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Computer III Further Remand Proceeding

• Petition of USTelecom for Forbearance Under 47 U.S.C. § 160(c) from Enforcement of Certain Legacy Telecommunications Regulations et al., WC Docket No. 12-61 et al., Memorandum Opinion and Order and Report and Order in WC Docket No. 10-132 and Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and Second Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, FCC 13-69 (rel. May 17, 2013). Fed Reg
• PETITION OF USTELECOM FOR FORBEARANCE, ET AL. Granted forbearance from certain rules and requirements covered by USTelecom's petition. (Dkt No. 98-10 12-61 05-342 10-132 07-273 08-225 09-206 07-21 95-20 07-139 02-39 08-190 07-204 00-175 ). Action by: the Commission. Adopted: 05/10/2013 by MO&O. (FCC No. 13-69). WCB   FCC-13-69A1.docx  FCC-13-69A2.docx  FCC-13-69A3.docx  FCC-13-69A1.pdf FCC-13-69A2.pdf  FCC-13-69A3.pdf  FCC-13-69A1.txt  FCC-13-69A2.txt  FCC-13-69A3.txt  
• Para 22
  • elimination of the BOCs’ obligation to file reports regarding CEI and ONA
  • NPRM whether to retain, modify, or eliminate the CEI and ONA requirements and the All-Carrier Rule.
• Released:  07/03/2013.  WIRELINE COMPETITION BUREAU ANNOUNCES COMMENT CYCLE FOR FURTHER NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULEMAKING ON COMPUTER III REQUIREMENTS. (DA No.  13-1516). (Dkt No 98-10 95-20 ). Comments Due:  07/31/2013. Reply Comments Due:  08/30/2013.  WCB . Public Notice of Comment Deadlines: TXT
• Review of WCB's Bureau Data Practices
  • Review of Wireline Competition Bureau Data Practices, Computer III Further Remand Proceedings:  Bell Operating Company Provision of Enhanced Services; 1998 Biennial Regulatory Review – Review of Computer III and ONA Safeguards and Requirements, Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, WC Docket No. 10-132, CC Docket Nos. 95-20, 98-10, 26 FCC Rcd 11280 (2011)  WCB TXT On its own motion Bureau granted a temporary waiver of the narrowband CEI/ONA reporting requirements that apply to the Bell Operating Companies, pending resolution of the NPRM that proposes eliminating the reporting requirements.
  • Review of Wireline Competition Bureau Data Practices, Computer III Further Remand Proceedings:  Bell Operating Company Provision of Enhanced Services; 1998 Biennial Regulatory Review – Review of Computer III and ONA Safeguards and Requirements, Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, WC Docket No. 10-132, CC Docket Nos. 95-20, 98-10, 25 FCC Rcd 1579 (2011) "On February 8, 2011, the Commission proposed eliminating the legacy CEI/ONA narrowband reporting requirements required under the Computer III safeguards “due to a lack of continuing relevance and utility.” It explained that, since it raised the issue in the 2006 and 2008 Biennial Review proceedings, no commenter opposed eliminating the reporting requirements or advocated retaining them. The CEI/ONA Notice stated that the Commission does not rely on any of the submissions in the course of its decision making"
  • Pleading Cycle Established for Comments on Review of Wireline Competition Bureau Data Practices, WC Docket No. 10-132, Public Notice, 25 FCC Rcd 8213 (Wireline Comp. Bur. 2010)
• Computer III Further Remand Proceedings; 1998 Biennial Regulatory Review --Review of Computer III and ONA Safeguards and Requirements CC Docket Nos. 95-20, 98-10
  • See Broadband NPRM.  "Because the instant inquiry overlaps with the Commission's pending Computer III Further Remand, we incorporate the Computer III Further Remand proceeding by reference insofar as it relates to the BOCs' access obligations with respect to broadband services."  In Re Appropriate Framework for Broadband Access to the Internet over Wireline Facilities, CC Docket No. 02-33, CC Dockets Nos. 95-20, 98-10, NPRM ¶ 8 (February 15, 2002)  
  • Federal Register Notice.  Public Notice Mar 7 2001 Word | Text
• Computer III Further Remand Proceedings: Bell Operating Co. Provision of Enhanced Servs., Order on Reconsideration, 14 F.C.C.R. 21628, para. 6, 18 Comm. Reg. (P & F) 1344 (1999)
  • Computer III Further Remanded Proceedings: Bell Operating Company Provision of Enhanced Services; Biennial Review, CC Docket No. 95-20, Order on Reconsideration (December 17, 1999). | Text | Word |  COMPUTER III FURTHER REMAND PROCEEDINGS.  Granted in part and denied in part the Petition for Reconsideration and Clarification filed by Commercial Internet eXchange Association, seeking reconsideration of a March 24, 1999, Order by the Commission.  Dkt No.: CC- 95-20, CC- 98-10.  Action by the Commission.  Adopted: December 9, 1999.  by Order.  (FCC No. 99-387).  OMD | Word | Text |
  • Computer III Remand Proceeding: Bell Operating Company Provision of Enhanced Services, CC Docket No. 95-20, CC Docket No. 98-10, CIX Petition for Recon (April 26, 1999). CIX Petition for Recon
• Computer III Remand Proceeding: Bell Operating Company Provision of Enhanced Services, CC Docket No. 95-20, CC Docket No. 98-10, Report and Order (March 10, 1999) | Text | Wordperfect |    
  • FCC Eliminates Comparably Efficient Interconnection Pre approval process and Streamlines Network Information Disclosure Rules.  (CC DOCKET NOS. 95-20 AND 98-10). The Commission released an Order streamlining its Comparably Efficient Interconnection (CEI) and Network Disclosure rules while maintaining protections against discriminatory practices. Action by the Commission February 24, 1999, by Report and Order (FCC 99-36). CCB   | Press Release | Order | March 10, 1999. "The BOCs originally filed their CEI plans on paper and needed approval from the Commission before the plans could take effect.  In 1999, the Commission streamlined the CEI process, permitting the companies to post their plans on the Internet and then notify the Bureau at the time of the postings with no pre-approval required."
  • Computer III Further Remand Proceedings:  Bell Operating Company Provision of Enhanced Services, CC Docket No. 95-20; 1998 Biennial Regulatory Review—Review of Computer III and ONA Safeguards and Requirements, CC Docket No. 98-10, Report and Order, 14 FCC Rcd 4289 (1999)
• Computer III Further Remand Proceedings: Bell Operating Company Provision of Enhanced Services; 1998 Biennial Regulatory Review B Review of Computer III and ONA Safeguards and Requirements, Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, CC Docket No. 98-10, 13 FCC Rcd 6040 (Jan 30, 1998) Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (Jan 30, 1998)

