# Presentation: 699821

## Wireline Competition Bureau2003 – 2004

- Competition, Broadband, and Universal Service in a Dynamic Marketplace

## 					Strategic Goals

- Broadband
- Economic Growth
- Competition
- Universal Service
- Homeland Security
- Modernize the FCC

## 						Broadband

- Voice over the Internet
- December 1, 2003 Forum
- Internet Policy Working Group
- Triennial Review Order
- Broadband Data Collection
- Other Broadband Dockets

## 						Competition

- Markets Opening, Competition Increasing
- Intermodal Local Number Portability
- Joint item with WTB
- TELRIC Notice/Triennial Review Order
- Section 271 Applications
- Economic Development Boosted

## 						Competition

- First Phase of Section 271 Work Completed
- January 15, 2003
- 35 states approved / markets open
- 75% of RBOC access lines
- January 15, 2004
- All eligible states and D.C. approved / markets open
- 100% of RBOC access lines open to competition

## 						CompetitionUniversal Service Advanced

- Contribution Factor Down to 8.7% from High of 9.5%
- E-Rate and Support Portability Forums
- Schools and Libraries Reform
- Rural Health Care
- New rules spur economic development
- Nearly 2x money committed in FY ’02 as FY ’00
- New Framework for Portability of Support
- Ongoing Fed-State Joint Brd Coordination

## 						CompetitionUniversal Service Advanced

- Highest-Ever Level of Telephone Penetration in Households: 95.5%
- Penetration in American Indian Reservations: Progress, But More Needed
- 1990 Census: 46.6%
- First Tabulation based on 2000 Census: 67.9%
- Highest-Ever Level of Internet Access in Public Schools: 99%
- Highest-Ever Level of Internet Access in Public School Instructional Rooms: 92%

**Notes:**
Areas where more progress is needed:  American Indian households living on American Indian Reservations and Off-Reservation Trust Land with telephone service:  67.9% (46.6% in 1990)

## 				Homeland SecurityA WCB Priority

- Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act
- Rural Health Care
- Homeland Security Policy Council Participation
- Service Continuity

## 				Homeland Security

- Emergency Preparedness
- August 14, 2003 power blackout
- 50 million without power
- Coordinated FCC/OET/WCB Response
- OET/NRIC: promoting “best practices”
- Wireline Network Worked
- Handled 300% call volume increase
- Public payphones to the rescue
- Hurricane Isabel
- Section 214 Process

## Power Emergency: Payphones at Work
Payphone Items
Tollgate Order
Dial-Around Compensation NPRM

- Payphone Items
- Tollgate Order
- Dial-Around Compensation NPRM

- Homeland Security

- AP/Wide World Photos

## 				Modernize the FCCWCB Accomplishments

- 177 Orders and Proposed Rulemakings
- Including 75 Commission-level items
- Promoted Competition
- Released 108 Orders and NPRMs
- Advanced Universal Service
- Released 68 Orders and NPRMs, 166 E-Rate Appeals/ Waivers, and 1 Joint Board Recommended Decision
- Protected Service Continuity
- Addressed 96 Section 214 Applications, including 28 bankruptcies (51% fewer bankruptcies than last year)
- 1309 Tariffs Filed
- 242 Congressional Letters Issued

**Notes:**
328 Orders and NPRMs
includes 7 Section 271 Orders
includes 166 E-Rate Appeals
1850 Tariffs Filed
155 Congressional Letters
91 Section 214 Applications Processed
9 Agenda Items
20 Statistical Reports
8 Tariff Investigations
62 FOIA Responses

## 				Modernize the FCCWCB Accomplishments

- Monitored a Dynamic Market
- Released 20 Statistical Reports
- Conducted 2 staff studies
- Electronic ARMIS Initiative
- Eliminated all paper and diskette filings
- ILECs can file ARMIS data over Internet
- Public can access, download filed data
- 10% increase in ARMIS filings in 2003

## 				Modernize the FCCIncreased WCB Efficiency

- 75% Reduction in Backlog since July
- Staff Decreased
- 16 Fewer Attorneys, Economists, Technical and Administrative Staff    (7% Decrease)
- Work Load / Productivity Increased
- 29% More Agenda Items
- 33% More Statistical Reports

## WCB Challenges for 2004and Beyond

- Broadband: Tackle VoIP and wireline broadband
- Competition:  Address network pricing
- Competition and Homeland Security:  Promote universal service; keep reforming administration – rural health care, E-rate
- Competition:  Consider pending forbearance petitions

## WCB Challenges for 2004and Beyond

- Modernize the FCC:  Continue backlog reduction efforts
- Target: No backlog greater than 30 months by year’s end
- Modernize the FCC:  Improve staff workplace and quality of life