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$// MO&O, Reporting Requirements on Video Dialtone Costs, DA
95-2036 //$
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                             FOR RECORD ONLY
                               Before the
                    FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
                         Washington, D.C. 20554
In the Matter of                        )
                                   )
Reporting Requirements on Video Dialtone     )    DA 95-2036
Costs and Jurisdictional Separations for          )         AAD
No. 95-59
Local Exchange Carriers Offering             )
Video Dialtone Services                 )
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
                   Adopted:  September 29, 1995;      Released:
September 29, 1995
By the Chief, Common Carrier Bureau:
I.  INTRODUCTION
                            1.   In the Video Dialtone
Reconsideration Order ("VDT Recon Order"), the
Commission required that local exchange carriers ("LECs")
establish subsidiary accounting
records to capture the costs and revenue arising from the
provision of video dialtone service
("VDT").  In that order, the Commission also delegated authority
to the Common Carrier
Bureau ("Bureau") to determine the content and format of the
subsidiary accounting records and
quarterly reports for VDT.  On June 23, 1995, the Bureau released
an Order Inviting Comments
that solicited comment on the proposed content and format of the
reports LECs must file.  In
this Order, we adopt and implement the reporting requirements
proposed by the OIC with certain
modifications designed to reduce the LECs' reporting burden.  The
reports we adopt in this
Order include the following: (i) a quarterly report that would
contain wholly dedicated and
shared VDT cost captured in subsidiary accounting records; and
(ii) an expanded fourth quarter
report that would contain VDT cost and revenue data disaggregated
by regulated and
nonregulated classifications and by jurisdictional categories.
Reporting requirements defined
in this item apply to all LECs offering VDT market or technical
trials as well as commercial
VDT.  We also require LECs to include in the expanded fourth
quarter report data that would
enable the Commission to monitor the impact of VDT on local
telephone rates.  In addition, we
adopt streamlined reporting requirements for LECs' VDT planning
and development costs that
are incurred by carriers prior to receiving Section 214
authorization to provide VDT in a study
area.  Finally, we make certain modifications to our previously
proposed reporting requirements.
II. BACKGR  OUND
          2.   Beginning in 1991, the Commission adopted policies
and rules to permit
LECs to assume an expanded role in the provision of video
services in their telephone service
areas.  In its 1991 and 1992 orders, the Commission established a
regulatory framework called
"video dialtone" enabling telephone companies to deliver video
programming on a common
carrier basis and provide various VDT-related nonregulated
services, consistent with the cross-
ownership restrictions imposed by the Cable Communications Policy
Act of 1984 ("1984 Cable
Act").
          3.   On November 7, 1994, the Commission issued the VDT
Recon Order.  In
that Order, the Commission reaffirmed the basic framework adopted
in the Second Report and
Order, and, among other things, set forth accounting and
reporting requirements for LECs that
offer VDT.  In the VDT Recon Order, the Commission required
carriers offering VDT to
establish two sets of subsidiary accounting records:  one to
capture the investment, expense, and
revenue wholly dedicated to VDT; the other to capture the
investment, expense, and revenue
shared between VDT and other services.  The Commission also
required LECs authorized to
provide VDT to file summaries of these subsidiary accounting
records with the Commission on
a quarterly basis.  The Commission stated that LECs would be
required to file VDT quarterly
reports as a condition of their Section 214 authorization.  The
Commission delegated to the
Bureau the authority to determine the content and format of the
VDT subsidiary accounting
records and the quarterly reports.  In addition, the Commission
directed the Bureau to develop
a data collection program to track the impact of VDT on both
local telephone rates and the
results of the jurisdictional separations process.
          4.   On June 23, 1995, the Bureau issued an Order
Inviting Comments (OIC)
soliciting comments on the proposed content and format of the
reports LECs must file under the
Commission's VDT Recon Order, when providing VDT.  The OIC also
proposed to implement
a data collection program to measure the impact of VDT on local
telephone rates and the
jurisdictional separations process.
III.  DISCUSSION
A.   Goals of the Reporting Requirements
          5.   The reporting requirements we adopt today are
designed to advance two
important Commission goals.  First, we establish a data
collection system that is necessary to
ensure that telephone ratepayers do not bear the costs of VDT and
that would also help to protect
cable operators from potential LEC anti-competitive conduct.
These data will be especially
useful during the tariff review process.  In crafting these
uniform VDT reporting requirements,
we seek to implement the requirements enunciated in the
Commission's VDT Recon Order in a
manner that is least burdensome on carriers.  In every LEC
monitoring program, we balance
our informational needs against the costs and burdens LEC
compliance with these informational
requests impose.  We seek the minimal reporting requirement that
will enable us to meet our
statutory responsibilities.  This has caused us to re-evaluate
the reporting requirements proposed
in the OIC and eliminate those data that we determined are not
essential to meet the
Commission's goals of protecting telephone ratepayers and
preventing anti-competitive activities.
Our re-evaluation was made after reviewing comments made by LECs
and their trade
associations that asserted that the proposed reporting
requirements in the OIC were too
burdensome and over-regulatory and comments offered by the cable
industry, their trade
associations, and several representatives of states' interests
that found our proposed reports to
be not burdensome and in need of expansion.  We believe that the
reporting requirements we
adopt herein strike an appropriate balance between these
conflicting positions.
B.   RAO Letter 25
          6.    On April 3, 1995, the Bureau's Accounting and
Audits Division issued
RAO Letter 25, which sets forth specific guidelines on the
requirements for accounting
classifications, subsidiary records, and amendments to cost
allocation manuals ("CAMs") for
LECs that receive Section 214 authorization to provide VDT.  In
the OIC, we proposed the
content and format of the reports LECs would file when offering
VDT.  LECs would generate
these reports based on the subsidiary accounting records
prescribed by RAO Letter 25.
BellSouth, GTE, Southwestern Bell, US West, United, and USTA
argue that it is premature for
the Bureau to address the comments and reply comments regarding
the OIC until the pending
Applications for Review of RAO Letter 25 are addressed.  These
commenters believe that the
issues of subsidiary recordkeeping and reporting requirements
require that the Commission first
address the legitimacy of the subsidiary recordkeeping
requirements of RAO Letter 25 before
either the Commission or the Bureau addresses the reporting
requirements proposed by the
Bureau in its OIC.
          7.   In light of the fact that the Commission has
already approved 26 Section
214 applications to provide VDT either commercially or on a trial
basis, we believe that it is
necessary to establish VDT reporting requirements and to receive
information that will enable
the Commission to analyze the VDT operations without delay.  The
information that we would
collect is particularly critical in the tariff review process.
While the Commission, at its
discretion, may modify the subsidiary accounting records provided
in RAO Letter 25, the basic
information needs of the Commission, consistent with the VDT
Recon Order, will not change.
In this Order, therefore, we adopt reporting requirements in
accordance with the Commission's
goals.  We intend to re-evaluate these reporting requirements as
we gain experience in VDT and
will modify the reporting requirements when circumstances allow
us to do so.  In addition, if
the Commission decides to amend the requirements of RAO Letter 25
in such a way that will
affect the VDT reporting requirements, we will modify our
reporting requirements accordingly.
In the meantime, we believe it is paramount that we receive the
VDT reports as adopted herein.
C.    Modifications to Proposed Reporting Requirements
     1. Carrier Proposed Structural Changes
          8.   In the OIC, we proposed the format and content of
quarterly and annual
VDT reports.  Bell Atlantic, NYNEX, and Southwestern Bell argue
that the Bureau should
amend its proposed VDT reporting requirements; each submitted
alternative reporting
requirements for consideration.  Bell Atlantic proposed to
replace the annual report and quarterly
reports contained in the OIC with one report consisting of four
columns that would present total
dedicated VDT costs, total shared costs, VDT portion of shared
costs, and fully distributed costs
to VDT.  Only the last column of Bell Atlantic's proposed report
would provide cost data after
the jurisdictional separations process.  Bell Atlantic claims
that this column would represent the
fully distributed cost allocations resulting from applying Parts
36 and 69 of the Commission's
cost allocation rules to wholly dedicated and shared VDT costs.
Bell Atlantic's proposed
report would also contain only 30 lines in contrast to the 64
lines and 67 lines in the OIC's
proposed quarterly and annual report.  In the three columns
relating to unseparated data, Bell
Atlantic would enter data on only two of their 30 lines that
represent categories of costs and
revenues.  Bell Atlantic claims that its proposed report would be
consistent with the
requirements specified in the VDT Recon Order and that it would
be easier to prepare.
          9.   NYNEX argues that the Bureau's proposed VDT
reports are premature and
unnecessarily formal and detailed.  NYNEX contends that, because
VDT is in its infancy, the
Bureau should create a more informal report.  NYNEX proposes
changes to the quarterly
report that would eliminate certain line items related to federal
income taxes, other operating
items, nonoperating items, and certain revenue detail.  NYNEX
also proposes to include
additional detail regarding shared costs.  Instead of reporting
all shared costs in one column as
the OIC proposed, NYNEX proposes to disaggregate shared costs
into two separate categories
based upon whether those costs are identified by field reporting
codes.
          10.  Southwestern Bell proposes quarterly reports in
addition to an annual
report.  Southwestern Bell's proposed quarterly report contains
the same three columns
proposed by the OIC, except that Southwestern Bell's report would
only provide information for
26 categories of costs and revenues.  For example, its report
would not include line items for
separate revenue categories, non-operating items, and federal,
state and local tax data.
Southwestern Bell's proposed annual report would contain only two
columns: interstate costs
with VDT and interstate costs without VDT.  Southwestern Bell's
annual report does not show
the impact of VDT on the intrastate jurisdiction.
    11.  We have reviewed the reports proposed by Bell Atlantic,
NYNEX and
Southwestern Bell and do not believe that any of the reports
would achieve the Commission's
goals or advance the public interest.  Bell Atlantic's report
only proposes to provide data on 2
of 30 line items with respect to dedicated VDT costs, total
shared costs, and VDT portion of
shared costs.  Bell Atlantic's proposal to eliminate the annual
report would prevent us from
collecting data to gauge the impact of VDT on local telephone
rates.  NYNEX's proposed report
would provide no data with respect to either the separations
process or local telephone rates.
As a result, Bell Atlantic's and NYNEX's reports would not
provide us with the information
necessary to meet the Commission's goals to effectively monitor
VDT implementation to protect
telephone ratepayers from absorbing VDT costs and cable operators
from facing anti-competitive
activities.  We also believe that Southwestern Bell's proposal,
while most similar to our
proposed reporting requirements, is also deficient because it
would fail to provide us with
information concerning the impact of VDT on intrastate
operations.
    12.  We believe that the formats and content of the report we
now adopt are
more comprehensive than that proposed by Southwestern Bell.  We
believe, however, that one
of Southwestern Bell's recommendations with respect to the
incorporation and treatment of Part
36 separations data in our VDT reports has merit.  Southwestern
Bell proposes that we use a
methodology to apply Part 36 jurisdictional cost allocation
procedures to total costs and then to
apply those Part 36 rules to total costs less the costs captured
in the VDT subsidiary records.
Southwestern Bell contends that this approach would provide
information about VDT's impact
on the costs allocated to the interstate jurisdiction.  We
believe that once a LEC has made the
computations suggested by Southwestern Bell, it should be able to
make a reasonable estimate
of the impact on the costs allocated to the intrastate
jurisdiction, which we also require to be
detailed in the fourth quarter report.
    13.  We also believe that we should incorporate one of Bell
Atlantic's
suggestions.  In particular, Bell Atlantic suggests that the
Bureau's report include a column for
the amounts of shared costs and revenues that are allocated to
VDT.  We believe this additional
information would provide information on a quarterly basis that
would further assist the
Commission in the VDT tariff review process by providing
information on a quarterly basis
concerning LECs' total VDT costs, both direct and allocated.  We,
therefore, add a column to
FCC Report 43-09A and FCC Report 43-09B, the VDT Quarterly Report
and Fourth Quarter
Report, that provides data concerning the amount of shared costs
and revenue that are
attributable to VDT.
    2. Service Data
    14.  A number of commenters criticized the OIC for requiring
carriers to
separate investment, expense, and revenue data by service.  NYNEX
states that the Part 36
separations process does not provide for allocations of
investment, expense, reserve, and revenue
categories between jurisdictions by service.  Bell Atlantic
claims that none of the ARMIS
reports require service information and that, by superimposing
separate columns for VDT direct
and shared costs, the proposed reports seek information that does
not exist.  Bell Atlantic also
states that the Commission rejected product-specific accounting
for regulated VDT in the VDT
Recon Order.  BellSouth states that, with its reporting
requirements, the Bureau mistakenly
assumes that the Part 36 process is a cost of service process
where a specific service such as
VDT can be tracked through each and every separations category
and allocation algorithm.
GTE concurs that LECs are not required to record separate types
of investments by technology
for purposes of jurisdictional separations under Part 36.  GTE
also states that the OIC proposes
that certain data be disaggregated at a level more detailed than
that provided in ARMIS or
required by Part 36 separations rules.
          15.  NARUC comments that monitoring LEC infrastructure
improvements is
necessary to achieve the Commission's pro-competitive goals.
NARUC also argues that, to
effectively monitor VDT investments and expenses separately from
telephone service, the
ARMIS report needs to reflect any new technologies used to
provide VDT services.  MCI
states that temporary accounting and reporting requirements are
necessary to allow the
Commission, as well as other interested parties and access
ratepayers, to verify that VDT costs
are not being misallocated to telephony.