See Telecom Act of 1996

• Computer III Further Remand Proceeding:  Bell Operating Company Provision of Enhanced Services, Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, CC Docket No. 95-20, 10 FCC Rcd 8360 (1995).
  • Computer III Further Remand, CC Docket 95-20, Order (April 25, 1995) (granting USTA's and Joint Parties Motion for Extension of time in which to file comments) | Text | WordPerfect |
• Implementation of the Non-Accounting Safeguards of Sections 271 and 272 of the Comm. Act of 1934, as Amended, Order on Reconsideration, 12 F.C.C.R. 2297, 6 Comm. Reg. (P & F) 972 (1997) [Non Accounting Safeguards Order on Recon]
• Establishment of a Funding Mechanism for Interstate Operator Servs. for the Deaf, Memorandum Opinion and Order, 11 F.C.C.R. 6808, 2 Comm. Reg. (P & F) 744 (1996) [Sec. 255 Order]
• Public Notice PLEADING CYCLE ESTABLISHED ON MFS COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY, INC.'S PETITION FOR RECONSIDERATION CCBPol 96-09 DA 96-1102 Released:   July 10, 1996
• Accounting Safeguards Under the Telecomms. Act of 1996, Report and Order, 11 F.C.C.R. 17539, para. 3 n.5, 5 Comm. Reg. (P & F) 861 (1996) [hereinafter Accounting Safeguards].
• US West Comm., Inc., Petition for Computer III Waiver, Order, 11 F.C.C.R. 1195, 1 Comm. Reg. (P & F) 1261 (1995) [hereinafter US West Petition].
• Bell Operating Cos.' Joint Petition for Waiver of Computer II Rules, Memorandum Order and Opinion, 10 F.C.C.R. 1724, 76 Rad. Reg.2d (P & F) 1536 (1995) [hereinafter BOC's Joint Petition]
  • Interim Waiver Order, 10 FCC Rcd 1724 (1995) ("In the Interim Waiver Order adopted in response to the California III decision, the Bureau allowed the BOCs to continue to provide existing enhanced services on an integrated basis, provided that they filed CEI plans for those services...We concluded that the partial vacation of the BOC Safeguards Order in California III reinstated the service-specific CEI plan regime, augmented by implementation of ONA, until the Commission concluded its remand proceedings.171 BOCs were also required to comply with the requirements established in their approved ONA plans, because we had previously determined that ONA requirements are independent of the removal of structural separation requirements.1")
  • Bell Operating Companies Joint Petition for Waiver of Computer II Rules, DA 95-2264, Order (October 31, 1995)
• Independent Data Comm. Mfrs. Ass’n, Inc., Memorandum Opinion and Order, 10 F.C.C.R. 13717, 1 Comm. Reg. (P & F) 409 (1995) [Frame Relay Order]

