[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 177 (Wednesday, September 14, 2005)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 54300-54301]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-18255]


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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

47 CFR Part 64

[CG Docket No. 02-386; FCC 05-29]


Rules and Regulations Implementing Minimum Customer Account 
Record Exchange Obligations on All Local and Interexchange Carriers; 
Correction

AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.

ACTION: Final rule; correction.

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SUMMARY: On June 2, 2005 (70 FR 32258), the Commission published a 
final rule in the Federal Register, which adopted new rules to 
facilitate the exchange of customer account information between Local 
Exchange Carriers (LECs) and Interexchange Carriers (IXCs) and to 
establish carriers' responsibilities with respect to such exchanges. 
This document corrects the instances in the Federal Register which an 
IXC-initiated PIC Order is referred to as a Report and Order.

DATES: The rules in this document contain information collection 
requirements that have not been approved by the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB). The Commission will publish a document in the Federal 
Register announcing the effective date for these rules. Written 
comments by the public on the new and modified information collections 
are due October 14, 2005.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lisa Boehley, Consumer & Governmental 
Affairs Bureau at (202) 418-2512 (voice), or e-mail 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Federal Communications Commission 
published a document adopting new rules to facilitate the exchange of 
customer account information between Local Exchange Carriers (LECs) and 
Interexchange Carriers (IXCs). In the Federal Register document 05-
10974 published on June 2, 2005 (70 FR 32258) make the following 
corrections:
    1. On page 32259, under the Supplementary Information in the first 
column on line 30, PIC Report and Order is corrected to read as PIC 
Order and wherever it appears in the Supplementary Information.
    2. In Sec.  64.4002, the introductory text, paragraphs (a) 
introductory text, (b) introductory text, (b) (6), (c) introductory 
text; and (d) introductory text are corrected to read as follows:


Sec.  64.4002  Notification obligations of LECs.

    To the extent that the information is reasonably available to a 
LEC, the LEC shall provide to an IXC the customer account information 
described in this section consistent with Sec.  64.4004. Nothing in 
this section shall prevent a LEC from providing additional customer 
account information to an IXC to the extent that such additional 
information is necessary for billing purposes or to properly execute a 
customer's PIC Order.
    (a) Customer-submitted PIC Order. Upon receiving and processing a 
PIC selection submitted by a customer and placing the customer on the 
network of the customer's preferred interexchange carrier at the LEC's 
local switch, the LEC must notify the IXC of this event. The 
notification provided by the LEC to the IXC must contain all of the 
customer account information necessary to allow for proper billing of 
the customer by the IXC including but not limited to:
* * * * *
    (b) Confirmation of IXC-submitted PIC Order. When a LEC has placed 
a customer on an IXC's network at the local switch in response to an 
IXC-submitted PIC Order, the LEC must send a confirmation to the 
submitting IXC. The confirmation provided by the LEC to the IXC must 
include:
* * * * *
    (6) The carrier identification code of the submitting LEC. If the 
PIC Order at issue originally was submitted by an underlying IXC on 
behalf of a toll reseller, the confirmation provided by the LEC to the 
IXC must indicate, to the extent that this information is known, a 
statement indicating that the customer's PIC is a toll reseller.
    (c) Rejection of IXC-submitted PIC Order. When a LEC rejects or 
otherwise does not act upon a PIC Report and Order submitted to it by 
an IXC, the LEC must notify the IXC and provide the reason(s) why the 
PIC Order could not be processed. The notification provided by the LEC 
to the IXC must state that it has rejected the IXC-submitted PIC Order 
and specify the reason(s) for the rejection (e.g., due to a lack of 
information, incorrect information, or a PIC freeze on the customer's 
account). The notification must contain the identical data elements 
that were provided to the LEC in the original IXC-

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submitted PIC Order (i.e., mirror image of the original Order), unless 
otherwise specified by this subsection. If a LEC rejects an IXC-
submitted PIC Order for a multi-line account (i.e., the customer has 
selected the IXC as his PIC for two or more lines or terminals 
associated with his billing telephone number), the notification 
provided by the LEC rejecting that Order must explain the effect of the 
rejection with respect to each line (working telephone number or 
terminal) associated with the customer's billing telephone number. A 
LEC is not required to generate a line-specific or terminal-specific 
response, however, and may communicate the rejection at the billing 
telephone level, when the LEC is unable to process an entire Order, 
including all working telephone numbers and terminals associated with a 
particular billing telephone number. In addition, the notification must 
indicate the jurisdictional scope of the PIC Order rejection (i.e., 
intraLATA and/or interLATA and/or international). If a LEC rejects a 
PIC Order because:
* * * * *
    (d) Customer contacts LEC or new IXC to cancel PIC. When a LEC has 
removed at its local switch a presubscribed customer from an IXC's 
network, either in response to a customer Order or upon receipt of a 
properly verified PIC Order submitted by another IXC, the LEC must 
notify the customer's former IXC of this event. The LEC must provide to 
the IXC the customer account information that is necessary to allow for 
proper final billing of the customer by the IXC including but not 
limited to:
* * * * *
    3. In Sec.  64.4003, the introductory text, (a) introductory text, 
(a) (2), (a) (3), (b) introductory text, (b) (2) and (b) (3) are 
corrected to read as follows:


Sec.  64.4003  Notification obligations of IXCs.

    To the extent that the information is reasonably available to an 
IXC, the IXC shall provide to a LEC the customer account information 
described in this section consistent with Sec.  64.4004. Nothing in 
this section shall prevent an IXC from providing additional customer 
account information to a LEC to the extent that such additional 
information is necessary for billing purposes or to properly execute a 
customer's PIC Order.
    (a) IXC-submitted PIC Order. When a customer contacts an IXC to 
establish interexchange service on a presubscribed basis, the IXC 
selected must submit the customer's properly verified PIC Order (see 47 
CFR 64.1120(a)) to the customer's LEC, instructing the LEC to install 
or change the PIC for the customer's line(s) to that IXC. The 
notification provided by the IXC to the LEC must contain all of the 
information necessary to properly execute the Order including but not 
limited to:
* * * * *
    (2) The date of the IXC-submitted PIC Order;
    (3) The jurisdictional scope of the PIC Order (i.e, intraLATA and/
or interLATA and/or international); and
* * * * *
    (b) Customer contacts IXC to cancel PIC and to select no-PIC 
status. When an end user customer contacts an IXC to discontinue 
interexchange service on a presubscribed basis, the IXC must confirm 
that it is the customer's desire to have no PIC and, if that is the 
case, the IXC must notify the customer's LEC. The IXC also is 
encouraged to instruct the customer to notify his LEC. An IXC may 
satisfy this requirement by establishing a three-way call with the 
customer and the customer's LEC to confirm that it is the customer's 
desire to have no PIC and, where appropriate, to provide the customer 
the opportunity to withdraw any PIC freeze that may be in place. The 
notification provided by the IXC to the LEC must contain the customer 
account information necessary to properly execute the cancellation 
Order including but not limited to:
* * * * *
    (2) The date of the IXC-submitted PIC removal Order;
    (3) The jurisdictional scope of the PIC removal Order (i.e., 
intraLATA and/or interLATA and/or international); and
* * * * *

Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene H. Dortch,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 05-18255 Filed 9-13-05; 8:45 am]
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