          16.  In the VDT Recon Order, the Commission stated that
it was not necessary
to adopt comprehensive, VDT-specific accounting and cost
accounting rules before authorizing
VDT.  The Commission further stated that while it chose not to
amend Parts 32, 64, 36, and
69 of the Commission's rules, adjustments would be needed to fit
VDT into the Commission's
regulatory program.  VDT  subsidiary accounting recordkeeping
requirements are one example
of the type of regulatory adjustment made in order to monitor LEC
development of VDT.
Neither the Commission, nor the Bureau has mandated specific cost
accounting and allocation
rules for VDT.  The Commission is simply requiring LECs to
indicate how they are accounting
for VDT, to identify dedicated and shared VDT costs, and to
disclose the impact of VDT on the
jurisdictional separations process and local telephone rates.
          17.  With respect to those LECs asserting that the
Bureau is requesting data that
do not exist, we again note that RAO Letter 25 has set forth
guidance on the required subsidiary
accounting records that LECs should maintain in order to capture
VDT costs and revenues.
LECs that have already received Section 214 authorization to
provide VDT must comply with
RAO Letter 25's directives on how to capture VDT costs and
revenues in appropriate subsidiary
accounting records.  In addition, we do not mandate any
particular methodology for reporting
the impact of VDT on the separations process.  In response to
comments regarding the need for
VDT specific cost data, we do not, in this Order, revisit the
Commission's decision in the VDT
Recon Order to require LECs to file VDT cost information.  That
issue is beyond the scope of
this proceeding.
     3. Explanations of the Application of Accounting and Cost
Allocation Rules
          18.  In the VDT Recon Order, the Commission directed
the Bureau to require
all LECs to submit detailed explanations of how they are applying
the Commission's accounting
and cost allocation rules to VDT investment and expenses.  MCI
and Comcast claim that the
OIC reporting requirements are insufficient in that they do not
require that LECs fully explain
how they are separating VDT investment and expenses under Part 36
and applying Parts 32, 61,
and 64.
          19.  We disagree with MCI and Comcast that the Bureau
will not receive the
information on the application by LECs of Parts 32, 61, and 64 to
VDT costs and revenue.
First, with respect to Part 32, the Bureau's RAO Letter 25 sets
forth guidance concerning the
subsidiary accounting records required to capture VDT costs and
revenue.  LECs present the
necessary explanations as they comply with the subsidiary
accounting records requirement of
RAO Letter 25.  Second, the Commission has recently adopted the
VDT Price Cap Order which
requires LECs to establish a separate price cap basket for VDT.
This item provides guidance
to LECs on how to apply Part 61 to VDT costs and revenue.
Finally, LECs are required to
amend their cost accounting manuals (CAMs) to reflect both the
regulated and nonregulated costs
incurred in the provision of VDT.  As a result, through the
combination of the RAO Letter 25
subsidiary records, VDT reporting, and CAM amendment processes,
the Bureau will receive
detailed explanations of the application of how the LECs have
applied Parts 32, 61, and 64 to
VDT costs and revenue, as required by the Commission.
          20.  We do, however, agree with MCI and Comcast that
the Bureau is not
receiving information concerning the application of Part 36 to
VDT costs and revenue.
Accordingly, we require that each LEC that has received Section
214 authorization to provide
VDT shall include a detailed explanation of how it is applying
the Part 36 rules to VDT costs
and revenues.  The explanation must be provided in an addendum to
the first quarterly report
that LECs are required to file after the release of this Order.
     4. Fourth Quarter Report
          21.  The OIC proposed that LECs file an annual report
in which they collect
and summarize VDT investment, expense and revenue data
disaggregated by regulated and
nonregulated classifications and also by jurisdictional
categories.  In its reply comments,
BellSouth questions the Bureau's authority to require an annual
report in addition to quarterly
reports.  BellSouth maintains that the VDT Recon Order only
authorized quarterly reports.
          22.  We disagree with BellSouth's argument that the
Bureau lacks the authority
to require an annual report in addition to the quarterly VDT
reports.  The Commission directed
the Bureau to initiate a data collection program to procure data
that would enable the
Commission to measure the impact of VDT on the jurisdictional
separations process and on local
telephone rates.  The Bureau proposed to collect these data
through a single annual report, as
opposed to the proposed four quarterly reports.  Furthermore, as
suggested by Comcast, we
could require the information contained in the proposed annual
report to be filed in each
quarterly report and forego an annual report.
          23.  In response to LEC concerns that the proposed VDT
reports would be
potentially burdensome, we have decided to revise the reporting
requirements proposed in the
OIC.  The OIC had proposed that LECs providing VDT submit one
annual report and four
quarterly reports.  We now modify our original proposal by
adopting a reporting structure that
would require LECs providing VDT to submit three quarterly
reports, prepared on a cumulative
basis in a manner similar to our existing ARMIS Report 43-01, and
an expanded, cumulative
fourth quarter report that would encompass the same annual report
requirements detailed in the
OIC as adjusted herein.  We, thus, no longer require both an
annual report and a fourth quarter
report as proposed by the OIC because we believe our data
collection directives can be achieved
through the use of an expanded fourth quarter report.  As a
result, we believe that our proposed
reporting requirements are consistent with the Commission's
directive and would also satisfy our
goal to reduce LECs' reporting burden.
     5. Specific Line Items
          24.  In the OIC, we proposed to require reporting at a
similar level of detail
to that currently required in the FCC Report 43-01, ARMIS
Quarterly Report. The areas in
which the OIC proposed to require LECs to provide additional data
include: basic local service
revenue for which we proposed three additional line items; and,
plant-in-service, for which we
proposed to disaggregate cable and wire facilities into metallic
cable, non-metallic cable, and
other plant.  The 43-01 data that we proposed to eliminate as a
part of our VDT reporting were
miscellaneous and rate of return data.
          25.  The LECs generally argue that we should eliminate
additional lines of data
because they are not relevant to VDT.  The cable industry and
others argue that additional
detail is necessary.  Based on our review of the record and the
Commission's VDT reporting
goals, we have decided that the level of detail that we currently
employ in FCC Report 43-01,
ARMIS Quarterly Report, is most appropriate for LEC VDT reports.
This level of detail is
specified in Part 32 of the Commission's rules and is generally
equivalent to that which Class
B carriers must provide in their accounting systems.
          26.  After reviewing the record and the Commission's
goals, we have decided
to eliminate lines 1001, 1002, and 1005 of the OIC's proposed
annual report, because we do not
believe our need for the information outweighs the associated LEC
reporting burden.  These
lines are also not included in the FCC Report 43-01.  We would
still receive aggregated revenue
data that is satisfactory for our VDT monitoring needs.  We also
are eliminating lines 1510
through 1550 which, although they are contained in FCC Report
43-01, do not represent
accounts used directly to determine VDT costs.  These lines are
instead used to make federal
income tax calculations, and accordingly, are not needed as a
part of the regular VDT reports.
Finally, we eliminate lines 1110 and 1610, Equal access expenses
and Equal access investment.
These costs are totally unrelated to the provision of VDT and,
therefore, are not needed.
          27.  While we generally adopt the level of detail used
in FCC Report 43-01,
we will require a more disaggregated breakdown for cable and wire
facilities' costs.  We note
that LEC VDT Section 214 applications filed with the Commission
have generally sought
authorization for VDT system architectures based on coaxial and
fiber optics systems.  We are
cognizant that VDT facilities' cost data are an essential
component of the tariff review process.
Consequently, we will not eliminate or modify the line items for
metallic and non-metallic cable
and wire facilities.  We do, however, agree with the LEC
commenters that the mechanics of
our existing Part 36 jurisdictional separations rules make a
disaggregation between metallic and
non-metallic cable costs extremely difficult.  We believe that to
require LECs to report this
information after the separations process would be unnecessarily
burdensome.  We accordingly
change our expanded fourth quarter report to maintain line items
for metallic and non-metallic
wire cable; but we enter "N/A" in the columns of the report that
no longer require LEC data
entries.
     6. Planning and Development Costs
          28.  In the OIC, we solicited comment on whether we
should require LECs
filing Section 214 applications for VDT to make separate filings
identifying the costs associated
with the planning and development of VDT incurred prior to
receiving Section 214
authorization.  Bell Atlantic objects to the proposed planning
and development cost report.
Bell Atlantic argues that the proposed filing represents a new
report and that the Bureau does
not explain the value of this reporting requirement.  GTE states
that this reporting requirement
exceeds the Commission's delegated authority to the Bureau in the
VDT Recon Order.
NYNEX and Bell Atlantic argue that planning and development costs
generally apply to a LEC's
total operations overlapping various Section 214 applications;
and therefore, these costs cannot
be disaggregated to the level of granularity proposed by the
Bureau.  GTE claims that it has
no existing internal mechanisms to identify and track all
planning related costs that involve
VDT.  USTA and Southwestern Bell state that a separate filing to
identify planning and
development costs for each Section 214 authorization is
unnecessary.  USTA also suggests that
LECs can provide this information in the form of a footnote to
the first quarterly report.
          29.  Chronicle and Comcast support the Bureau's OIC
proposal to require LECs
to submit a separate filing for planning and development costs.
Chronicle contends that the
LECs' planning and development costs are substantial and that it
is critical that the Bureau
impose a separate filing requirement.  Comcast states that,
without this separate report, LECs
could include VDT development costs with the costs of regulated
telephone service, and the
Commission would be unable to separate or even identify these
costs in the telephone ratemaking
process.  MCI also endorses the Bureau's reporting requirements
for planning and development
costs because costs associated with VDT platforms are large and
the lead times to build out
systems are lengthy.
          30.  We agree with the LECs that planning and
development costs may benefit
or relate to various Section 214 applications; we do not believe,
however, that these costs should
go unreported.  Planning and development costs are incurred
during the initial stages of any new
service deployment and such costs may be significant.  In the
case of VDT planning and
development, these costs can be incurred prior to the receipt of
a Section 214 authorization to
provide VDT service.  In the VDT Recon Order, the Commission
delegated to the Bureau the
authority to direct LECs to identify all direct and shared VDT
costs in their subsidiary
accounting records.  One of our goals in this proceeding is to
assure that LECs provide
information that meets the Commission's informational
requirements.  Costs associated with
VDT planning and development are among the information needed to
monitor VDT operations
and to assist the Commission in the tariff review process.  We
also need this information in
order to ensure that regulated ratepayers do not absorb the costs
of VDT planning and
development.
          31.  The OIC proposed a requirement that LECs provide
VDT planning and
development costs for each of their Section 214 VDT applications.
LECs generally argue that
most of these costs cannot be identified separately by individual
Section 214 application.  We
agree and therefore will not require that such data be submitted
by each application.
Nevertheless, in order to ensure that no VDT costs are charged to
telephone services, LECs
must identify and segregate all VDT costs from their telephone
service costs.  VDT planning
and development costs clearly require such treatment.  Therefore,
we will require LECs to
identify and file such data.
          32.  We have decided that a separate VDT planning and
development report
is unnecessary and that the required information from LECs can be
obtained in a less
burdensome manner.  We adopt USTA's suggestion that information
concerning planning and
development costs be filed in a footnote to the first quarterly
VDT report submitted pursuant to
this Order for each study area.  That footnote should identify,
by Part 32 account, all costs
associated with the planning and development of VDT that are
incurred prior to the carrier's
receiving the first Section 214 authorization in a study area.
     7. Rounding
          33.  In the OIC, we proposed that LECs report VDT
financial data in amounts
rounded off to the nearest hundred dollar amount instead of the
nearest thousand dollar amount
as currently required in the ARMIS Quarterly Report (43-01).
Bell Atlantic, BellSouth, GTE,
NYNEX, and Southwestern Bell state that rounding to the nearest
hundred dollar amount is
burdensome and would not improve the Commission's ability to
monitor VDT.  Comcast
supports the hundred dollar rounding requirement but suggests
that the amounts should be
reported in thousands with one place to the right of the decimal
point used to indicate
hundreds.
          34.  We are persuaded by the arguments of the
commenters that we can
adequately monitor VDT by receiving reports that round amounts to
the nearest thousand dollars.
This convention is consistent with what we have used for every
other ARMIS Report and we
believe this convention provides detail adequate for our
oversight responsibilities.  As a result,
we require that the amounts included in the quarterly VDT reports
and the fourth quarter VDT
report shall be rounded to the nearest thousand dollar.
     8. Non-financial Data
          35.   Several parties recommend that the reports should
be revised to include
non-financial data.  Colorado recommends that the reports include
the number of basic telephone
subscriber switched access lines in the VDT serving area and an
estimate of the VDT shared
capacity in new and existing plant.  NCTA proposes that the
annual report should contain the
methodology that LECs use to allocate investment and expense
between video and telephony.
NARUC recommends that the reporting requirements for VDT
providers should include items
such as market demographics, statistics on service quality, and
system capabilities.
          36.  In their reply comments, various LECs oppose
expanding the scope or
detail level of the Bureau's proposed reporting requirements.
Bell Atlantic, BellSouth,
Southwestern Bell and US West argue that the level of detail
sought by these commenters exceed
the Commission's information directives included in its VDT Recon
Order.  Southwestern Bell
notes that many of the parties favoring more detailed reporting
are current or future competitors
of LECs.  Bell Atlantic states that cable companies want
telephony data included in the reports;
but that there are few, if any, such reporting requirements for
cable companies that provide
telephony.  The more burdensome the reporting requirements,
Southwestern Bell explains, the
more likely it will be that LECs will choose to provide video
programming as a cable company
under Title VI, rather than to provide VDT subject to Title II
regulation.
