**Released: July 28, 2000**

# FCC Announces Release Of Version of Local Competition and Broadband Reporting Form (FCC Form 477) For September 1, 2000 Filing

DA 00-1669

CC Docket No. 99-301

In this Public Notice, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
announces the release of the September 2000 version of the Local
Competition and Broadband Reporting Form (FCC Form 477) and accompanying
instructions. Providers of broadband services and local telephone
service that meet the defined reporting threshold, described below, must
file the Form 477 no later than September 1, 2000. Data collected
through this program will advance the Commission's efforts to implement
the pro-competitive, deregulatory provisions of the Telecommunications
Act of 1996. Additionally, the information collected assists the
Commission in its Congressionally-mandated inquiries as to whether
"advanced telecommunications capability" is being deployed to all
Americans in a reasonable and timely fashion.[^1]

On March 24, 2000, the FCC adopted the Local Competition and Broadband
Reporting program to determine the extent of local telecommunications
competition and deployment of broadband services.[^2] Initial data were
filed on May 15, 2000. As a result of that filing and after
consultations with many filers, we have made ministerial revisions to
the earlier form to clarify what kinds of data are requested. Filers
should access the Commission's form page at
\<http://www.fcc.gov/formpage.html\> to obtain the revised form and
instructions.

Under the Local Competition and Broadband Reporting program,
facilities-based broadband providers that serve 250 or more broadband
lines in a given state must file a Form 477 for that state.[^3]
Facilities-based providers of broadband services include (but are not
necessarily limited to) incumbent and competitive local exchange
carriers (LECs), cable companies, fixed wireless providers, terrestrial
and satellite mobile wireless providers, Multipoint Distribution Service
(MDS) providers, utilities, and others. The reporting threshold for
broadband reporting is facilities-based firms that provide at least 250
one-way or two-way broadband (in excess of 200 kilobits per second)
service lines or wireless channels in a given state, or have at least
250 one-way or two-way broadband customers in a given state.

In addition, all providers of local telephone service that serve 10,000
or more voice-grade equivalent lines or wireless channels in a given
state must file a Form 477 for that state.[^4] This obligation applies
to both incumbent and competitive LECs and applies without regard to the
type of technology utilized by the LEC in delivering these services and
without regard to the carrier's use of entry strategy (i.e.,
facilities-based, pure resale, or hybrid).

The Form 477 and its instructions are available at the FCC's website
(www.fcc.gov/formspage). Filers must send completed copies of the Form
477 via diskette to the FCC's Industry Analysis Division, as explained
in the Instructions, no later than September 1, 2000. For additional
guidance, filers may wish to consult previously-released Frequently
Asked Questions (FAQs) sheets, which are also available on the FCC's
website (at www.fcc.gov/broadband/data).

For further information, contact Suzanne McCrary or James Zolnierek,
Industry Analysis Division, Common Carrier Bureau, at (202) 418-0940.

[^1]: *See* *Second Inquiry Concerning Deployment of Advanced
    Telecommunications Capability to All Americans in a reasonable and
    Timely fashion, and Possible Steps to Accelerate Such Deployment
    Pursuant to Section 706 of the Telecommunications Act of* 1996,
    Notice of Inquiry, FCC 00-57, CC Docket No. 98-146 (rel. Feb. 18,
    2000) (*Second Advanced Telecommunications NOI*).

[^2]: *Local Competition and Broadband Reporting*, Report and Order, FCC
    00-114, CC Docket No. 99-301 (rel. Mar. 30, 2000) (*Data Gathering
    Order*).

[^3]: 47 C.F.R. §§ 1.7000 *et* *seq*.

[^4]: 47 C.F.R. § 43.11.