[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 103 (Friday, May 28, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30024-30025]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-12932]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
[WC Docket No. 05-337; DA 10-910]
Comment Sought on the Puerto Rico Telephone Company, Inc.
Petition for Reconsideration of the Commission's Universal Service
High-Cost Insular Support Order
AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.
ACTION: Notice; solicitation of comments.
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SUMMARY: In this document, the Wireline Competition Bureau seeks
comment on a petition filed by Puerto Rico Telephone Company, Inc.
(PRTC) requesting that the Commission reconsider its decision declining
to establish a new universal service high-cost support mechanism for
non-rural insular carriers. PRTC says the Commission should
expeditiously reconsider its decision and adopt an insular mechanism
that will provide explicit universal service loop support to address
its elevated costs to deploy wireline infrastructure.
DATES: Interested parties may file comments on the petition for
reconsideration no later than June 14, 2010. Reply comments may be
filed no later than June 22, 2010.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by WC Docket No. 05-337,
by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov.
Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
Federal Communications Commission's Web Site: http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/ecfs2/. Follow the instructions for submitting
comments.
People with Disabilities: Contact the FCC to request
reasonable accommodations (accessible format documents, sign language
interpreters, CART, etc.) by e-mail: [email protected] or phone: (202)
418-0530 or TTY: (202) 418-0432.
For detailed instructions for submitting comments and additional
information on the rulemaking process, see the SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION section of this document.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Katie King or Ted Burmeister,
Telecommunications Access Policy Division, Wireline Competition Bureau,
(202) 418-7400, TTY: (202) 418-0484.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In a public notice in this proceeding
released on May 21, 2010, the Wireline Competition Bureau invites
interested parties to comment on a petition filed by Puerto Rico
Telephone Company, Inc. (PRTC) requesting that the Commission
reconsider its decision declining to establish a new universal service
high-cost support mechanism for non-rural insular carriers. In an order
in WC Docket No. 05-337, CC Docket No. 96-45, and WC Docket No. 03-109
(75 FR 25113, May 7, 2010), the Commission concluded that dramatic
increases in telephone subscribership in Puerto Rico over the last
several years made it unnecessary to adopt a new high-cost support
mechanism for non-rural insular carriers as proposed by PRTC.
Pursuant to Sec. Sec. 1.415 and 1.419 of the Commission's rules,
47 CFR 1.415, 1.419, interested parties may file comments and reply
comments on or
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before the dates indicated on the first page of this document. Comments
may be filed using: (1) The Commission's Electronic Comment Filing
System (ECFS), (2) the Federal Government's eRulemaking Portal, or (3)
by filing paper copies. See Electronic Filing of Documents in
Rulemaking Proceedings, 63 FR 24121, May 1, 1998.
Electronic Filers: Comments may be filed electronically
using the Internet by accessing the ECFS: http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/ecfs/
or the Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. Filers
should follow the instructions provided on the Web site for submitting
comments.
Paper Filers: Parties who choose to file by paper must
file an original and four copies of each filing. If more than one
docket or rulemaking number appears in the caption of this proceeding,
filers must submit two additional copies for each additional docket or
rulemaking number.
Filings can be sent by hand or messenger delivery, by commercial
overnight courier, or by first-class or overnight U.S. Postal Service
mail (although we continue to experience delays in receiving U.S.
Postal Service mail). All filings must be addressed to the Commission's
Secretary, Office of the Secretary, Federal Communications Commission.
[cir] All hand-delivered or messenger-delivered paper filings for
the Commission's Secretary must be delivered to FCC Headquarters at 445
12th St., SW., Room TW-A325, Washington, DC 20554. The filing hours are
8 a.m. to 7 p.m. All hand deliveries must be held together with rubber
bands or fasteners. Any envelopes must be disposed of before entering
the building.
[cir] Commercial overnight mail (other than U.S. Postal Service
Express Mail and Priority Mail) must be sent to 9300 East Hampton
Drive, Capitol Heights, MD 20743.
[cir] U.S. Postal Service first-class, Express, and Priority mail
should be addressed to 445 12th Street, SW., Washington, DC 20554.
In addition, one copy of each pleading must be sent to each of the
following:
The Commission's duplicating contractor, Best Copy and
Printing, Inc, 445 12th Street, SW., Room CY-B402, Washington, DC
20554; Web site: http://www.bcpiweb.com; phone: 1-800-378-3160; and
Charles Tyler, Telecommunications Access Policy Division,
Wireline Competition Bureau, 445 12th Street, SW., Room 5-A452,
Washington, DC 20554; e-mail: [email protected].
People with Disabilities: To request materials in accessible
formats for people with disabilities (Braille, large print, electronic
files, audio format), send an e-mail to [email protected] or call the
Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau at (202) 418-0530 (voice) or
(202) 418-0432 (TTY). Contact the FCC to request reasonable
accommodations for filing comments (accessible format documents, sign
language interpreters, CART, etc.) by e-mail: [email protected]; phone:
(202) 418-0530 or (202) 418-0432 (TTY).
Filings and comments are also available for public inspection and
copying during regular business hours at the FCC Reference Information
Center, Portals II, 445 12th Street, SW., Room CY-A257, Washington, DC
20554. Copies may also be purchased from the Commission's duplicating
contractor, BCPI, 445 12th Street, SW., Room CY-B402, Washington, DC
20554. Customers may contact BCPI through its Web site:
www.bcpiweb.com, by e-mail at [email protected], by telephone at (202)
488-5300 or (800) 378-3160 (voice), (202) 488-5562 (TTY), or by
facsimile at (202) 488-5563.
Jennifer K. McKee,
Acting Division Chief, Telecommunications Access Policy Division,
Federal Communications Commission.
[FR Doc. 2010-12932 Filed 5-27-10; 8:45 am]
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