 

• Computer III Remand Proceedings, Report and Order, 5 FCC Rcd 7719 (1990), on reconsideration, Memorandum Opinion and Order on Reconsideration, 7 FCC Rcd 909 (1992), petitions for review denied, California v. FCC, 4 F.3d 1505 (9th Cir. 1993)
• Computer III Remand Proceedings; Bell Operating Company Safeguards and Tier I Local Exchange Company Safeguards, CC Docket No. 90-623, Report and Order, 6 FCC Rcd 7571 (1991), vacated in part and remanded, California v. FCC, 39 F.3d 919 (9th Cir. 1994), cert. denied, 514 U.S. 1050 (1995);
• Computer III Further Remand Proceedings: Bell Operating Company Provision of Enhanced Services; 1998 Biennial Review - Review of Computer III and ONA Safeguards and Requirements, CC Docket Nos. 95-20, 98-10; Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Report and Order, 13 FCC Rcd 6040 (1998), Report and Order, 14 FCC Rcd 4289 (1999), on reconsideration, Order, 14 FCC Rcd 21628 (1999).

CIII Remand Proceeding

• California v. FCC, 39 F.3d 919 (9th Cir. 1994), cert. denied, 514 U.S. 1050, 115 S.Ct. 1427 [California III]. vacated in part and remanded
  • Computer III Remand Proceedings: Bell Operating Company Safeguards and Tier 1 Local Exchange Company Safeguards, 6 FCC Rcd 7571 (1991) (BOC Safeguards Order),
  • recon. dismissed in part, Order, CC Docket Nos. 90-623 and 92-256, 11 FCC Rcd 12513 (1996);
• California v. FCC, 4 F.3d 1505 (9th Cir. 1993) [California II] (Remand Pet for Review Denied)
  • Remand Recon., 7 FCC Rcd 909 (1992)
  • Remand Proceeding:  Bell Operating Company Safeguards and Tier 1 Local Exchange Company Safeguards, 6 FCC Rcd 7571 (1991)
  • Remand Proceedings, 5 FCC Rcd 7719 (1990) (ONA Remand Order)
• In the Matter of NORTH AMERICAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION Petition for Declaratory Ruling Under Section 64.702 of the Commission's Rules Regarding the Integration of Centrex, Enhanced Services, and Customer Premises Equipment ENF 84-2 MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER 3 FCC Rcd. 4385 July 21, 1988 
• Messaging Service MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER 3 FCC Rcd. 5741 September 29, 1988

Open Network Architecture Plans

• In the Matter of Filing and Review of Open Network Architecture Plans, CC Docket No. 88-2, Phase I, MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER,  4 FCC Rcd 1 (December 22, 1988)
  • recon., 5 FCC Rcd 3084 (1990) (BOC ONA Reconsideration Order)
  • 5 FCC Rcd 3103 (1990) (BOC ONA Amendment Order),
  • erratum, 5 FCC Rcd 4045 (1990),
  • pets. for review denied, California v. FCC, 4 F.3d 1505 (9th Cir. 1993),
  • recon., 8 FCC Rcd 97 (1993) (BOC ONA Amendment Reconsideration Order);
  • 6 FCC Rcd 7646 (1991) (BOC ONA Further Amendment Order);
  • 8 FCC Rcd 2606 (1993) (BOC ONA Second Further Amendment Order),
  • pet. for review denied, California v. FCC, 4 F.3d 1505 (9th Cir. 1993).
• Filing and Review of Open Network Architecture Plans, 65 Rad. Reg.2d 1361 (P & F) (1988) [hereinafter ONA Review]
  • Filing and Review of Open Network Architecture Plans, CC Docket No. 88-2 Phase I ORDER DA 88-438 (March 31, 1988)
  • Filing and Review of Open Network Architecture Plans CC Docket No. 88-2, Phase I ORDER March 8, 1988 (extension of time request)