          37.       At this time, we adopt none of the
recommendations to expand the VDT
reporting requirements concerning non-financial data.  While
many of the parties' suggestions
would provide more detailed reports on the LECs' VDT operations,
we are concerned that
adoption of these recommendations would render the reporting
requirements unreasonably
burdensome.  We believe the level of reporting we adopt in this
Order will meet our needs for
our monitoring efforts.  We believe that the burden of increasing
the level of reporting to include
all parties' recommendations would outweigh the benefits of the
information collected.
     9.  Service Area Reporting
          38.  The OIC proposed VDT reporting at the study area
level.  Chronicle
asserts that VDT systems are not authorized at the statewide
area.  Each system must be
authorized based on the specific economic and technical
requirements of a particular area.  As
a result, Chronicle maintains that data aggregated to a statewide
or study area level will not
provide the Commission the level of detail necessary to monitor
Section 214 authorizations or
LEC cable franchises meaningfully.  Colorado also requests that
the VDT reports should obtain
information concerning the location in the separation study area
at which the VDT investments
and expenses have been incurred.
          39.  In their reply comments, Bell Atlantic, BellSouth,
and Southwestern Bell
dispute the assertions of Chronicle and Colorado.  Bell Atlantic
claims that the cable companies
propose reports based on service area data that do not exist.
Bell Atlantic does, however, state
that it is not unreasonable to identify by name those wire
centers where VDT investment is
included as suggested by Colorado.  BellSouth states that service
area reporting was rejected
by the Commission in the VDT Recon Order.  Southwestern Bell
believes that service area
reports would provide information to its competitors about where
a LEC invests so that the
competitor can respond effectively to the detected LEC
competition.
          40.  We believe that the expense to the LECs of
providing VDT revenue and
cost data by VDT service area will outweigh the benefits that may
be derived from such
reporting.  There is little question that such data, to the
extent they are known, would be very
useful to the Commission in monitoring the LECs' accounting and
cost allocation processes and
in reviewing VDT tariffs.  Most of the LECs' accounting and cost
allocation processes,
however, operate at the study area level.  As a result, their
accounting systems do not readily
permit the recovery of cost information, VDT or otherwise, at the
VDT service area level.
Furthermore, many of the Section 214 applications cover only a
few thousand homes.  If LECs
decide to provide VDT over their entire study area, they may
establish ten or more VDT service
areas.  To regularly report VDT data for each of these areas
would not appear to be possible.
Therefore, we will not require it.  Instead, we will require
reporting of VDT data by study area,
as most ARMIS data are currently reported.
           41.      We, however, agree with Colorado that
information concerning the
location of a LEC's individual service areas would be useful and,
as Bell Atlantic suggests, not
unduly burdensome.  As a result, we require that LECs disclose,
in a footnote to each quarterly
report, the number and locations of Section 214 authorizations to
provide VDT within the
relevant study area, a brief description of each VDT service
area, the location by name or code
number of the wire centers serving each area, and the total
number of homes passed by each
VDT systems.
D.   Confidentiality
     1. Nonregulated Sections of the Reports
          42.  In the OIC, we proposed that LECs file an annual
VDT report that would
collect and summarize the LECs' VDT investment, expense, and
revenue data disaggregated by
regulated and nonregulated classifications.  GTE states that
nonregulated services are competitive
and should not be subject to public disclosure.  NYNEX and
Southwestern Bell also cite the
proprietary concerns regarding competitive services data.
          43.  We agree with GTE, NYNEX, and Southwestern Bell
that nonregulated
services are competitive; however, we are not persuaded that any
portion of the VDT reports
should be kept confidential.  The information contained in the
VDT reports would be aggregated
data covering all VDT nonregulated services.  No disaggregation
by separate nonregulated
services is required.  As a result, there is no danger that a
LEC's competitor for one
nonregulated service will obtain information that can be used to
place that LEC in a competitive
disadvantage.
          44.  We intend to include LEC VDT reports in the ARMIS
database and we
will make these reports available to the public in the same
manner as we do other ARMIS
Reports.  If LECs believe that they will experience competitive
harm through the release to the
public of information contained in the reports, they should
follow the procedures established in
the Commission's rules to request the confidentiality of such
information.
     2. Product-specific Reporting
          45.  USTA, US West, Bell Atlantic, GTE, and
Southwestern Bell criticize the
OIC proposals by claiming that they would amount to product
specific reporting for nonregulated
activities.  USTA and US West cite the Commission's Joint Cost
Order that states that the
pricing for nonregulated products and services is outside the
Commission's statutory mandate.
          46.  The Joint Cost Order specifically stated that the
purpose of our cost
allocation rules is to make sure that all of the costs of
nonregulated activities are removed from
both the rate base and allowable expenses for interstate
regulated services.  Our cost allocation
rules must also ensure that nonregulated VDT costs are removed
from regulated VDT service
cost.  Nonregulated VDT can include numerous services for which
the Commission has not
required separate accounting treatment.  Nonregulated VDT data
are not disaggregated for each
nonregulated VDT service, but are instead presented in toto.
Information with respect to
nonregulated services is already required in the LECs' CAMs that
are subject to public comment
and our approval.  We have not adopted cost allocation rules for
nonregulated VDT and are
not receiving information regarding the pricing of nonregulated
VDT.  As a result, we do not
believe our VDT reports request product specific information with
respect to nonregulated VDT
and; thus, the OIC does not violate Commission principles
outlined in the Joint Cost Order.
E.   Procedural Matters
          47.  In the OIC, we proposed that LECs file their first
quarterly VDT report
90 days after the end of the calendar quarter in which they
receive authorization to provide VDT
pursuant to Section 214.  GTE and BellSouth request that we
clarify that the VDT Quarterly
Report for LECs that have already received Section 214
authorization to provide VDT is due
90 days after the end of the calendar quarter in which the final
report form is adopted.
Comcast requests that we specify that diskettes be provided in a
Lotus 1-2-3 format so that the
reports may be easily reviewed by interested parties.  NARUC
requests that the VDT Reports
be available for electronic access by state regulators via
dial-up access.
          48.   We require LECs to file a quarterly VDT report
after they receive their first
Section 214 authorization in each study area.  We clarify that
the first quarterly report is due
on the last day of the calendar quarter following the quarter in
which a LEC receives its first
Section 214 authorization in a study area.  We further clarify
that LECs that have already
received Section 214 authorizations and have been awaiting
finalized reporting requirements must
submit their quarterly reports on the last day of the calendar
quarter following the quarter in
which this Order is adopted.  LECs must also file all previous
quarterly reports on that date with
all of the information required by this Order.  LECs that
previously have filed quarterly
reports will not be required to resubmit those reports.  LECs
must file their future quarterly
reports in accordance with the procedures set forth in the
Appendices to this Order.
          49.  We are incorporating FCC Reports 43-09A and
43-09B, the VDT quarterly
reports and expanded fourth quarter report, into the Commission's
ARMIS data base; interested
parties will be able to gain access to these reports when they
gain access to the ARMIS data
base.  We, accordingly, do not require that LECs submit diskettes
in Lotus 1-2-3 format in
addition to the ASCII format used for ARMIS reporting purposes.
F.   Sunset Date for Reporting Requirements
          50.  In the OIC, we solicited comments concerning how
and when we should
terminate the proposed VDT reporting requirements.  Several of
the commenters suggest that
the VDT reporting requirements should terminate at some specific
time.  Southwestern Bell
states that the reporting requirements should be eliminated for a
particular LEC as soon as the
Bureau has received sufficient information to determine the
impact of VDT on telephone rates
and/or separations.  Southwestern Bell further states that this
process should only take two to
three years.  Southwestern Bell also believes that a carrier
subject to price cap regulation that
has elected a "no sharing" option should be exempt from the
reporting requirements.  Bell
Atlantic also believes that once VDT is subject to price cap
regulation, there is no justification
for ongoing reporting requirements.  GTE proposes that the
quarterly reporting requirement
be terminated no later than one year from the date when an
exchange carrier's VDT services are
included under price cap regulation.  NYNEX believes that the
reporting requirements should
be streamlined or eliminated at the earliest possible time in
light of factors such as alternate
video systems like wireless cable or direct broadcast satellites,
price cap regulation resulting in
local rate freezes, or federal legislation that eliminates
regulatory barriers to effective
competition.  NYDPS states that the VDT reporting requirements
would be obsolete when
there is competition in the telecommunications marketplace.
NYDPS does not, however,
believe that the necessary level of competition has yet been
attained.
          51.  Specifically opposing the elimination of reporting
requirements are
Colorado and NCTA.  Colorado notes that the development of
competition in VDT will not in
itself provide an opportunity to lift or modify the reporting
requirements.  Colorado
emphasizes that existing or potential competition is the very
reason why these reporting
requirements should remain in place for the foreseeable future.
Colorado also states that
several years of experience with the type of data reporting
contemplated by the OIC are required
to assess the effects of the requirement.  NCTA states that the
reporting requirements should
not be eliminated unless they are replaced by a more
comprehensive mechanism for supervising
VDT investment, expenses, and revenue or the provision of
telephone service is deemed
competitive.
          52.  We believe it is necessary to gather data
concerning VDT in order to
monitor the implementation of VDT, to collect information to
measure the impact of VDT on
the jurisdictional separations process, to minimize the risk of
cross-subsidization, to assist in the
tariff review process, and to gauge the effect, if any, on local
telephone rates.  We are not in
a position to say that we will eliminate the reporting
requirements at any particular time.   We
do, however, agree with the comments of Colorado that several
years of experience with the
reporting requirements will be necessary to gauge their
effectiveness.  As we gain that
experience, we will re-evaluate our reporting requirements to
determine the point at which we
can, subject to our delegated authority, minimize or eliminate
VDT reporting requirements.  If
such minimization or elimination of reporting requirements is
outside the scope of our delegated
authority, but appropriate based on future circumstances, we
would propose to the Commission
that those reporting requirements be amended.
                         IV.  NARUC MOTION
          53.  In its reply comments, NARUC included a motion
requesting that the
Commission immediately initiate a comprehensive review of its
Part 36 rules to reflect changes
in technology, market conditions, and industry structure.  NARUC
also moved that the
Commission refer issues raised by RAO Letter 25 and the comments
in this proceeding to the
Separations Joint Board.  Bell Atlantic filed in opposition to
NARUC's motion.
          54.  In the VDT Recon Order, the Commission stated that
it would initiate an
inquiry concerning the implications for the jurisdictional
separations process of the introduction
of new technologies, including broadband technologies, into local
exchange networks.  The
Commission plans to address matters raised by NARUC's motion when
it shortly opens its
broadband technologies inquiry.  In accordance with Section
0.291(h) of the Commission's rules,
the Bureau does not have the authority concerning investigatory
proceedings such as notices of
inquiry.  Action with respect to NARUC's Motion, thus, lies
beyond the scope of our
delegated authority.
     V. PROCE                      DURAL MATTERS
A.  Regulatory Flexibility
          55.  We certify that the Regulatory Flexibility Act of
1980 does not apply to
this because there will not be a significant impact on a
substantial number of small business
entities, as defined by Section 601(3) of the Regulatory
Flexibility Act.  These requirements
concern reporting requirements of LECs and interexchange carriers
that are engaged in the
provision of VDT.  These entities are generally large
corporations, affiliates of large
corporations or are dominant in their fields of operation, and,
thus, are not "small entities" as
defined by the Act.
VI. ORDERING CLAUSES
          56.  Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that, pursuant to
Sections 1, 2, 4(i), 201-
205, 218-220, and 403 of the Communications Act of 1934, as
amended, 47 U.S.C.  151,
152, 154(i), 201-205, 218-220, and 403, and Sections 0.91 and
0.291 of the Commission's
rules, 47 C.F.R. 0.91 and 0.291, the policies, rules, and
requirements set forth herein are
ADOPTED.
                         FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
                         Kathleen M.H. Wallman
                         Chief, Common Carrier BureauAppendix A
Comments have been filed by the following:
Bell Atlantic Telephone Companies (Bell Atlantic)
BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc. (BellSouth)
California Cable Television Association (CCTA)
Chronicle Publishing Company, the Texas Cable TV Association and
  The New Jersey Cable Television Association (Chronicle)
Colorado Office of Consumer Counsel (Colorado)
Comcast Cable Communications, Inc., Cox Enterprises, Inc. and
   Jones Intercable, Inc. (Comcast)
GTE Service Corporation (GTE)
MCI Telecommunications Corporation (MCI)
National Cable Television Association (NCTA)
New York State Department of Public Service (NYDPS)
New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, New York Telephone
Company (NYNEX)
Organization for the Protection and Advancement of Small
Telephone Companies (OPASTCO)
Southwestern Bell Telephone Company (Southwestern Bell)
United States Telephone Association (USTA)
US West Communications, Inc. (US West)
Wisconsin State Telephone Association (WTA)
Reply comments have been filed by the following:
Bell Atlantic
BellSouth
Chronicle
Comcast
GTE
NARUC
NCTA
Southwestern Bell
US West
United
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This document provides the instructions for FCC Report 43-09A,
the ARMIS Video Dialtone
Quarterly Report, which was adopted by the Common Carrier Bureau
to establish reporting
requirements  on video dialtone costs for local exchange carriers
offering video dialtone service.
The instructions consist of the following five sections, which
are attached:
     1.   Reporting Procedures - details on the specific
procedures to be followed when
          submitting this report to the Commission.
     2.   Reporting Definition - an illustration of the rows and
columns to be reported and
          their definitions.
     3.   Automated Report Specifications - the detailed
automated data processing (ADP)
          specifications for the automated report to be filed.
