The FCC adopted rule changes proposed by the Wireline Bureau in 2...
The FCC adopted rule changes proposed by the Wireline Bureau in 2004 in a biennial review required by the Telecom Act. Many were tweaks eliminating outdated language and expired deadlines or updating definitions. In interconnection rules, a reference to…
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providing the bureau chief “paper and diskette copies” was dropped. Under numbering rules, American Samoa now is listed among U.S. territories participating in the N. American Numbering Plan. But the FCC didn’t make some proposed changes. Civil rights groups convinced the FCC it should keep requiring common carrier licensees to file annual employment reports intended to reveal employment bias. The Rural Telecom Group (RTG) convinced the FCC not to drop some local number portability (LNP) transitional measures, though in many areas LNP deadlines have passed. RTG reminded the FCC that some rural telecom companies haven’t yet gotten a request to deploy LNP, so the measures should be kept in case those companies must deploy LNP. But USTelecom didn’t convince the FCC to eliminate carrier recordkeeping requirements the group calls outdated. The FCC said USTelecom hadn’t proposed less costly ways to collect and maintain records.