1996 act. [ News
Release | Report ] 2/20/97
- FCC Creates New 311 Code for Non-emergency Police Calls and 711 Code
for Access to Telecomunications Relay Services. [ Text
Version | Word
Perfect Version | News
Release ] 2/19/97
- Reply
Comments on the Access Charge Reform NPRM (FCC 96-488) are now
available for downloading. 2/19/97
- FCC grants Ameritech Michigan's request to dismiss its pending application
for authorization to provide in-region, interLATA services in the State
of Michigan. [ DA 97-331: Text
Version | WordPerfect
Version ] [ FCC 97-40: Text
Version | WordPerfect
Version ] 2/13/97
- Further extension of time granted for parties to submit comments
in response to Commission Staff's Analysis of Cost Proxy Models, DA
97-333. [ previous
extension ]
Staff's Analysis: [Text
Version | WordPerfect
Version | Acrobat
Version ] 2/13/97
- Statistics
Of Communications Common Carriers now available from the U.S.
Government Printing Office. 2/11/97
- Commission implements Telemessaging and Electronic Publishing provisions
of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. [ Text
Version | WordPerfect
Version ] 2/7/97
- FCC grants ALTS motion to strike AT&T agreement from Ameritech Filing.
[ Text
Version | WordPerfect ] 2/7/97
- Proxy
Cost Model Workshop Comments (CC Docket 96-45) are now available
for downloading. 2/6/97
- Commission Adopts Tariff Streamlining Provisions of the Telecommunications
Act of 1996 (CC Docket No. 96-187). [ Text
Version | WordPerfect
Version | News
Release ]. 2/6/97
- Extension of time granted for parties to submit comments in response
to Commission Staff's Analysis [ Text
Version | WordPerfect
Version | Acrobat
Version ] of Cost Proxy Models, DA 97-239 [ Public
Notice ]. 2/6/97
- Comments on
the Access Charge Reform NPRM (FCC 96-488) are now available for downloading. 1/31/97
- Common Carrier Bureau Grants Requests for Extension of Time to File
Comments and Replies in Response to the Access Reform Notice of Proposed
Rulemaking, CC Docket Nos. 96-262, 94-1, 91-213.
[ Text
Version | WordPerfect
Version ] 1/23/97
- Reply
Comments on the Recommended
Decision of the Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service
are now available for downloading. 1/15/97
- FCC releases NOI on Telecommunications Relay Services, the Americans
with Disabilities Act of 1990, and the Telecommunications Act of 1996
(CC 90-571, FCC 97-7) [ Text
Version | WordPerfect
Version ]. 1/15/97
- FCC
Releases Report on Long Distance Market. 1/15/97
- Commission Staff Releases Analysis of Forward-Looking Economic Cost
Proxy Models.
[ Public
Notice | Staff Analysis: Text
Version | WordPerfect
Version | Acrobat
Version ] 1/13/97
- Comments on
the Recommended
Decision of the Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service
are now available for downloading. 1/3/97
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