     4.   Paper Report Specifications - the page layout and
detailed specifications for the
          paper report to be filed.
     5.   COSA Code Table - the list of four letter COSA codes
(CO = Company, SA =
          Study Area).
A. Introduction
This document contains details on the specific procedures to be
followed when submitting FCC
Report 43-09A, the ARMIS Video Dialtone Quarterly Report, to the
Commission.
B. General Information
     1.   FCC Report 43-09A was adopted by the Common Carrier
Bureau to establish the
          reporting requirements on video dialtone costs for
local exchange carriers offering
          video dialtone service.  The report is prescribed for
every local exchange carrier
          that has obtained Section 214 Authorization(s) from the
Commission to provide
          video dialtone trials or commercial services.
     2.   Affected carriers shall file by June 30, September 30
and December 31 of each
          year the report for the previous calendar quarter.  The
initial report will be filed
          90 days after the end of the calendar quarter in which
a carrier received
          authorization.  (For example, a LEC receiving Section
214 authorization to
          provide video dialtone service on September 15, 1996,
would be required to file
          its first quarterly report for the quarter ending
September 30, 1996 on December
          31, 1996.
     3.   The report shall be filed on a study area
(jurisdiction) basis.
     4.   Carriers seeking proprietary treatment for some data
must provide two versions
          of each paper and automated report.  The Confidential
Version must contain all
          the required information (Confidential Treatment
Tables/Data Records are
          provided to identify confidential data).  The Public
Version should not include
          data for which the carrier is seeking proprietary
treatment.  The carrier should
          prominently label the paper report and the diskette
containing information subject
          to a claim of confidentiality to prevent inadvertent
disclosure.
     5.   Carriers not seeking proprietary treatment for any data
should provide only one
          version of each paper report and diskette, and the
paper report and the diskette
          should be labeled the Unrestricted Version.
     6.   The Confidential Treatment Tables/Data Records are to
be included in all reports
          but are not a substitute for applying for confidential
treatment with this
          Commission following established Commission procedures.
     7.   Each report and diskette must be clearly labeled to
include the report number,
          company, study area, period, COSA code, version and
submission number.  The
          report number is 43-09A, which identifies the filing as
the ARMIS Video
          Dialtone Quarterly Report.  The period identifies the
year and quarter covered by
          the data.  See the attached COSA Code Table (CO =
Company, SA = Study
          Area) for a list of companies and their respective
COSAs.  The version refers to
          whether the filing is the Confidential, Public or
Unrestricted Version.  The
          submission number is defined as follows:  Submission 0
is for test data purposes
          only.  Submission 1 is the first submission of a
quarter's data.  Higher numbers
          (2, 3, etc.) would be used if needed for successive
revisions to correct that
          quarter's submission.
     8.   All correspondence and pleadings shall identify the
proceeding as Reporting
          Requirements on Video Dialtone Costs and Jurisdictional
Separations for Local
          Exchange Carriers Offering Video Dialtone Services, AAD
No. 95-59.
C.  Data Items That Are "Not Available" or Are "Withheld"
     1.   The term "Not Available" is used below to refer only to
those items which the
          Commission ruled are not applicable to a particular
row/column or are not
          required for a particular filing entity.  The
Confidential Version must contain
          values for all of the data items except those items
which are "Not Available."  If,
          in addition to the required study area reports, a
carrier submits a report which
          combines data for more than one study area, and this
report includes a field such
          as a sum, a ratio, or a percentage that cannot be
computed completely and
          accurately because it relies on another item which the
Commission has ruled is
          a "Not Available" item, then that field is also
considered to be "Not Available."
     2.   The term "Withheld" is used below to refer only to
those items for which the
          carrier has applied for confidential treatment with the
Commission and is only
          applicable to the Public Version.  If a field such as a
sum, a ratio or percentage
          relies on an item or items which have been withheld and
that field is not also
          withheld, then it must include the withheld amount.
For example, a carrier could
          withhold the individual values for two of three numbers
which are totaled.  If the
          carrier does not also apply for confidential treatment
for the total, then that total
          must be the sum of all three numbers, not just the one
which was not withheld.
          The Public Version must contain values for all of the
data items except those
          items which are "Not Available" or those items which
have been "Withheld".
     3.   See paragraph C.11 in the attached Automated Report
Specifications and
          paragraph C.7 in the attached Paper Report
Specifications for data entry
          conventions for these items.
D.  Where to File
     1.   Carriers submitting FCC Report 43-09A should consult
the schedule below which
          details the number of copies required and the location
to which those copies
          should be delivered.
     2.   Carriers are reminded that they must serve a copy of
either the Unrestricted
          Version or the Public Version of both the paper report
and the automated report
          (diskette) on the FCC contractor for public records
duplication.

                             NUMBER OF COPIES
             FOR CARRIERS NOT SEEKING PROPRIETARY TREATMENT
                                             Unre-Unre-
                              Trans-    stricted  stricted
                              mittal         PaperAutomated
                              Letter         Report    Report
                                                  (diskette)
FCC Secretary
1919 M Street, N.W.
Room 222
Washington, D.C. 20554             1         -               -
FCC Common Carrier Bureau
Accounting & Audits Div.
2000 L Street, N.W.
Room 812
Washington, D.C. 20554             2         2               2
FCC Common Carrier Bureau
Industry Analysis Div.
1919 M Street, N.W.
Room 534
Washington, D.C. 20554             1         1               1
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2100 M Street N.W.
Suite 140
Washington, D.C. 20037             1         1    1

               FOR CARRIERS SEEKING PROPRIETARY TREATMENT
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Public
                         mittal    Paper          Automated Paper
Automated
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Report
                                        (diskette)  (diskette)
FCC Secretary
1919 M Street, N.W.
Room 222
Washington, D.C. 20554        1        -             -    - -
FCC Common Carrier Bureau
Accounting & Audits Div.
2000 L Street, N.W.
Room 812
Washington, D.C. 20554        3        1             1    2 2
FCC Common Carrier Bureau
Industry Analysis Div.
1919 M Street, N.W.
Room 534
Washington, D.C. 20554        1        -             -    1 1
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Service, Inc. (ITS)
2100 M Street N.W.
Suite 140
Washington, D.C. 20037        1        -             -    1 1

E.  Footnotes
     1.   If any data for the current period differs materially
from those for the previous
          period or the corresponding period of the preceding
year and the difference is not
          self-explanatory but was caused by unusual
circumstances, the filing carrier must
          include footnote text to explain the specific
circumstances fully.
     2.   Footnotes must contain full explanations.
          EXAMPLE:
          Do not say, "Data are compiled using a more inclusive
process than in previous
          filing."
          Do say, "Data are compiled using a process that
includes xxx, which was not
          included in previous filings.  The impact of including
xxx in this row inflates this
          number by x% over the previous reporting period."
     3.   If the reporting carrier does not follow the procedures
described in the row and
          column instructions of the attached Report Definition,
it must fully explain any
          deviations from those procedures.
          EXAMPLE:
          Do not say, "This value was not calculated pursuant to
the instructions."
          Do, say "This value was calculated using the xxx method
rather than the method
          described in the instructions because..."
     4.   Fully explain means the footnote will provide enough
information for the data
          user to understand the circumstances.
          EXAMPLES:
          Do not say, "Corrected Data."
          Do say, "$xxxx is changed to $xxxx because ...."
          Do not say, "Waiver" or Waiver Granted."
          Do say, "Waiver of Part xx.xxx was granted in CC Docket
No. xx-xxx,  x FCC
          Rcd, xxxx (1992) to allow Any Company to ....
because...."
     5.   Do not include explanatory footnotes in the transmittal
letter.  The Footnote text
          must be included in the Footnote Text Records and the
Footnote Table as
          specified in the attached Automated Report
Specifications and the attached Paper
          Report Specifications.
F.  Errata
     1.   Carriers are under a legal obligation to correct any
erroneous data discovered in
          FCC Report 43-09A.  Submissions containing corrected
data must include
          references to indicate which data items were corrected
since previous submission.
     2.   These references must be included in the Erratum
Records and the Erratum Table
          as specified in the attached Automated Report
Specifications and the attached
          Paper Report Specifications.
G.  Certification
     1.   Carriers must certify the accuracy of the data
submitted in FCC Report 43-09A
          by including a signed certification statement as the
last page of the paper report.
     2.   The text of the certification statement is included on
page 12 of the attached
          Report Definition.
H.  Waivers
     1.   If a carrier determines that it will be unable to
provide data required by FCC
          Report 43-09A, it must file an application for waiver
with the Commission
          following established Commission procedures.  All such
requests from a carrier
          should be included in a single application.  The
application must demonstrate
          good cause for reporting a different or lower level of
detail and indicate how
          these deficiencies will be corrected.
     2.   Carriers are strongly encouraged to comply with the
requirements.  Omission of
          individual data items or entries, without request for
waiver, is unacceptable.  One
          reason that compliance with the full requirements is so
important is that omission
          of any single data entry by any carrier will jeopardize
the accuracy of aggregate
          industry information.
I.  Public Information
     1.   The public or unrestricted versions of the paper
reports filed as Report 43-09A
          may be examined by the public from 9:00 to 12:00 p.m.
and from 1:00 to 4:00
          p.m., Monday through Friday, in Room 812, 2000 L
Street, N.W., Washington,
          D.C.
     2.   Copies of the public or unrestricted versions of the
paper or automated reports
          filed as FCC Report 43-09A may be obtained from the
FCC's contractor for
          public records duplication, ITS at 2100 M Street, N.W.
Suite 140, Washington,
          D.C. 20037.  Parties should contact Wilbur Thomas or
ITS (202) 857-3800.
For further information regarding these procedures, contact:
                                    Ken Ackerman
                                    FCC Common Carrier Bureau
                                    Accounting and Audits
Division
                                    (202) 418-0810
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                                  SUMMARY
This document provides the Report Definition for FCC Report
43-09A, the ARMIS VDT
Quarterly Report, and lists all wholly dedicated and shared
investment, expense, and revenue
data related to local exchange carrier provision of video
dialtone service.  Carriers must provide
these data on a quarterly basis by study area.  It contains the
following:
                                                  Pages
Table 1 - Video Dialtone Costs and Revenue Data          2
through 4
Row and Column Descriptions                              5
through 11
Certification                                            12
All dollar amounts must be rounded to the nearest thousand dollar
amount.   All percentage
amounts must be rounded to two decimal places.  Unless otherwise
indicated, line items must
reflect the results of video dialtone operations as of the end of
the reporting period.
Items which need not be reported because they do not apply are
designated by "N/A".  All other
fields must be populated.  If there are no dollar amounts related
to video dialtone operations for
a given field, enter zero.
Do not include explanatory notes in the transmittal letter; such
notes must be included in the
footnote section of the filing.
NOTICE:  The ARMIS Video Dialtone Quarterly Report collects
highly aggregated financial
data reflecting accounting results for the investment, expense,
and revenue related to the
provision of video dialtone service as required by the Video
Dialtone Reconsideration Order and
in accordance with Part 32 and Responsible Accounting Officer
Letter 25 ("RAO Letter 25").
The ARMIS Video Dialtone Quarterly Report specifies information
requirements in a consistent
format and is essential for the FCC's efforts to monitor video
dialtone deployment and its effect
on telephone ratepayers.  Carriers must file this response upon
receiving Section 214
authorizations to provide video dialtone service.  Your response
is mandatory.
Public reporting burden for this collection of information is
estimated to average 15-20 hours
per response, including the time for reviewing instructions,
searching existing data sources,
gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and
reviewing the collection of
information.  Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any
other aspect of this
collection of information, including suggestions for reducing the
burden to the Federal
Communications Commission, Records Management Branch, Washington,
D.C. 20554.
                           GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
FCC Report 43-09A requires the quarterly reporting of data for 4
columns and for 57 rows.
The rows generally correspond to rows contained in FCC Report
43-01 ARMIS Quarterly
Report.  Some rows may not apply to video dialtone, these rows
are designated "N/A".  Carriers
should place a zero in any cell that have no dollar amounts
related to their video dialtone
operations.
                            COLUMN INSTRUCTIONS
Column
   b           Total - This column contains the amount the
carrier reports in each
               corresponding row of column (b) in its FCC Report
43-01, ARMIS
               Quarterly Report, for the corresponding quarter
and study area.
   c           Shared - This column reports the amount in column
(b) that is recorded
               in the carriers' subsidiary accounting records
established to capture the
               investment, expenses and revenue shared between
video dialtone and the
               provision of other services.
   d           Shared Allocated to VDT - This column reflects the
amount of column(c)
               that is allocated to video dialtone.
   e           Dedicated VDT - This column reports the amount in
column (b) that is
               recorded in the carriers' subsidiary accounting
records established to
               capture the investment, expenses and revenue
wholly dedicated to the
               provision of video dialtone service.
                             ROW INSTRUCTIONS
Each row below is a summary of accounts described in Part 32 of
the Commission's Rules.
Because Part 32 does not require the same level of account detail
for Class A and Class B
carriers, the instructions listed below indicate, where
applicable, different reporting for these
carriers.
Row       Revenues
1010      Basic Local Service - Class A:  The total of accounts
5001 through 5060.  Class
          B:  The total of account 5000.
1020      Network Access Services -  Class A and Class B:  The
total of accounts 5081
          through 5084.
1030      Toll Network Services -  Class A:  The total of
accounts 5100, 5110 and 5121
          through 5160, exclusive of account 5129.  Class B:  The
total of accounts 5100.
