**PUBLIC NOTICE**![](media/image1.png){width="0.6541666666666667in"
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**Federal Communications Commission**

**445 12th St., S.W.**

**Washington, D.C. 20554**

**DA 00-2794**

**COMMISSION SEEKS COMMENT ON**

**PETITION FOR CONDITIONAL WAIVER FILED BY BELLSOUTH**

# CC Docket No. 98-147

## Released: December 11, 2000

### Comments: December 28, 2000

### Reply Comments: Waived

> On December 1, 2000, BellSouth Corporation and BellSouth
> Telecommunications, Inc. (BellSouth) filed a petition for conditional
> waiver of certain requirements adopted in *Deployment of Wireline
> Services Offering Advanced Telecommunications Capability*, Order on
> Reconsideration, FCC 00-297 (rel. Aug 10, 2000) (*Collocation
> Reconsideration Order*).
>
> The *Collocation Reconsideration Order* requires incumbent local
> exchange carriers (incumbent LECs) to provision physical collocation
> arrangements within 90 days of receiving an acceptable collocation
> application, except to the extent a state sets its own standards or a
> requesting carrier and an incumbent LEC agree to an alternative
> standard. BellSouth requests a conditional waiver of that 90-day
> interval similar to the waivers granted to Verizon Telephone Companies
> (Verizon) and SBC Communications Inc. (SBC) in *Deployment of Wireline
> Services Offering Advanced Telecommunications Capability*, CC Docket
> No. 98-147, *Memorandum Opinion and Order*, DA 00-2528 (Com. Car.
> Bur., Nov. 7, 2000) (*Collocation Waiver Order*). BellSouth states
> that if the Commission grants BellSouth's waiver request, BellSouth
> will apply the application processing and provisioning intervals that
> the *Collocation Waiver Order* approved for Verizon and SBC to
> collocation requests arising in the three states in the BellSouth
> region in which the state commission has not prescribed collocation
> intervals.
>
> Interested parties may file comments regarding BellSouth petition for
> conditional waiver no later than **December 28, 2000**. We waive
> section 1.45 of the Commission's rules insofar as it permits reply
> comments. All filings regarding the petitions for conditional waiver
> should reference the Common Carrier Bureau docket assigned to this
> proceeding, CC Docket No. 98-147.
>
> Comments filed through the ECFS can be sent as an electronic file via
> the Internet to <http://www.fcc.gov/e-file/efcs.html>. Generally, only
> one copy of an electronic submission must be filed. If multiple docket
> or rulemaking numbers appear in the caption of this proceeding,
> however, commenters must transmit one electronic copy of the comments
> for each docket or rulemaking number referenced in the caption. In
> completing the transmittal screen, commenters should include their
> full name, Postal Service mailing address, and the applicable docket
> or rulemaking number. Parties may also submit an electronic comment by
> Internet e-mail. To get filing instructions for e-mail comments,
> commenters should send an e-mail to <efcs@fcc.gov>, and should include
> the following words in the body of the message, "get form \<your
> e-mail address\>." A sample form and directions will be sent in reply.
>
> We will treat this proceeding as "permit but disclose" for purposes of
> the Commission's *ex parte* rules. *See generally* 47 C.F.R. §§
> 1.1200-1.1216. Parties making oral *ex parte* presentations are
> reminded that memoranda summarizing the presentation must contain a
> summary of the substance of the presentation and not merely a listing
> of the subjects discussed. More than a one or two sentence description
> of the views and arguments presented is generally required. See 47
> C.F.R. § 1.1206(b)(2), as revised. Other rules pertaining to oral and
> written presentations are set forth in section 1.1206(b) as well.
> Interested parties are to file with the Secretary, FCC, and serve
> Janice M. Myles and ITS, with copies of any written ex parte
> presentations or summaries of oral ex parte presentations in these
> proceedings in the manner specified above.
>
> For further information, contact Janice M. Myles, Policy and Program
> Planning Division, Common Carrier Bureau, at (202) 418-1580, e-mail
> <jmyles@fcc.gov>.

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