Implementation of the Rate Integration Requirement of the Communications Act, Petitions for Forbearance
other · Federal Communications Commission · Published 1999-02-02 · Effective 1999-03-04 · 64 FR 4999
Document
Document number
99-2407
Federal Register citation
64 FR 4999
CFR reference
47 CFR 64
Type
Rule
Action
Final rule; petition for reconsideration.
Category
other
Publication date
1999-02-02
Effective date
1999-03-04
FCC docket
CC Docket No. 96-61
Abstract
By this Memorandum Opinion and Order (Order), the Commission reaffirms its earlier determination that the rate integration requirement of the Communications Act apply to interstate, interexchange services offered by commercial mobile radio service (CMRS) providers, and therefore denied the petitions for reconsideration of that determination. The Commission clarified that CMRS traffic within a major trading area (MTA)(intra-MTA traffic) is not ``interexchange'' traffic and thus not subject to the rate integration requirements of section 254(g). The Commission denied the petitions seeking forbearance from the application of rate integration to CMRS providers. This carries out the intent of Congress that providers of interstate, interexchange services offer such services at integrated rates.