Access Charge Reform; Price Cap Performance Review for Local Exchange Carriers; Petition of U S West Communications, Inc. for Forbearance From Regulation as a Dominant Carrier in the Phoenix, AZ MSA; Interexchange Carrier Purchases of Switched Access Services Offered by Competitive Local Exchange Carriers
other · Federal Communications Commission · Published 1999-09-22 · Effective 1999-10-22 · 64 FR 51258
Document
Document number
99-24141
Federal Register citation
64 FR 51258
Type
Rule
Action
Final rule.
Category
other
Publication date
1999-09-22
Effective date
1999-10-22
FCC docket
CC Docket Nos. 96-262, 94-1, 98-157
Abstract
This document revises the rules that govern the provision of interstate access services by those incumbent local exchange carriers subject to price cap regulation to advance the pro-competitive, de- regulatory national policies embodied in the Telecommunications Act of 1996. With these revisions, the Commission continues the process it began in 1997 to reform the regulation of interstate access charges in order to accelerate the development of competition in all telecommunications markets and to ensure that the Commission's own regulations do not unduly interfere with the operation of these markets as competition develops.