1040      Miscellaneous - Class A:  The total of accounts 5230
through 5250, 5261 through
          5264, 5270 and 5280.  Class B:  The total of accounts
5200 and 5280.
1050      Settlements - The total of accounts 5069, 5129, 5169
and 5269.  Carriers which
          do not retain the Class A accounts throughout
separations reporting will include
          these amounts in the Class B accounts reported on rows
1010, 1030 and 1040.
1060      Uncollectibles - Class A:  The total of accounts 5301
and 5302.   Class B:  The
          total of account 5300.
1090      Net Revenues - Class A and Class B:  The total of rows
1010 through 1050 less
          row 1060.
          Expenses
1120      Plant Specific - Class A:  The total of accounts 6112
through 6116, 6121 through
          6124, 6211 through 6220, 6231, 6232, 6311 through 6362,
and 6411 through
          6441.  Class B:  The total of accounts 6110, 6120,
6210, 6220, 6230, 6310, and
          6410.
1130      Plant Non-Specific -  Class A:  The total of accounts
6511, 6512 and 6531
          through 6535.   Class B:  The total of accounts 6510
and 6530.
1140      Customer Operations Marketing -  Class A:  The total of
accounts 6611 through
          6613.   Class B:  The total of account 6610.
1150      Customer Operations Services - Class A:  The total of
accounts 6621 through
          6623.  Class B:  The total of account 6620.
1160      Corporate Operations - Class A:  The total of accounts
6711, 6712, 6721 through
          6728 and 6790.  Class B:  The total of accounts 6710,
6720, and 6790.
1170      Access - Class A and Class B:  The balance of account
6540.
1180      Depreciation/Amortization -  Class A:  The total of
accounts 6561 through 6565.
          Class B:  The total of account 6560.
1185      FCC Expense Adjustment - This amount shall contain the
net of:  (1) expense and
          other tax items not included above which the Commission
has expressly allowed
          for ratemaking purposes; and (2) expense and other tax
items included above
          which the Commission has expressly excluded for
ratemaking purposes.  A
          positive value represents a net allowance and a
negative value represents a net
          disallowance.
1190      Total Operating Expenses - Class A and Class B:  The
total of rows 1120 through
          1185.
          Other Operating Items
1290      Other Operating Income/Losses - Class A:  This amount
shall contain the net of
          accounts 7110 through 7160 and 7990.  Class B:  This
amount shall contain the
          net of accounts 7100 and 7990.  A positive value
represents income and a
          negative value represents loss.
          Non-operating Items
1320      Income Effects of Jurisdictional Ratemaking Differences
(Net) - Class A and
          Class B:  The balance of account 7910.  A positive
value represents an increase
          to net income and a negative value represents a
decrease to net income.
1330      Extraordinary Items - Class A:  The total of accounts
7610 through 7640.  Class
          B:  The total of account 7600.   Amounts excluded from
ratemaking are removed
          in row 1370.  A positive value represents an income
credit and a negative value
          represents an income charge.
1340      Allowance for Funds Used During Construction -  Class
A:  The balance of
          account 7340.  Amounts excluded from ratemaking are
removed in row 1370.
          Class B:  Not applicable.
1350      Special Charges - Class A:  The balance of account
7370.  Amounts excluded
          from ratemaking are removed in row 1370.  Class B:  Not
applicable.
1360      All Other Non-Operating Items - Class A:  The total
amount of accounts 7310
          through 7330, 7350 and 7360.  Class B:  The balance of
account 7300.  Amounts
          excluded from ratemaking are removed in row 1370.  A
positive value represents
          income and a negative value represents a loss.
1370      FCC Non-Operating Adjustment - This amount shall
contain the net of:  (1) non-
          operating items not included above which the Commission
has expressly allowed
          for ratemaking purposes; and (2) non-operating items
included above which the
          Commission has expressly excluded for ratemaking
purposes.  A positive value
          represents a net allowance and a negative value
represents a net disallowance.
1390      Total Non-Operating Items - Class A and Class B:  The
total of rows 1350 and
          1370 less rows 1320, 1330, 1340 and 1360.
          Other Taxes
1410      State and Local - Class A:  The total of accounts 7230
and the appropriate portion
          of account 7250 for column (b).  Class B:  Follow Class
B instructions using
          relevant portion of account 7200.
1420      Other State and Local - The total of account 7240 for
column (b).
1490      Total Other Taxes - The  total of rows 1410 and 1420.
          Federal Income Taxes
1590      Federal Income Taxes - Class A:  For column (b), enter
the total of account 7220
          and the appropriate portion of account 7250 minus the
appropriate amount of
          amortization in account 7210.  Class B:  Follow the
instructions of Class A using
          the relevant portion of account 7200.
          Plant in service
1620      Support Plant - Class A:  The total of accounts 2111
through 2124.  Class B:
          The total amount in account 2110.
1630      Operator Systems Equipment - Class A and Class B:  The
balance of account
          2220.
1640      Central Office Equipment-Switching - Class A:  The
balance of accounts 2211
          through 2215.  Class B:  The balance of account 2210.
1650      Central Office Equipment-Transmission - Class A:  The
total of accounts 2231
          and 2232.  Class B:  The balance in account 2230.
1660      Cable and Wire Facilities-Total - Class A:  The total
of accounts 2411 through
          2441.  This amount also equals the total of rows 1661,
1662 and 1663.  Class B:
          The balance in account 2410.
1661      Cable and Wire Facilities-Metallic Cable - Class A:
The total of the metallic
          subsidiary record categories in accounts 2421, 2422,
2423, 2424, 2425 and 2426.
          Class B:  Not applicable.
1662      Cable and Wire Facilities-Non-Metallic Cable -  Class
A:  The total of the non-
          metallic subsidiary record categories in accounts 2421,
2422, 2423, 2424, 2425
          and 2426.  Class B:  Not applicable.
1663      Cable and Wire Facilities-Other - Class A:  The total
of accounts 2411, 2431,
          and 2441.  Class B:  Not applicable.
1670      Information Origination/Termination Equipment - Class
A:  The total of accounts
          2311 through 2362.  Class B:  The balance of account
2310.
1680      Amortizable Assets - Class A:  The total of accounts
2681, 2682 and 2690.  Class
          B:  The total of accounts 2680 and 2690.
1690      Total Plant -  Class A and Class B:  The total of rows
1620, 1630, 1640, 1650,
          1660, 1670 and 1680.
          Other Investments
1705      Other Jurisdictional Assets-Net - Class A and Class B:
The balance of Account
          1500.  A positive value represents an increase to
assets and a negative value
          represents a decrease to assets.
1710      Property Held for Future Telecommunications Use - Class
A and Class B:  The
          balance of account 2002.
1720      Telecommunications Plant Under Construction - Class A
and Class B:  The total
          of accounts 2003.  Amounts excluded from ratemaking are
removed in row 1780.
1730      Plant Acquisition Adjustment - Class A and Class B:
The balance of account
          2005.  Amounts excluded from ratemaking are removed in
row 1780.
1740      Investment in Nonaffiliated Companies - Class A and
Class B:  The balance of
          account 1402.  The amount directly related to Class B
Rural Telephone Back
          Stock shall be included in the rate base.  Amounts
excluded from ratemaking are
          removed in row 1780.
1750      Other Deferred Charges - Class A and Class B:  The
total of accounts 1437, 1438
          and 1439.  Amounts excluded from ratemaking are removed
in row 1780.
1760      Inventories - Class A and Class B:  The balance of
account 1220.
1770      Cash Working Capital - This amount equals that portion
of investment required
          to meet current expenses.  The calculation of this
amount shall take into account
          revenue and expense items which are received or paid
for before the service is
          rendered and expense items received or disbursed after
the service is rendered.
          This amount must be developed pursuant to CC Docket
86-497.
1780      FCC Investment Adjustment - This amount shall contain
the net of:  (1)
          investment items not included above which the
Commission has expressly allowed
          for ratemaking purposes; and (2) investment items
included above which the
          Commission has expressly excluded for ratemaking
purposes.  A positive value
          represents a net asset allowance and a negative value
represents a net
          disallowance.
1790      Total Other Investment - Class A and Class B:  The
total of rows 1705 through
          1780.
          Reserves
1820      Accumulated Depreciation - Class A and Class B:  The
total of accounts 3100 and
          3200.
1830      Accumulated Amortization - Class A:  The total of
accounts 3410, 3420, 3500
          and 3600.  Class B:  The total of accounts 3400, 3500
and 3600.
1840      Deferred Federal Income Taxes - Class A and Class B:
The total of accounts
          4100 and 4340.
1850      Customer Deposits - Class A and Class B:  The balance
of account 4040.
1870      Other Deferred Credits - Class A and Class B:  The
balance of account 4360.
          Amounts excluded from ratemaking are removed in row
1885.
1880      Other Jurisdictional Liabilities and Deferred
Credits-Net - Class A and Class B:
          The balance of accounts 4310 and 4370.
1885      FCC Reserve Adjustment - This amount shall contain the
net of:  (1) reserve
          items not included above which the Commission has
expressly included for
          ratemaking purposes; and (2) reserve items included
above which the Commission
          has expressly excluded for ratemaking purposes.  A
positive value represents a
          net reserve allowance and a negative value represents a
net reserve disallowance.
1890      Total Reserves - Class A and Class B:  The total of
rows 1820 through 1885.
                               CERTIFICATION
I certify that I am an officer of
___________________________________________________;
that I have examined the foregoing report and that to the best of
my knowledge, information,
and belief, all statements of fact contained in this report are
true and that said report is an
accurate statement of the affairs of the above named respondent
in respect to the data set forth
herein for the period from ____________________ to
__________________.
PRINTED NAME
POSITION
SIGNATURE
DATE
(Persons making willful false statements in this report form can
be punished by fine or
imprisonment under the Communications Act, 47 U.S.C. 220(e).)
CONTACT PERSON
TELEPHONE NUMBER

A.   Introduction
This document contains the detailed automated data processing
(ADP) specifications for the
automated report to be filed as FCC Report 43-09A, the ARMIS
Video Dialtone Quarterly
Report.
B.   General Format and Media
     1.   All data must be submitted on 3.5 inch double-sided
high density IBM-PC
          compatible diskettes.
     2.   All files must be coded in ASCII.
     3    See sections B and C on pages 1 and 2 of the
accompanying Reporting
          Procedures for a discussion of the Confidential
Version, the Public Version, and
          the Unrestricted Version of this report and for a
definition and discussion of data
          items that are "Not Available" or are "Withheld."
     4.   The file name for each file has seven components:
          a.   the four letter COSA code (CO = Company, SA =
Study Area, see
               attached COSA Code Table for a list of companies
and their respective
               COSAs).
          b.   the last two digits of the year which is covered
by the data.
          c.   the letter "V".
          d.   the number of the quarter which is covered by the
data.
          e.   a decimal point.
          f.   the letter "P", "C", or "U" to indicate whether
this is the Public version,
               the Confidential version, or the only
(Unrestricted) version since all data
               is non-confidential.
          g.   two digits (zero filled) for the submission
number.  Submission 0 is for
               test data purposes only. Submission 1 is for the
first submission of a
               quarter's data.  Higher numbers (2,3,etc.) would
be used if needed for
               successive revisions to correct that quarter's
submission.
          For example, the file name for the Unrestricted Version
of the initial quarterly
          report data file to be submitted by Illinois Bell to
cover the first quarter of
          calendar year 1995, would be LBIL95V1.U01:
                    LBIL COSA for Illinois Bell
                    95   Data for calendar year 1995
                    V    Video Dialtone Report Data File
                    1    Data for the first quarter
                    .    Decimal point
                    U    Unrestricted version
                    01   First submission of this quarter's data
     5.   A separate file must be prepared for each report.  More
than one file can be
          placed on the same diskette, as long as they cover the
same period, version, and
          submission number.
C.   Data Entry Conventions
     1.   If an entry is to be a subtraction, indicate so by
placing a minus sign in the
          column, immediately preceding the numeric data, e.g.,
use -4, NOT - 4 or (4).
     2.   Begin each data record in column 1 and make each record
the proper length as
          specified in the accompanying record layouts.  Commas
are used as delimiters
          between fields.  All numeric fields are right justified
and space filled, e.g. use
             123, NOT 123    .  All non-numeric fields are
enclosed in double quotation
          marks and are left justified and space filled within
these quotation marks, e.g. use
          "John Doe           ".
     3.   Give each record a unique record number, beginning with
1001 and incrementing
          by one, with no numbers skipped.
     4.   Do NOT include "$" or "%" or embedded commas, decimal
points, spaces,
          quotes or other formatting characters in any numeric
data fields, except for row
          number and percentage field, which will include a
decimal point but not a percent
          sign.
     5.   In any numeric data field designated by N/A, enter
-99999.  If a "Public Version"
          diskette is filed, enter -88888 in any numeric data
field for which  data are
          "Withheld".  DO NOT override N/As.
          If a reporting carrier wishes to apply data to a field
containing an N/A, the
          carrier should enter as a footnote to the field, the
amount(s) and an explanation.
          The amount(s) must not be entered in the N/A's field.
All other fields must be
          populated. If there are no dollar amounts related to
video dialtone operations for
          an open field, enter zero.
          These entries must be formatted according to the format
rules for the particular
          data field; e.g., in the percentage fields, -99999
would be entered as -99999.00.
D.   Rounding Conventions
     1.   As specified in the accompanying Report Definition, all
monetary figures must
          be rounded to the nearest thousand dollars.
     2.   All percentage amounts must be entered in percent and
must be rounded to 2
          decimal places.
