Welcome to the homepage for the Competition Policy Division of the FCC's Wireline Competition Bureau. Our primary mission is to foster competition in the provision of telecommunications services through market-opening rulemaking and policy making proceedings that concern major non-pricing issues affecting wireline telecommunications service providers. We are also responsible for the implementation of non-pricing aspects of the local competition requirements of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (1996 Act). Our division recommends rules and regulatory programs that address interconnection and unbundling requirements for Local Exchange Carriers (LECs), the unbundling of network features and functions useful to information service providers (ISPs), competition in the Interexchange Marketplace, the regulatory classification of carriers. Additionally, we are tasked with reviewing applications from wireline carriers for transfers of licenses and discontinuance of service.

07/17/08
PUBLIC NOTICE: Notice of Domestic Section 214 Application Granted. DA 08-1684, WC Docket 08-88.
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• Domestic Section 214 application filed for the Transfer of Control of SNIP LINK, LLC., to Ira D. Riklis, DA 08-1421, WC Docket 08-88. Grant Effective: 07/17/08
  

07/14/08
PUBLIC NOTICE: Notice of Domestic Section 214 Application Granted. DA 08-1651, WC Docket 08-84.
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• Domestic Section 214 application filed for the Transfer of Control of Lincolnville Telephone Company to Shirley Manning. ,DA 08-1392, WC Docket 08-84. Grant Effective: 07/12/08
  

07/11/08
ERRATUM: On June 27, 2008, Wireline Competition Bureau release Public Notice, DA 08-1524, WC Docket 08-79. This erratum hereby corrects the Public Notice by deleting footnote number 4 from the text and renumbering footnotes 5 through 7 as footnotes 4 and 6.
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07/11/08
PUBLIC NOTICE: Domestic Section 214 application filed for the Transfer of Control of AGM Telecom Corporation to Public Communications Services, Inc. DA 08-1643, WC Docket 08-138.
Streamlined Pleading Cycle Established.
Comments Due: 07/25/08. Replies Due: 08/01/08.
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07/11/08
PUBLIC NOTICE: Domestic Section 214 application filed for the Acquisition of Certain Assets of Empire State Independent Network, LLC by ION HoldCo., LLC. DA 08-1634, WC Docket 08-89.
Streamlined Pleading Cycle Established.
Comments Due: 07/25/08. Replies Due: 08/01/08.
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07/11/08
PUBLIC NOTICE: Notice of Non-Streamlined Domestic Section 214 Application Granted. DA 08-1640, WC Docket 08-83.
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• Domestic Section 214 application filed for the Transfer of Control of Blackduck Telephone Company to Paul Bunyan Telephone Cooperative., DA 08-1640, WC Docket 08-83. Grant Effective: 07/11/08
  

07/02/08
PUBLIC NOTICE: Notice of Request for Access to Carrier Data filed in the Numbering Resource Utilization and Forecasts Reports (NRUF).
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07/01/08
PUBLIC NOTICE: Pleading cycle established for comments on Petition for Order Declaring Channel Islands Telephone Company an incumbent local exchange carrier Pursuant to Section 251(H)(2) of the Communications Act.
Comments Due: 07/31/08. Replies Due: 08/15/08.
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06/30/08
PUBLIC NOTICE: Notice of Non-Streamlined Domestic Section 214 Application Granted. DA 08-1535, WC Docket 08-77.
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• Domestic Section 214 application filed for the Transfer of Control of Western Telephone Company, Inc. to Venture Communications Cooperative, Inc., DA 08-1252, WC Docket 08-77. Grant Effective: 06/30/08
  

06/30/08
PUBLIC NOTICE: Notice of Domestic Section 214 Authorizations Granted. DA 08-1534, WC Docket 08-69 & 08-75.
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• Domestic Section 214 application filed for the Transfer of Control of South Communications, Inc. to First Data Corporation. DA 08-1229, WC Docket 08-69. Grant Effective: 06/29/08
  

• Domestic Section 214 application filed for the Transfer of Certain Assets of CenturyTel Acquisition LLC to Onvoy, Inc. and Zayo Bandwidth Indiana, LLC. DA 08-1271, WC Docket 08-75. Grant Effective: 06/30/08.
  

06/27/08
PUBLIC NOTICE: Domestic Section 214 application filed for the Transfer of Control of Vanco Solutions, Inc. and Vanco US LLC to Flag Telecom Group Services Limited. DA 08-1524. WC Docket 08-79.
Streamlined Pleading Cycle Established.
Comments Due: 07/11/08. Replies Due: 07/18/08.
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06/23/08
PUBLIC NOTICE: Domestic Section 214 appilcation filed for the Transfer of Certain Assets of True LD., LLC., to STI Prepaid, LLC. WC Docket 08-92, DA 08-1466. Streamlined Pleading Cycle Established.
Comments Due: 07/07/08. Replies Due: 07/14/08.
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06/23/08
PUBLIC NOTICE: Domestic Section 214 application filed for the Transfer of Certain Assets of iBroadband Networks, Inc. d/b/a Cedar Valley Communications America, Corp. to Telenational Communications, Inc., d/b/a T.N.C. Communications, Inc. WC Docket 08-74, DA 08-1465. Streamlined Pleading Cycle Established.
Comments Due: 07/07/08. Replies Due: 07/14/08.
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