Computer III Report and Order 1986

• People of California v. FCC, 905 F.2d 1217 (9th Cir. 1990) (vacated Computer III Report and Order) [California I]
• Phase II Further Recon., 4 FCC Rcd 5927 (1989)
• Phase II MO&O on Reconsideration, 3 FCCR 1150 (1988)
• MO&O On Further Reconsideration Phase I, 3 FCCR 1135 (1988)
• Phase I recon., 2 FCC Rcd 3035 (1987)
• Phase I, Report and Order, 2 FCC Rcd 3035 (May 22, 1987)
• Phase II, Report and Order, 2 FCC Rcd 3072 (May 22, 1987)
• Amendment of Sections 64.702 of the Comm’n’s Rules and Regs. (Third Computer Inquiry), Report and Order, CC Docket No 85-229, 104 F.C.C.2d 958, 60 Rad. Reg.2d (P & F) 603 (1986) [Computer III Report and Order]
  • Order, 1986 WL 290982   (Sept 10, 1986) (motion for leaves to exceed page limit)
  • Order, 1986 WL 290954  (Sept 2, 1986) (motion for leaves to exceed page limit)
  • Order, 1986 WL 290921  (Sept 2, 1986) (motion for extended time)
• Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, 1986 WL 291966, FCC 86-253, CC Docket No. 85-229, Phase II, June 16, 1986
• Amendment of Section 64.702 of the Commission's Rules and Regulations  (Third Computer Inquiry), Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, CC Docket No. 85- 229, 50 Fed.Reg. 33581 (Aug 20, 1985) .
• Citation: Amendment of Section 64.702 of the Commission's Rules and Regulations (Third Computer Inquiry), CC Docket No. 85-229, Report and Order, Memorandum Opinion and Order on Further Reconsideration, 104 F.C.C. 2d 958 (1986), on reconsideration, Memorandum Opinion and Order on Reconsideration, 2 FCC Rcd 3035 (1987), Memorandum Opinion and Order on Reconsideration, 3 FCC Rcd 1135 (1988) and Memorandum Opinion and Order on Further Reconsideration and Second Further Reconsideration, 4 FCC Rcd 5927 (1989), vacated in part, California v. FCC, 905 F.2d 1217 (9th Cir. 1990)

Telco ONA and CEI (these are obvious quite out of date)