               Example:  23.70516 should be entered as 23.71
E.   Footnotes
     1.   If any data for the current period differs materially
from those for the previous
          period and the difference is not self-explanatory but
was caused by unusual
          circumstances not explained in a previous report, then
include footnote text to
          explain the specific circumstances.
     2.   If the reporting carrier does not follow the procedures
described in the row and
          column instructions of the attached Report Definition,
it must explain any
          deviations from those procedures in an explanatory
fonote. Such footnotes must
          provide detailed explanations of the procedures
actually used by the carrier and
          its specific reasons for deviating from procedures
prescribed by the Commission's
          Rules.  This provision should not be interpreted to
mean that deviations from the
          prescribed rules will automatically be approved by the
Commission.
     3.   Footnotes must be included in the footnote text
record(s) of the automated report.
F.   Errata
     1.   Carriers are under a legal obligation to correct any
erroneous data discovered in
          FCC Report 43-09A.  Submission containing corrected
data must include
          references to indicate which data  items were corrected
since previous
          submission.
     2.   These references must be included in the erratum
record(s) of the automated
          report.
G.   Data Record Descriptions
The seven data record types are described below.  See pages 6
through 15 for record layouts.
The automated file will consist of the following record Types:
     Record Type H1      Header Record  One Type H1 record per
file.
                                   The first record of each file.
                                   Contains identifying data.
                                   See page 6 for record layout.
     Record Type L1      Label Record        One Type L1 record
per file.
                                   The second record of each
file.
                                   Contains report number,
carrier
                                    name, study area name, etc.
                                   See page 7 for record layout.
     Record Type I1      Costs and Revenue   57 Type I1 records
per file.
                    Data Record         One record for each of
the 57
                                    rows shown on Pages 2-4 &
6-11 of the
                                    accompanying Report
Definition.
                                   Each record contains data
values
                                    reflecting accounting results
prepared on
                                    a cumulative basis for the
investment,
                                    expense and revenue related
to the
                                    provision of video dialtone
service.
                                   See page 8 for record layout
     Record Type C1      Confidential        One or more Type C1
records per
                    Treatment Record      file.
                                   Contains information to
identify the
                                    data for which the  carrier
is seeking
                                    confidential treatment or to
verify that
                                    the  carrier is not seeking
any confidential
                                    treatment.
                                   See pages 9 & 10 for record
layout.
     Record Type F1      Footnote Record     One or more Type F1
records
                                    per file.
                                   Contains explanatory footnote
text.
                                   See pages 11 & 12 for record
layout.

     Record Type E1      Erratum Record Zero Type E1 records in
the
                                   first submission of a
quarter's
                                    data.
                                   One or more Type E1 records
per
                                     file in revisions filed to
correct
                                     that quarter's submission.
                                   Contains information to
identify
                                     the data which was corrected
                                     in the submission.
                                   See pages 13 & 14 for record
layout.
     Record Type T1      Trailer Record One Type T1 record per
file.
                                   The last record of each file.
                                   Contains contact person, etc.
                                   See page 15 for record layout.

FCC Report 43-09A - Automated Report Specifications
September 1995          Page 6 of 15
RECORD TYPE H1 - HEADER RECORD
Field     Item               Example      Position    Description
  1   Record Number          1001            1-4      The
sequential number of this record
                                           within this data file
plus 1000.
      Format:  Right justified and space filled.
  2   COSA                   "LBIL"       6-11        The COSA
code for the filing entity.
         (see attached COSA Code Table)
      Format:  Include quotation marks.
  3   Record Type            "H1"         13-16       Always
contains the letter H capitalized
          and the number 1 with no space between       them.
      Format:  Include quotation marks.
  4   File Name             "LBIL95V1.U01"18-31       The name of
the ASCII file.
         Format:  See page 1, paragraph B.4 above.
                                      Include quotation marks.
  5   Year                   1995         33-36       The year
covered by the data.
  6   Quarter #              1            38 The quarter number
covered by the data
       on a cumulative basis.
      1 for January to March
      2 for April to June
      3 for July to September
  7   Data Entry Date        19950513     40-47       The date on
which the data were last
          entered or revised.
      Format:  YYYYMMDD.
  8   Version                "U"          49-51       The version
letter (P, C or U) capitalized
          (for Public, Confidential or Unrestricted)
                                          Format:  Include
quotation marks.
  9   Submission #            1           53-54       0 for test
data purposes only.
      1 or first submission of a quarter's data.
      Higher numbers (2, 3, etc.) would be used
       if needed for successive revisions to
       correct that quarter's submission.
      Format:  Right justified and space filled.
 10   End of Record Code     "XQ"         56-59       Always
contains the letters XQ capitalized
                              with no space between them to
indicate the
          end of the record.
      Format:  Include quotation marks.
Note: All fields are separated by commas.
The ruler lines (123456789 etc.) included below and following
with sample records are included only to
assist the reader.  Do not include ruler lines as records in the
electronic filing.
___________________________________________________________
          1         2         3        4        5              .
. . . . Ruler Line
12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789    .
. . . . Ruler line
Sample record:
1001,"LBIL","H1","LBIL95V1.U01",1995,1,19950513,"U", 1,"XQ"
FCC Report 43-09A - Automated Report Specifications
September 1995               Page 7 of 15
                                        RECORD TYPE L1 - LABEL
RECORD
Field      Item          Example          Position
Description
  1   Record Number      1002              1-4         The
sequential number of this record
                          within this data file plus 1000.
                         Format:  Right justified and space
filled.
  2   COSA               "LBIL"            6-11        The COSA
code for the filing entity.
                         Format:  Include quotation marks.
  3   Record Type        "L1"              13-16       Always
contains the letter L capitalized
                                        and the number 1 with no
space between them.
                         Format:  Include quotation marks.
  4   Report Number     "FCC REPORT 43-09A"         18-36
Always contains "FCC REPORT 43-09A"
                                                    capitalized.
                         Format:  Include quotation marks.
  5   Carrier           "Illinois Bell  "           38-69   Name
of the carrier.
                       (spaces until pos. 69)          Format:
Left justified and space filled.
                                                     Include
quotation marks.
  6   Study Area        "Illinois       "           71-92   Name
of the study area.
                         Format:  Left justified and space
filled.
                                                     Include
quotation marks.
  7   Period Covered  "Jan 1995 to Mar 1995"       94-115
Period covered by the data.
                         Format:  "mmm yyyy to mmm yyyy"
                                                   Include
quotation marks.
  8   End of Record Code "XQ"             117-120      Always
contains the letters XQ
                                           capitalized with no
space   between them to
                          indicate the end of the record.
                         Format:  Include quotation marks.
Note:  All fields are separated by commas.
         1         2         3         4         5         6
  7         8         9
12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345
6789012345678901234567890123
Sample record:
1002,"LBIL","L1","FCC REPORT 43-09A","Illinois Bell
 ","Illinois            ",
      1         1         1
9     0         1         2
456789012345678901234567890
Continuation of sample record:
"Jan 1995 to Mar 1995","XQ"
FCC Report 43-09A - Automated Report Specifications
September 1995       Page 8 of 15
                    RECORD TYPE I1 - VIDEO DIALTONE COSTS AND
REVENUE DATA RECORD
Field     Item                 Example      Position
Description
  1       Record Number        1009         1-4         The
sequential number of this record
                                                         within
this data file plus 1000.
                                                        Format:
Right justified and space filled.
  2       COSA                 "LBIL"       6-11   The COSA code
for the filing entity.
                                                       Format:
Include quotation marks.
  3       Record Type          "I1"        13-16        Always
contains the letter I capitalized
                                                         and the
number 1 with no space between them
                                                        Format:
Include quotation marks.
  4       Row Number            1090.0     18-23        Row
number as identified on pages 2-4 and 6-11
                           of the accompaning Report Definition.
                                        Valid range:  1010.0 to
1890.0
                          Format:  Right justified and space
filled.
  5       Column (b) data       31219      25-33        This
field contains the data corresponding
                                                         to
column (b) as shown on Pages 2-4 and 5
                                                         of the
accompanying Report Definition.
                                                        Format:
Right justified and space filled.
Enter -99999 in integer rows where
a field is designated by N/A.  All
                               other fields must be populated.
If
                               there are no data applicable to an
                               open field enter zero.
Enter -88888 in integer rows on the
                               "public version" diskette to
indicate
                               that confidential treatment has
been
                               requested.
  6       Column (c) data       56890      35-43        Column
(c) data
                                                        Format:
See Field 5 above.
  7       Column (d) data        1521      45-53        Column
(d) data
                                                        Format:
See Field 5 above.
  8       Column (e) data       41521      55-63        Column
(e) data
                                                        Format:
See Field 5 above.
  9       End of Record Code     "XQ"      65-68        Always
contains the letters XQ capitalized
                                                         with no
space between them to indicate the end
                                                         of the
record.
                                                        Format:
Include quotation marks.
Note:  All fields are separated by commas.
Footnote records are needed if any data for the current period
differ materially  from  those for
the previous period or the corresponding period of the preceding
year and the   difference is not
self-explanatory but was caused by unusual circumstances.
Footnote records are also needed if the
procedures described in the row and column instructions are not
followed.  The  carrier  must include
footnote text to fully explain the specific circumstances or any
deviations from the procedures.
See section D of the accompanying Reporting Procedures for a
discussion of footnotes.
Add one or more Type F1 record(s) after the remaining Type I1 and
C1 records.
         1         2         3         4         5         6
12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345
678
Sample record:
1009,"LBIL","I1",1090.0,    31219,    56890,     1521,
41521,"XQ"
FCC Report 43-09A - Automated Report Specifications
September 1995              Page 9 of 15
                           RECORD TYPE C1 - CONFIDENTIAL
TREATMENT RECORD
Field     Item                Example  Position    Description
  1   Record Number      1060          1-4         The sequential
number of this record
      (for this record)                                within
this data file plus 1000.
                                                   Format:  Right
justified and space filled.
  2   COSA               "LBIL"        6-11        The COSA code
for the filing entity.
                                                        Format:
Include quotation marks.
  3   Record Type        "C1"         13-16        Always
contains the letter C capitalized
                                                         and the
number 1 with no space between them.
                                                        Format:
Include quotation marks.
  4   Record Number      1009          18-21       This field
contains the record number
      (for the confidential                             of the
record which contains the
        data)             data for which the carrier is seeking
                          confidential treatment.  If the request
                          is for the entire column(s) or the
entire
                          submission, use 9999.  If no
confidential
                          treatment is being requested, then use
0.
                                                        Format:
Right justified and space filled.
  5   Table Number          "I   "     23-28       This field
contains the table number (Roman
                           numerals)of the table in which the
                                                          the
confidential data appear.
                                                        If the
request is for the entire submission,
                                                         enter
"ZZZZ".  If no confidential treatment
                                                         is being
requested then enter "    ".
                                                        Format:
Include quotation marks.
Left justified and space filled.
  6   Row Number            1090.0     30-35       This field
contains the row number of the
                                                         row
which contains the confidential data
                                                         as
identified in the accompanying Report
Definition.  If the request is for the
                                                         entire
column(s), an entire table or the
                                                         entire
submission, enter 9999.0. If no
confidential treatment is being requested
                                                         then use
0.0.
                                                        Format:
Right justified and space filled,
with one decimal place.
  7   Column Label          "C "         37-40     This field
contains the column letter of the
confidential data as identified in the
accompanying Report Definition.  If the request is
                                                         for an
entire row, an entire table, or the entire
submission, enter "ZZ".  If the request is for more
                                                         than one
column but less than the entire row, then
                                                         populate
this field and as many as needed of fields
                                                         8 thru
26.  If no confidential treatment is requested,
                                                         then
enter "  " in all of fields 7 thru 26.
                                                        Format:
Include quotation marks.
Left justified and space filled.
  8       Second Column Label  "C "          42-45 .....
  9       Third Column Label   "D "          47-50     .
Fields 8 thru 26 are similar
  .                                                          .
 to Field 7 and are used
  .                                                           .
 when the request is for
  .                                                          .
 the same row and more than
  .                                                         .
 one column.
 26       Twentieth Col. Label "  "         132-135    .....
Otherwise, enter "  ".
FCC Report 43-09A - Automated Report Specifications
September 1995            Page 10 of 15
                          RECORD TYPE C1 - CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT
RECORD (continued)
Field     Item                 Example Position    Description
  27       End of Record Code   "XQ"         137-140   Always
contains the letters XQ capitalized
                                                        with no
space between them to indicate
                                                        the end
of the record.
                                                       Format:
Include quotation marks.
Note:  All fields are separated by commas.
         1         2         3         4         5         6
  7         8         9
12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345
6789012345678901234567890123456
Sample records:
1060,"LBIL","C1",1009,"I   ",1090.0,"B ","C ","  ","  ","  ","
","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ",
1061,"LBIL","C1",9999,"I   ",9999.0,"B ","  ","  ","  ","  ","
","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ",
1062,"LBIL","C1",1018,"I   ",1190.0,"ZZ","  ","  ","  ","  ","
","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ",
                                          - OR -
1060,"LBIL","C1",   0,"    ",   0.0,"  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","
","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ",
                                          __
   1         1         1         1         1
9  0         1         2         3         4
78901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
Continuation of sample records:
"  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","XQ"
"  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","XQ"
"  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","XQ"
             - OR -
"  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","XQ"
FCC Report 43-09A - Automated Report Specifications
September 1995                     Page 11 of 15
                                  RECORD TYPE F1 - FOOTNOTE TEXT
RECORD
Field     Item                Example  Position    Description
  1   Record Number      1063           1-4        The sequential
number of this record
   (for this record)                                within this
data file plus 1000.
