800 Data Base Access Tariffs and the 800 Service Management System Tariff; Provision of 800 Services

On September 26, 1996, the Commission adopted a Report and Order that concludes and terminates an investigation into tariffs filed by local exchange carriers (LECs) in March 1993, for 800 data base services. This Order requires LECs that filed tariffs for 800 data base services in accordance with the Commission's rules in CC Docket No. 86- 10, to recalculate their price cap indexes and resubmit their tariffs. In the Order, we examine terms and conditions of the LECs' tariffs for compliance with various Commission Orders concerning 800 data base service. We also determine the reasonableness of the price cap LECs' restructure of their 800 data base service rates, the reasonableness of certain exogenous costs claimed by those LECs and the allocation of those exogenous costs between the interstate and intrastate jurisdictions. With regard to the Bell Operating Companies' (BOC) central data base service tariff, we determine the reasonableness of a number of tariff provisions as well as the reasonableness of the costs and cost allocations underlying the BOCs' rates for that service. Finally, in this Order we deny an application for review filed by several LECs seeking reversal of the cost disclosure requirements imposed by the Bureau in this investigation and we grant GTE's revised petition for waiver of the cost disclosure requirements. By issuing this Order, the Commission intended to bring tariffs filed by LECs and BOCs into compliance with the requirements of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, the Commission's rules and the policies adopted for 800 data base services in CC Docket 86-10.