• AT&T
  • Ameritech
    • Offering of service.
    • INFORMATIONAL AMENDMENT TO AMERITECH'S  PLAN TO PROVIDE  COMPARABLY EFFICIENT INTERCONNECTION (CEI)  TO PROVIDERS OF  FACSIMILE STORE AND FORWARD SERVICE Oct 8 1999
    • Inside Ameritech - Regulatory Information
    • In the Matter of  Ameritech's Comparably Efficient Interconnection Plan for Electronic Vaulting Service, CCBPol 97-03, 13 F.C.C.R. 80, Order (text) (December 31, 1997) Wordperfect [hereinafter Ameritech’s CEI Plan]
    • Public Notice AMERITECH WITHDRAWS COMPARABLY EFFICIENT INTERCONNECTION PLAN  FOR PERSONAL ACCESS SERVICE CC DOCKET NOS. 85-229, 90-623 and 95-20  June 4, 1997
    • Ameritech's Offer of Comparably Efficient Interconnection to Providers of Message Delivery Service, 11 FCC Rcd 5590 (Com. Car. Bur. 1996)
      • Public Notice PLEADING CYCLE ESTABLISHED FOR COMMENTS ON AMERITECH'S PLAN FOR  COMPARABLY EFFICIENT INTERCONNECTION TO MESSAGE DELIVERY SERVICE Released:  July 10, 1995  DA 95-1530
    • In the Matter of Ameritech and US West Waiver Petitions for Enhanced Services Research and Development CC Docket No. 85-229  ORDER 2 FCC Rcd. 4662  August 6, 1987 "In separate filings, the Ameritech Operating Companies (Ameritech) and US West seek approval to begin the unseparated planning,  research, and development of enhanced services, pursuant to the Commission's decision in the Computer III Order. We authorize Ameritech and US West, respectively, to engage in such planning, research, and development subject to the conditions specified herein."
  • AT&T (Bell Long Distance)
    • Public Notice:  PLEADING CYCLE ESTABLISHED FOR COMMENTS ON AT&T'S PETITION FOR WAIVER OF CEI REQUIREMENTS OF THIRD COMPUTER INQUIRY DA 95-2179 CCBPol 95-17 (October 17, 1995)
    • In re Petition of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company for Waiver of Comparably Efficient Interconnection Requirements of the Third Computer Inquiry MO&O 2 FCC Rcd. 5149 August 19, 1987
    • In the Matter of AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY Comparably Efficient Interconnection Plan for Codec Conversion Service MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER 3 FCC Rcd. 4683 July 29, 1988
  • Bell South
    • CEI Notifications - Bell South Interconnection Services
    • Offering of service. [Broken Link]
    • PR:  FCC Approves BS CEI Plan for Payphone Operators April 16, 1997  [Broken Link]
    • Market Trial Notification June 19 1998 (unaffiliated alarm monitoring service providers)  [Broken Link]
    • BellSouth.net
    • Bell South Fast Access Internet Service (as advertised on the Bell South Corp Page)
    • BELLSOUTH OPEN NETWORK ARCHITECTURE PLAN AMENDMENT. Granted in part BellSouth's Open Network Architecture Plan Amendment. (Dkt No. 88-2). Action by: Chief, Wireline Competition Bureau. Adopted: 03/21/2003 by M&O. (DA No. 03-849). WCB, FCC 3/24/03
    • In the Matter of BellSouth Plan for CEI for Voice Messaging Services, DA 88-1947, Memorandum Opinion and Order, 3 FCC Rcd. 7284, 65 Rad. Reg. 2d (P & F) 1113, 1988 WL 486786  (Dec 23, 1988)
  • PACBEL
    • In the Matter of Pacific Bell and Nevada Bell Plan for the Provision of Voice Mail Services MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER 3 FCC Rcd. 1095 February 18, 1988
  • SBC
    • CEI Plans
    • Network Disclosures
    • SWB Offering of service.
    • Public Affairs:  Regulatory Documents
  • SouthWestern Bell
    • Southwestern Bell Telephone Company's Comparably Efficient Interconnection Plan for Internet Access Services. (Microsoft Word document - file size 95K)
    • Released: 04/22/2003. PLEADING CYCLE ESTABLISHED FOR COMMENTS ON LETTER OF SBC COMMUNICATIONS INC. FOR COMPARABLY EFFICIENT INTERCONNECTION WAIVER. (DA No. 03-1184). (Dkt No 97-172). Comments Due: 05/05/2003. Reply Comments Due: 05/20/2003. WCB. Contact: Janice M. Myles at 1580 (re provide international electronic and operator-assisted reverse directory assistance services), FCC 4/23/03
    • Southwestern Bell Telephone Companies Comparably Efficient Interconnection Plans for Security Services, 11 FCC Rcd 10938 (Com. Car. Bur. 1997).
      • Public Notice PLEADING CYCLE ESTABLISHED FOR COMMENTS ON SWBT'S PLAN TO PROVIDE COMPARABLY EFFICIENT INTERCONNECTION FOR INTERNET SUPPORT SERVICES CCBPol 96-09 Released:  May 29, 1997
    • Southwestern Bell Telephone Companies Offer of Comparably Efficient Interconnection to Providers of Enhanced Services, 11 FCC Rcd 7041 (Com. Car. Bur. 1996)
      • Public Notice PLEADING CYCLE ESTABLISHED FOR COMMENTS ON SWBT'S AMENDMENT TO ITS COMPARABLY EFFICIENT INTERCONNECTION PLANS FOR THE PROVISION OF PAYMENT PROCESSING SERVICES - Public Notice. Released: 08/12/1996.
    • Public Notice:  PLEADING CYCLE ESTABLISHED FOR COMMENTS ON SWBT'S COMPARABLY EFFICIENT INTERCONNECTION PLANS FOR INTERNET SUPPORT SERVICES, DA 96-1031, CC Docket Nos. 85-229, 90-623 and 95-20 (June 26, 1996)
    • In the Matter of SOUTHWESTERN BELL BELLSOUTH Cost Allocation Plan for Enhanced Services Research and Development CC Docket No. 85-229 ORDER 2 FCC Rcd. 3809 June 29, 1987
    • Public Notice PLEADING CYCLE ESTABLISHED FOR COMMENTS ON SWBT'S COMPARABLY EFFICIENT INTERCONNECTION PLANS FOR SECURITY SERVICE -- CC DOCKET NOS. 85-229, 90-623 AND 95-20 - Public Notice. Released: 04/26/1996.
    • In the Matter of Southwestern Bell Telephone Company's Permanent Cost Allocation Manual for the Separation of Regulated and Nonregulated Costs AAD 7-1694 MEMORANDUM OPINION & ORDER 3 FCC Rcd. 447 Adopted:  December 28, 1987;  Released:  January 29, 1988
    • In re SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY Waiver of Section 64.702 of the Commission's Rules and Regulations to Provide Loop Status Verification Service SOUTH CENTRAL BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY AND SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY Waiver of Section 64.702 of the Commission's Rules and Regulations to Provide Spread Spectrum Transmission Services MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER 3 FCC Rcd. 4757 August 5, 1988
      