                                                        Format:
Right justified and space filled.
  2   COSA               "LBIL"        6-11        The COSA code
for the filing entity.
                                                        Format:
Include quotation marks.
  3   Record Type        "F1"          13-16      Always contains
the letter F capitalized
                                                        and the
number 1 with no space between them.
                                                       Format:
Include quotation marks.
  4   Record Number      1003          18-21       This field
contains the record number of
   (for the footnoted                               the record
which contains the footnoted
        data)                                            data.
If the footnote pertains to the
                                                         entire
column(s), an entire table, or the
                                                         entire
submission, use 9999.
                                                        Format:
Right justified and space filled.
  5   Table Number       "I   "        23-28       This field
contains the table number (Roman
numerals) of the table in which the
footnoted data appear.  If the footnote
                                                         pertains
to an entire table or the entire
submission, use "ZZZZ".
                                                        Format:
Include quotation marks.
Left justified and space filled.
  6   Row Number         1090.0       30-35        This field
contains the row number of the
                                                         row
which contains the footnoted data as
identified in the accompanying Report
Definition.  If the footnote pertains
                                                         to the
entire column(s), an entire table,
                                                         or the
entire submission, enter 9999.0.
                                                        Format:
Right justified and space filled,
with one decimal place.
   7  Column Label       "ZZ"        37-40         This field
contains the column letter(s) of the
footnoted data as identified in the accompanying
                                                         Report
Definition.  If the footnote pertains
                                                         to an
entire row, an entire table, or the
                                                         entire
submission, enter "ZZ".
                                                        Format:
Include quotation marks.
Left justified and space filled.
  8   Footnote Number       1              42-44   The number of
this particular footnote.
                                                        Valid
range:  1 to 999.
                                                        Format:
Right justified and space filled.
  9   Sequence Number       1              46-47   The sequence
number of the record
                                                         within
the footnote.  In other words,
                                                         the
order of the specific record in the
                                                         sequence
of records which, when combined,
                                                         will
provide the entire footnote.
                                                        Valid
range:  1 to 99.
                                                        Format:
Right justified and space filled.
 10   Footnote Text  "Footnote text   "  49-105    The text of
the footnote or of the
                    (Spaces until pos. 105)
continuation line.  Footnote text must be
explained fully.
                                                        Format:
Include quotation marks at the
beginning and end of this field
and left justify within these
quotation marks.
FCC Report 43-09A - Automated Report Specifications
September 1995                   Page 12 of 15
                         RECORD TYPE F1 - FOOTNOTE TEXT RECORD
(continued)
Field     Item           Example       Position    Description
11 End of Record Code   "XQ"           107-110     Always
contains the letters XQ capitalized
                                                         with no
space between them to
                                                         indicate
the end of the record.
                                                        Format:
Include quotation marks.
Note:  All fields are separated by commas.
Footnote records are needed if any data for the current period
differ materially  from  those for
the previous period or the corresponding period of the preceding
year and the   difference is not
self-explanatory but was caused by unusual circumstances.
Footnote records are also needed if the
procedures described in the row and column instructions are not
followed.  The  carrier  must include
footnote text to fully explain the specific circumstances or any
deviations from the procedures.
See section D of the accompanying Reporting Procedures for a
discussion of footnotes.
                                1         1
         1         2         3         4         5         6
  7         8         9         0         1
12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345
678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
Sample records:
1063,"LBIL","F1",1009,"I   ",1090.0,"ZZ",  1, 1,"Footnote text
for footnote 1                           ","XQ"
1064,"LBIL","F1",1009,"I   ",1090.0,"ZZ",  1, 2,"continuation
text for footnote 1                       ","XQ"
1065,"LBIL","F1",1009,"I   ",1090.0,"ZZ",  1, 3,"last line of
footnote 1                                ","XQ"
1066,"LBIL","F1",1018,"I   ",1190.0,"B ",  2, 1,"Footnote 2
pertains to column B of Table I row 1190.0  ","XQ"
1067,"LBIL","F1",9999,"I   ",9999.0,"C ",  3, 1,"Footnote 3
pertains to all rows of Table I column C    ","XQ"
FCC Report 43-09A - Automated Report Specifications
September 1995               Page 13 of 15
                                  RECORD TYPE E1 - ERRATUM RECORD
Field     Item           Example       Position    Description
  1   Record Number      1068           1-4        The sequential
number of this record
       (for this record)                                 within
this data file plus 1000.
                                                        Format:
Right justified and space filled.
  2   COSA               "LBIL"         6-11       The COSA code
for the filing entity.
                                                        Format:
Include quotation marks.
  3   Record Type        "E1"          13-16       Always
contains the letter E capitalized
                                                         and the
number 1 with no space between them.
                         Format:  Include quotation marks.
  4   Record Number      1009          18-21       This field
contains the record number
      (for the corrected                               of the
record which contains the
     data)                                          data which
were corrected in this
submission.  If the entire column(s), an
                                                         entire
table, or the entire submission
                                                         was
corrected, use 9999.
                                                        Format:
Right justified and space filled.
  5   Table Number       "I   "        23-28       This field
contains the table number (Roman
numerals) of the table in which the corrected
                                                         data
appear.  If an entire table or
submission was corrected, use "ZZZZ".
                                                        Format:
Include quotation marks.
Left justified and space filled.
  6   Row Number            1090.0         30-35   This field
contains the row number of the
                                                         of the
row which contains the corrected
                                                         data as
identified in the accompanying
                                                         Report
Definition.  If the entire
column(s), an entire table, or the entire
submission was corrected, enter 9999.0.
                                                        Format:
Right justified and space filled,
with one decimal place.
  7   Column Label       "ZZ"           37-40      This field
contains the column letter of
                                                         the
corrected data as identified in the
accompanying Report Definition.
                                                         If an
entire row, an entire table, or
                                                         the
entire submission was corrected,
                                                         enter
"ZZ".  If more than one column
                                                         but less
than the entire row was
corrected, then populate this field
                                                         and as
many as needed of fields 8 thru 26.
                                                        Format:
Include quotation marks.
Left justified and space filled.
  8     Second Column Label            "B "            42-45
.....
  9     Third Column Label             "C "            47-50
   .       Fields 8 thru 26 are similar
  .                                                            .
   to Field 7 and are used
  .                                                             .
   when the correction is in
  .                                                            .
   the same row and more than
  .                                                           .
   one column.
 26     Twentieth Col. Label           "  "           132-135
.....        Otherwise, enter "  ".
 27     Footnote Number  1              137-139    This field
contains the footnote number
                                                         that
explains the correction.  If there
                                                         is no
footnote, use a zero.
                                                        Format:
Right justified and space filled.
FCC Report 43-09A - Automated Report Specifications
September 1995                   Page  14 of 15
                                  RECORD TYPE E1 - ERRATUM RECORD
(continued)
Field     Item           Example       Position    Description
 28   End of Record Code "XQ"          141-144     Always
contains the letters XQ capitalized
                                                         with no
space between them to indicate
                                                         the end
of the record.
                                                        Format:
Include quotation marks.
Note:  All fields are separated by commas.
         1         2         3         4         5         6
  7         8         9
12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345
6789012345678901234567890123456
Sample records:
1068,"LBIL","E1",1009,"I   ",1090.0,"ZZ","  ","  ","  ","  ","
","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ",
1069,"LBIL","E1",1018,"I   ",1190.0,"B ","C ","  ","  ","  ","
","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ",
1070,"LBIL","E1",9999,"I   ",9999.0,"C ","  ","  ","  ","  ","
","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ",
 1         1         1         1         1
90         1         2         3         4
789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234
Continuation of sample records:
"  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ",  1,"XQ"
"  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ",  2,"XQ"
"  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ",  3,"XQ"
FCC Report 43-09A - Automated Report Specifications
September 1995                  Page 15 of 15
                                   RECORD TYPE T1 - TRAILER
RECORD
Field       Item         Example       Position    Description
  1   Record Number      1071          1-4         The sequential
number of this record
                                                         within
this data file plus 1000.
                                                        Format:
Right justified and space filled.
  2   COSA               "LBIL"          6-11      The COSA code
for the filing entity.
                                                        Format:
Include quotation marks.
  3   Record Type        "T1"           13-16      Always
contains the letter T capitalized
                                                         and the
number 1 with no space between them.
                                                        Format:
Include quotation marks.
  4   Contact Person      "John Doe   "     18-59  The name of
the person to contact
                        (spaces until pos. 59)          if there
are questions about the report.
                                                        Format:
Include quotation marks.
  5   Telephone #    "(202) 555-1212 x123 "  61-82 The Contact
Person's telephone number.
                                                        Format:
Include quotation marks.
  6     End of Record Code             "XQ"           84-87
Always contains the letters XQ
capitalized with no space between them
                                                         to
indicate the end of the record.
                                                        Format:
Include quotation marks.
Note:  All fields are separated by commas.
         1         2         3         4         5         6
  7         8
12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345
6789012345678901234567
Sample record:
1071,"LBIL","T1","John Doe
","(202) 555-1212 x123 ","XQ"

A. Introduction
This document contains the page layout and detailed
specifications for the paper report to be
filed as FCC Report 43-09A, the ARMIS Video Dialtone Quarterly
Report.
B.  General Instructions
  1.             See sections B and C on pages 1 and 2 of the
accompanying Reporting Procedures for
                 a discussion of the Confidential Version, the
Public Version, and the Unrestricted
                 Version of this report and for a definition and
discussion of data items that are "Not
                 Available" or are "Withheld."
  2.             The ruler lines included on the page layouts
with the column titles are included only
                 to assist the reader.  Do not include ruler
lines as lines in the report.
  3.             The paper report must be printed on 8 1/2 inch
by 11 inch paper.  For ease of
                 preparation, an original may be produced on
larger paper and reduced to this size for
                 submission.  Copies filed must be legible and
permanent, in black ink.  The report
                 may be printed in portrait mode (8 1/2 inches
across the top of the page) or landscape
                 mode (11 inches across the top of the page).  In
portrait mode, the printing should not
                 be smaller than 17 characters per inch and 8
lines per inch; in landscape mode, the
                 printing should not be smaller than 15
characters per inch and 10 lines per inch.
C.   Data Entry Conventions
  1.             If an entry is to be a subtraction, indicate so
by placing a minus sign   in the column
                 immediately preceding the numeric data, e.g.,
use -4 or (4), NOT - 4.
  2.             Items that need not be reported because they do
not apply are designated by N/A.  If
                 a "Public Version" report is filed, enter W/H in
any numeric data field for which data
                 are "Withheld". DO NOT override N/As.  If a
reporting carrier wishes to apply data
                 to a field containing an N/A, the carrier must
enter, as a footnote to the field, the
                 amount(s) and an explanation.  All other fields
must be populated.  If there are no
                 data applicable to an open field enter zero.
  3.             Unless otherwise indicated, line items must
reflect the results of video dialtone
                 operations as of the end of the reporting
period.

D.  Rounding Conventions
  1.             As specified in the accompanying Report
Definition, all dollar amounts must be
                 rounded to the nearest thousand dollars.
  2.             All percentage amounts must be entered in
percent and must be rounded to two
                 places.
                    Example:  23.70561 should be entered as 23.71
E.   Footnotes
  1.             If any data for the current period differs
materially from those for the previous period
                 and the difference is not self-explanatory but
was caused by unusual circumstances not
                 explained in a previous report, then include
footnote text to explain the specific
                 circumstances.
  2.             If the reporting carrier does not follow the
procedures described in the row and
                 column instructions of the attached Report
Definition, it must explain any deviations
                 from those procedures in an explanatoy footnote.
Such footnotes must provide
                 detailed explanations of the procedures actually
used by the carrier and its specific
                 reasons for deviating from procedures prescribed
by the Commission's Rules. This
                 provision should not be interpreted to mean that
deviations from the prescribed rules
                 will automatically be approved by the
Commission.
  3.             Footnotes must be included in the footnote
table(s) of the paper report, not on
                 individual table pages.
F.  Errata
  1.             Carriers are under a legal obligation to correct
any erroneous data discovered in FCC
                 Report 43-09A. Submission containing corrected
data must include references to
                 indicate which data items were corrected since
previous submission.
  2.             These references must be included in the erratum
table(s) of the paper report.
E.  Page Layouts
  1.             The page layout for this report is illustrated
in the Forms Section of the accompanying
                 Report Definition.

  2.             The following note must appear at the bottom of
all pages, where applicable.  THE
                 COMPANY HAS REQUESTED CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT FOR
SOME
                 DATA ON THIS PAGE.  SEE THE CONFIDENTIAL
TREATMENT TABLE FOR
                 SPECIFIC INFORMATION.
     4.   The Paper Report will consist of the following pages in
order:
                                                    Illustrated
in
                                             Paper Report Specs.
                                                  on Page
     The Cover Page                               4
                                                Illustrated in
                                             Report Definition
Forms
                                                   on Page
     Table 1 - Video Dialtone Costs and Revenue Data       2
through 4
                                                  Illustrated in
                                               Paper Report
Specs.
                                                  on Page
     The Confidential Treatment Table
     (at least one page and as many pages as needed)   5
     The Footnote Table
     (at least one page and as many pages as needed)   6
     The Erratum Table
     (for submission number 2 or higher,
      as many as needed)                          7
     The Certification Page                       8

FCC Report 43-09A - Paper Report Specifications          Sept.
