# Implementation of the Rate Integration Requirement of the Communications Act, Petitions for Forbearance
> **Federal Communications Commission** · Final rule; petition for reconsideration. · Published 1999-02-02 · Effective 1999-03-04 · 64 FR 4999
## Document
- **Document number:** 99-2407
- **Category:** other
- **Federal Register citation:** 64 FR 4999
- **CFR reference:** 47 CFR 64
- **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.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/1999/02/02/99-2407/implementation-of-the-rate-integration-requirement-of-the-communications-act-petitions-for)
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