# Bell Operating Companies' Joint Petition for Waiver of Computer II Rules
> **Federal Communications Commission** · Memorandum Opinion and Order. · Published 1995-02-07 · Effective 1995-01-13 · 60 FR 7131
## Document
- **Document number:** 95-2948
- **Category:** telecom-common-carrier
- **Federal Register citation:** 60 FR 7131
- **CFR reference:** 47 CFR 64
- **Publication date:** 1995-02-07
- **Effective date:** 1995-01-13
- **FCC docket:** DA 95-36
## Abstract

On October 18, 1994, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit remanded in part the Commission's BOC Safeguards Order (57 FR 4373 (February 5, 1992)), which had established procedures for the Bell Operating Companies (BOCs) to offer enhanced services on a structurally integrated basis. This Memorandum Opinion and Order concluded that, because the Ninth Circuit decision generally returned the regulation of BOC enhanced services to a Comparably Efficient Interconnection (CEI) plan framework, waivers would only be necessary for new enhanced services or market trials, and for those existing services and market trials that were not covered by previously-approved CEI plans. In order to avoid possible service disruptions and customer confusion, the Common Carrier Bureau clarified the requirements for BOC provision of enhanced services, and granted the BOCs any necessary interim waivers to: Provide existing enhanced services pursuant to CEI plans approved prior to the lifting of structural separation; continue providing other existing enhanced services, pending FCC review of CEI plans for those services; file CEI plans for any new enhanced services; continue to perform research and planning activities and technical trials for enhanced services; continue existing market trials, conditioned on their filing the market trial notification required under the CEI plan regime; and begin market trials of new enhanced services pursuant to the market trial requirements of the CEI plan regime.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1995/02/07/95-2948/bell-operating-companies-joint-petition-for-waiver-of-computer-ii-rules)
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