    • In the Matter of Southwestern Bell CEI Plan for the Provision of Voice Messaging Services, DA 88-1469, Memorandum Opinion and Order, 3 FCC Rcd. 6912, 65 Rad. Reg. 2d (P & F) 527, 1988 WL 489230 (Sept 29, 1988)
• Centurylink
  • Qwest
    • QWEST OPEN NETWORK ARCHITECTURE
    • CEI Plan Library
    • QWEST CORPORATION PETITION FOR PERMISSION TO WITHDRAW ONA SERVICES. Granted Qwest's petition for permission to withdraw Open Network Architecture (ONA) services Dataphone Select-a-Station, DDS2-Wire, and ScanAlert. (Dkt No. 02-355). Action by: Chief, Wireline Competition Bureau. Adopted: 04/23/2004 by MO&O. (DA No. 04-1081). WCB, FCC 4/27/2004
    • Released: 11/14/2002. PLEADING CYCLE ESABLISHED FOR COMMENTS ON QWEST PETITION TO WITHDRAW ONA SERVICES. (DA No. 02-3155). (Dkt No 02-355). Comments Due: 12/05/2002. Reply Comments Due: 12/21/2002. WCB. FCC 11/15/02
  • US West
    • Offering of service.
    • New database available for Comparably Efficient Interconnection (CEI) Plans Announcement Database (of course no documents were found in the data base on 10/21/1999)
    • In the Matter of Ameritech and US West Waiver Petitions for Enhanced Services Research and Development CC Docket No. 85-229  ORDER 2 FCC Rcd. 4662  August 6, 1987 "In separate filings, the Ameritech Operating Companies (Ameritech) and US West seek approval to begin the unseparated planning,  research, and development of enhanced services, pursuant to the Commission's decision in the Computer III Order. We authorize Ameritech and US West, respectively, to engage in such planning, research, and development subject to the conditions specified herein."
• Verizon
  • Bell Atlantic
    • Offering of service.
    • In the Matter of Offer of Comparably Efficient Interconnection to Providers of Enhanced Internet Access Services Amendment to Bell Atlantic CEI Plan April 23, 1999.  Duplicate?
    • BA PR:  FCC Approves BA Plan for Internet Access June 6, 1996
    • BA PR:  BA Announces Plans for Affordable Easy to use Internet product line April 10, 1996
    • In the Matter of The Bell Atlantic Telephone Companies Offer of Comparably Efficient Interconnection to Intranet Management Service Providers, Order (August 20, 1998)
      • Public Notice DA 98-56 PLEADING CYCLE ESTABLISHED FOR COMMENTS ON BELL ATLANTIC CEI PLAN FOR INTRANET MANAGEMENT SERVICES CCBPol 98-01 Released: January 13, 1998
    • In the Matter of Bell Atlantic Telephone Companies Offer of Comparably Efficient Interconnection to Providers of Internet Access Services, CCBPol 96-09,11 FCC Rcd 6919 Order (June 6, 1996) WordPerfect
    • Bell Atlantic Telephone Companies, Offer of Comparably Efficient Interconnection to Providers of Video Dialtone-Related Enhanced Services, DA 95-1283, 11 F.C.C.R. 985, Order (text)  |Wordperfect | (June 9, 1995)
    • In the Matter of Bell Atlantic Telephone Companies Petition for Waiver of CEI Requirements to Perform Technical Trials of Coin
    • In the Matter of The Bell Atlantic Telephone Companies Offer of Comparably Efficient Inteconnection to Enhanced Service Providers Pacific Bell and Nevada Bell Plan for the Provision of Voice Mail Services MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER 3 FCC Rcd. 3552 May 23, 1988
    • In the Matter of THE BELL ATLANTIC TELEPHONE COMPANIES Offer of Comparably Efficient Interconnection to Enhanced Service Providers MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER 3 FCC Rcd. 1108 Adopted: January 14, 1988; Released: February 18, 1988
    • In re Bell Atlantic Telephone Companies Offer of Comparably Efficient Interconnection to Providers of Voice Messaging Services MO&O 3 FCC Rcd. 5772 September 30, 1988
    • In re Bell Atlantic Telephone Companies Offer of Comparably Efficient Interconnection to Providers of Gateway Service MO&O 3 FCC Rcd. 6045 September 30, 1988
  • GTE
    • GTE ONA Order, FCC 94-58, 9 FCC Rcd 4922 (March 8, 1994) Press Release
    • In the Matter of Application of Open Network Architecture and Nondiscrimination Safeguards to GTE Corporation, CC Docket No. 92-256, Memorandum Opinion and Order, (July 29, 1995) | text | (approving GTE's ONA plan in part)
    • Public Notice PLEADING CYCLE ESTABLISHED FOR COMMENTS ON GTE'S PETITION FOR WAIVER OF CERTAIN OPEN NETWORK ARCHITECTURE REQUIREMENTS  DA  95-454 Released:  March 9, 1995
    • In the Matter of Application of Open Network Architecture and Nondiscrimination Safeguards to GTE Corporation, CC Docket No. 92-256, MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER, April 3, 1995 | Text | (granting waiver requests)
  • NYNEX
    • NYNEX Telephone Companies Offer of Comparably Efficient Interconnection to Providers of Enhanced Services, 11 FCC Rcd 2419 (Com. Car. Bur. 1996)
    • In the Matter of New York Telephone and Telegraph Company CEI Plan for the Provision of Voice Messaging Services, DA 88-2059, Memorandum Opinion and Order, 4 FCC Rcd. 554, 1989  WL 511523 (Jan 12, 1989)
    • In the Matter of NYNEX Waiver Petition for Enhanced Services Research and Development CC Docket No. 85-229 ORDER 2 FCC Rcd. 6560 Adopted:  October 15, 1987;  Released:  October 30, 1987

