Petition for Rulemaking to Reclassify AT&T Corp. as Having Dominant Carrier Status

The Order on Reconsideration, Order Denying Petition for Rulemaking, and Second Order on Reconsideration in CC Docket No. 96-61 (Order) released October 9, 1997 finds no new evidence or arguments that demonstrate that a new examination of AT&T's regulatory status is warranted. The Order also finds no basis to impose on AT&T a service requirement not imposed on other carriers subject to the rate averaging and rate integration rules, and that the Commission properly included AT&T/Alascom within the scope of the reclassification of AT&T as non- dominant in the provision of interstate, domestic, interexchange services. Finally, the Order clarifies that, to the extent AT&T/Alascom has been found to be dominant in the provision of certain interstate common carrier services (which the Commission has previously defined as ``all interstate interexchange transport and switching services that are necessary for other interexchange carriers to provide services in Alaska up to the point of interconnection with each Alaska local exchange carrier.''), AT&T/Alascom's regulatory obligations with respect to those services remain unchanged.