 

Test Your Knowledge

Papers

• Draft: Where ISPs and Telephone Companies Compete:  A Guide to the Computer Inquiries, Enhanced Service Providers and Information Service Providers (March 2001) | Word | Published in Commlaw Conspectus and TPRC Proceedings 2000.
• FCC OPP Working Paper 31. The FCC and the Unregulation of the Internet by Jason Oxman, Counsel for Advanced Communications; July, 1999. [ Text  | Word97  | Acrobat ]
• FCC OPP Working Paper 29. Digital Tornado: The Internet and Telecommunications Policy by Kevin Werbach; March 1997, NTIS PB97 161905.
• NIST CSRC The Impact of FCC's Open Network Architecture on NS/NP Telecom Security 1995
• Steve Bickerstaff, Shackles on the Giant: How the Federal Government Created Microsoft, Personal Computers and the Internet, 78 Tex. L. Rev. 1 (1999)
• Gerald Brock, Telecommunications Policy for the Information Age: from Monopoly to Competition, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1994
• Delbert D. Smith, The Interdependence Of Computer And Communications Services And Facilities: A Question Of Federal Regulation, 117 U. Pa. L. Rev. 829 (April, 1969).
• Jonathan Weinberg, The Internet and “Telecommunications Services,” Universal Service Mechanisms, Access Charges, and Other Flotsam of the Regulatory System, 16 YALE J. ON REG. 211, 222 (1999) (“That approach was wildly successful in spurring innovation and competition in the enhanced-services marketplace: Government maintained its control of the underlying transport, sold primarily by regulated monopolies, while
  eschewing any control over the newfangled, competitive ‘enhancements.’”).

Notes

Basic Requirement: For BOCs as dominant carriers, the separate transmission service must be offered via tariff.
77 FCC 2d 384, 475 (1980); 16 FCC Rcd 7418 paras 42-44 (2001)
Description:

While BOCs can market telecom services w enhanced (information) services, the telecom services component must be offered separately to competitive ISPs

Terms must be tariffed and non-discriminatory as btw affiliated and competitive ISPs

Terms of service are subject to pre-effective regulatory review, including pricing, other terms of service.

- Ex Parte Presentation of Earthlink, MCI and AOLTW, Summary of FCC's Computer Inquiry Requirements, CC Docket Nos 02-33, 95-30, 98-10 (April 30, 2003)

Comparably Efficient Interconnection

Ex Parte Presentation of Earthlink, MCI and AOLTW:

Basic Requirement: Interface Functionality
Description:

The BOC must make available standardized hardware/software interfaces to support transmission, switching and signaling functions identical to those used by the BOC's ISPs.

Ensures competitive ISPs know what interfaces are necessary to connect to the BOC network.

104 FCC2d 958 (1986); 14 FCC Rcd 4289, 4298 (1999)

Basic Requirement: Unbundling of basic service
Description

The BOC must offer basic transmission service separately from the information service under tariff (ie same as Computer II rule above)

Also, basic service features of transmission service used by carriers ISP must also be offered separately and pursuant to tariff

Ensures that an ISP can purchase the underlying telecom services

104 FCC 2d 958, 1036, 1040 (1986); 14 FCC Rcd 4289, 4298 (1999)

Basic Requirement: Resale of basic services
Description

Same as Computer II rule

Designed to prevent improper cost shifting and anticompetitive pricing in unregulated markets as well as that BOC and non-BOC ISPs pay the same amounts for the underlying  BOC telecom services

104 FCC 2d 958, 1040 (1986); 14 FCC Rcd 4289, 4298 (1999)

Basic Requirement: Technical Characteristics
Description:

Technical characteristics (including bandwidth, bit rates, bit error rates, delay distortions and reliability issues such as mean time between failures, etc.) of transmission service must be equal for all ISPs.

Ensures that competitive ISPs receive telecom services equal in quality to those which the BOC's customers receive.

104 FCC 2d 958, 1036, 1040 (1986); 14 FCC Rcd 4289, 4298 (1999)

Basic Requirement: Installation, maintenance and repair
Description:

Time periods for installation, maintenance and repair carrier's ISP and other ISPs must be the same

Ensures that competitive ISPs can offer their customers support services equal in quality as BOC customers receive

104 FCC 2d 958, 1041 (1986); 14 FCC Rcd 4289, 4298 (1999)

- Ex Parte Presentation of Earthlink, MCI and AOLTW, Summary of FCC's Computer Inquiry Requirements, CC Docket Nos 02-33, 95-30, 98-10 (April 30, 2003)

News

• Structural Separation Legislation in Minnesota, AISPA 2/11/02
• Competitors seek to split Verizon wholesale and retail units - again, NWFusion 4/11/01
• Supreme Court Won't Revive Suit Against AOL Oct 2, 2000 (ISPs are not common carriers) techserver
• Supreme Court sides with AOL in subscriber suit Oct 2, 2000 cnet
• SBC Delays Prompt DSL Suspension Aug 3, 2000 internetnews
• SBC Gives Compaqs Away July 10, 2000 cnn
• SBC Offers High-Speed Internet Package July 10, 2000 internetnews
• SBC offers PCs to DSL customers July 10, 2000 cnet
• Compaq, 2 phone companies begin high-speed Internet promotion July 10, 2000 nandotimes
• SBC Offers Free PCs To Boost DSL Usage July 10, 2000 zdnet
• Bell Atlantic mulls ways to keep GTE Net unit C|NET 12/3
• BellSouth.net Widens Service Area Internetnews 11/9/99