1995                  Page 4 of 8
FCC Report 43-09A     Approved by OMB
September 1995        3060-0680
       Expires 12/31/96
       Estimated Avg. Burden Per Response: 15-20 Hrs
FEDERAL COMMUNICATION COMMISSION
WASH                       INGTON, D.C. 20554
ARMI                   S Video Dialtone Quarterly
REPO                               RT
                                  For                  the ______
Quarter of 19
Name of Company:
Address of Company:
FCC Report 43-09A is prescribed for every local exchanage carrier
that has obtained Section 214
Authorization(s) from the Commission to provide video dialtone
trials or commercial services.  The
ARMIS Video Dialtone Quarterly Report collects highly aggregated
financial data reflecting accounting
results for the investment, expense, and revenue related to the
provision of video dialtone service
as required by the Video Dialtone Reconsideration Order and in
accordance with Part 32 and
Responsible Accounting Officer Letter 25 ("RAO Letter 25").  The
ARMIS Video Dialtone Quarterly
Report specifies information requirements in a consistent format
and is essential for the FCC's
efforts to monitor video dialtone deployment and its effect on
telephone ratepayers.  Carriers must
file this response upon receiving Section 214 authorizations to
provide video dialtone service.  Your
response is mandatory.
Public reporting burden for this collection of information is
estimated to average 15-20 hours per
response, including the time for reviewing instructions,
searching existing data sources, gathering
and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the
collection of information.  Send
comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of
this collection of information,
including suggestions for reducing the burden to the Federal
Communications Commission, Records
Management Branch, Washington, D.C. 20554.

FCC REPORT 43-09A     Approved by OMB
ARMIS VDT QUARTERLY REPORT             3060-0680
                                                        Expires
12/31/96
COMPANY:     xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx   xxxxxxxxxxxx
VERSION
STUDY AREA:  xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx       SUBMISSION x
PERIOD:      From mmm yyyy to mmm yyyy  CONF. TREATMENT TABLE
COSA:        xxxx      PAGE 1 OF x
     CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT TABLE
Table      Row         Column(s)
-----------
-----------------------------------------------------------
 (a)              (b)  (c)
xxxx 1234.1      xx,xx,xx,xx, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x,
x,... Ruler Line
sample entries:
  I  1090.0      B ,C ,
  I  ALL         B
  I  1190.0      ALL
THE COMPANY HAS REQUESTED CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT FOR THE ABOVE
DATA IN THIS REPORT.
                              -OR-
THE COMPANY HAS NOT REQUESTED CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT FOR ANY
DATA IN THIS REPORT.

FCC REPORT 43-09A     Approved by OMB
ARMIS VDT QUARTERLY REPORT             3060-0680
                                                        Expires
12/31/96
COMPANY:     xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  xxxxxxxxxxxx VERSION
STUDY AREA:  xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx      SUBMISSION x
PERIOD:      From mmm yyyy to mmm yyyy FOOTNOTE TABLE
COSA:        xxxx     PAGE 1 OF x
     FOOTNOTE TABLE
Table      Row   Col  FN#   Footnote
---- ------      ---   --
-------------------------------------------------------
 (a)       (b)    (c) (d)   (e)
xxxx 1234.1  xxx 12   xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
... Ruler Line
sample entries:
  I  1090.0 ALL  1    Footnote text for footnote 1
                      continuation text for footnote 1
                      last line of footnote 1
  I  1190.0  B   2    Footnote 2 pertains to column B of Table I
row 1190.0
  I  ALL   C     3    Footnote 3 pertains to all rows of Table I
column C
                                              -OR-
                    THERE ARE NO FOOTNOTES FOR THIS SUBMISSION.

FCC REPORT 43-09A     Approved by OMB
ARMIS VDT QUARTERLY REPORT             3060-0680
                                                        Expires
12/31/96
COMPANY:     xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  xxxxxxxxxxxx VERSION
STUDY AREA:  xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx      SUBMISSION x
PERIOD:      From mmm yyyy to mmm yyyy ERRATUM TABLE
COSA:        xxxx     PAGE 1 OF x
                                    ERRATUM TABLE
TableRow    Column(s) FN#
---- ------       -----------------------------------------------
      ---
 (a) (b)   (c)        (d)
xxxx 1234.1  xx,xx,xx,xx, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, 12
... Ruler Line
sample entries:
  I  1090.0  ALL      1
  I  1190.0  B        2
  I  ALL   C          3
THE ABOVE DATA HAVE BEEN CORRECTED IN THIS SUBMISSION.
SEE THE FOOTNOTE TABLE FOR FOOTNOTES WHERE APPLICABLE.

CERTIFICATION
I certify that I am an officer of
                                            ;
that I have examined the foregoing report             and that to
the best of my knowledge,
information, and belief, all statements of fact contained in this
report are true and that said report
is an accurate statement of the affairs of the above named
respondent in respect to the data set
forth herein for the period from                      to
          .
PRINTED NAME
POSITION
SIGNATURE
DATE
(Persons making willful false statements in this report form can
be punished
by fine or imprisonment under the Communications Act, 47 U.S.C.
220(e).)
CONTACT PERSON
TELEPHONE NUMBER
Company and Study Area Code (COSA) Table
September 1995                                 Page 1  of 6
                             DIVESTED BOC INDEX
                             Combined         Combined
                             Operating        Study    COSA
   Holding CompanyCompanies   Operating Company        Areas
             Study Area               Code
   Ameritech      AMTR
                  1.  Illinois Bell           - Illinois
                                      LBIL
                                              2.  Indiana Bell
                                      - Indiana      NBIN
                                              3.  Michigan Bell
                                      - Michigan          MBMI
                                              4.  Ohio Bell
                                      - Ohio         OBOH
                                              5.  Wisconsin Bell
                                      - Wisconsin         WTWI
   Bell Atlantic Network Serv. Corp.          BATR
                  1.  the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone
Companies            CPTC
                                              1.  C&P (D.C.)
                                      - Dist. of Columbia CDDC
                                     2.  C&P of Maryland
                                      - Maryland     CMMD
                                              3.  C&P of Virginia
                                      - Virginia     CVVA
                                              4.  C&P of West
Virginia          - West Virginia          CWWV
                  2.  Bell of PA and Diamond State     PDTC
                                              5.  Diamond State
Telephone       - Delaware               DSDE
                                              6.  Bell of
Pennsylvania          - Pennsylvania           PAPA
                                              7.  New Jersey Bell
             - New Jersey             NJNJ
   BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc.
                                                BSTR
                                      - Florida
SBFL
                                      - Georgia
SBGA
                                      - North Carolina
SBNC
                                      - South Carolina
SBSC
                                      - Alabama
SCAL
                                      - Kentucky
SCKY
                                      - Louisiana
SCLA
                                      - Mississippi
SCMS
                                      - Tennessee
SCTN
   NYNEX
                                                NXTR
                                              1.  New England
Telephone                                            NETC
                                      - Maine
NEME
                                      - Massachusetts
NEMA
                                      - New Hampshire
NENH
                                      - Rhode Island
NERI
                                      - Vermont
 NEVT
                                              2.  New York
Telephone            - New York                         NYNY
   Pacific Telesis
                                                PTTR
                                              1.  Pacific Bell
             - California             PTCA
                                              2.  Nevada Bell
             - Nevada                 PTNV
  Company and Study Area (COSA) List
September 1995                                    Page 2  of 6
                             DIVESTED BOC INDEX
                             Combined         Combined
                             Operating        Study    COSA
   Holding CompanyCompanies   Operating Company        Areas
             Study Area               Code
   Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.
                                      SWTR
                                                       - Arkansas
             SWAR
                                      - Kansas
SWKS
                                      - Missouri
SWMO
                                      - Oklahoma
 SWOK
                                      - Texas
SWTX
                                                       all except
Kansas
SWAG
   U.S. West Communications, Inc.
USTR
                                      - Arizona
MSAZ
                                      - Colorado
MSCO
                                      - Idaho
MSID
                                      - Montana
MSMT
                                      - New Mexico
MSNM
                                      - Utah
MSUT
                                      - Wyoming
MSWY
                                      - Iowa
NWIA
                                      - Minnesota
NWMN
                                      - Nebraska
NWNE
                                      - North Dakota
NWND
                                      - South Dakota
NWSD
                                      - Idaho
PNID
                                      - Oregon
PNOR
                                      - Washington
PNWA
 Total Divested Bell Operating Companies
TBOC
Company and Study Area (COSA) List
September 1995                                 Page 3 of 6
                          INDEPENDENT COMPANY INDEX
                             Combined         Combined
                             Operating        Study    COSA
   Holding CompanyCompanies   Operating Company        Areas
             Study Area               Code
   Alascom, Inc.
                                      - Alaska
AKAK
   Cincinnati Bell Telephone                  - Ohio & Kentucky
                                      CBTC
   Citizens Telecom                           CTTC
                  1. Citizens Utilities
             - California             CUCA
                  2. Citizens Telcom of New York       - New York
             CTNY
                  - Upstate  CTUP
                  - Red Hook CTRH
                  - Western Counties          CTWC
                  3. Citizens Telcom of West Virg.     -
Contel/West Virginia   CTCW
                  4. Citizens Telcom of West Virg.     - GTE/West
Virginia      CTGW
                  5. Citizens Telcom of Tennessee      -
Tennessee              CTTN
                  6. Citizens Telcom of Arizona        - Arizona
             CTAZ
                  7. Citizens Telcom of Arizona        -
Contel/Arizona         CTCZ
   Commonwealth Telephone Co.
                                      - Pennsylvania
CWTC
   GTE Service Operations
GTTC
                                              1.  GTE California
Inc.           - California             GTCA
                                              2.  GTE Florida
Inc.              - Florida                GTFL
                                              3.  GTE Northwest
Inc.                                     GTNW
                                      - Idaho
GTID
                                      - Montana
GTMT
                                      - Oregon
GTOR
                                      - Washington
GTWA
                                      - West Coast CA
GNCA
                             - Contel/Oregon
             COOR
                                      - Contel/Washington
 COWA
                                              4.  GTE South Inc.
GTSO
                                      - Alabama
GTAL
                                      - Georgia
GTGA
                                      - Kentucky
GTKY
                                      - North Carolina
GTNC
                                                       - South
Carolina         GTSC
                                                               -
Virginia               GTVA
                  - Illinois GLIL
                  5.  GTE Southwest Inc.
                                      GTSW
                                      - Arkansas
GTAR
                                      - New Mexico
GTNM
                                      - Oklahoma
GTOK
                                      - Texas
GTTX
Company and Study Area (COSA) List
September 1995                                   Page 4 of 6
                          INDEPENDENT COMPANY INDEX
                             Combined         Combined
                             Operating        Study    COSA
   Holding CompanyCompanies   Operating Company        Areas
             Study Area               Code
   GTE Service Corporation   6.  GTE North Inc.
                                      GTMW
                                      - Illinois
GTIL
                                      - Indiana
GTIN
                                      - Michigan
GTMI
                                      - Ohio
GTOH
                             - Pennsylvania            GTPA
                                      - Wisconsin
GTWI
                                      - General Offices
GTGO
                                      - Contel/Illinois
 COIL
                                      - Contel/Indiana
 COIN
                  - Contel of Pennsylvania    COPT
                                      - Pennsylvania
COPA
                                      - Quaker State
COQS
                  7.  GTE Midwest Inc.        GTMD
                  - Iowa                      GTIA
                  - Minnesota                 GTMN
                                      - Missouri
GTMO
                                      - Nebraska
GTNE
                                                       - Contel
of Iowa Comp.                            COIT
                                      - Contel/Iowa
 COIA
                                      - Contel/Systems of Iowa
 COSI
                                                       - Contel
of Missouri Comp.                        COMT
                                      - Contel/Missouri
 COMO
                                      - Contel/Systems of
Missouri       COCM
                                      - Contel/Eastern Missouri
 COEM
                  8.  GTE Hawaiian Tel. Co. Inc.       - Hawaii
             GTHI
                                              9.  GTE Alaska
             - Alaska                 GTAK
                  1.  Continental Telephone Company    COTC
                  1.  Contel of Texas         COTX
                  2.  Contel of Virginia      COVA
                  3.  Contel of California             COCT
                                      - Contel Cal/California
      COCA
             - Contel Cal/Nevada
CONV
                  4.  Contel of the South     COSO
                  - Contel So/Alabama         COAL
                  - Indiana  GLIN
                  - Michigan GLMI
                  - Contel/Kentucky           COKY
                  - Contel/Minnesota          COMN
                  - Contel/North Carolina     CONC
                  - Contel/South Carolina     COSC
Company and Study Area (COSA) List
September 1995                                      Page 5 of 6
                          INDEPENDENT COMPANY INDEX
                             Combined         Combined
                             Operating        Study    COSA
   Holding CompanyCompanies   Operating Company        Areas
             Study Area               Code
                  - Contel of Arkansas Total  COAT
                  - Contel of Arkansas        COAR
                  - Systems of Arkansas       COSA
   Lincoln Telephone Company                  - Nebraska
             LTNE
   Puerto Rico Telephone Company
                                      - Puerto Rico
PRPR
   Rochester Telephone Operating Companines
                                      RTTC
                                              1.  Rochester
Telephone           - New York               RTNY
                                              2.  Ausable Valley
Telephone      - New York               RTAV
                                              3.  Breezewood
Telephone          - Pennsylvania           RTBT
                                              4.  CC&S Telco
             - Michigan               RTCM
                                      - Ohio
RTCO
                                              5.  Canton
Telephone              - Pennsylvania           RTCT
                                              6.  Enterprise
Telephone          - Pennsylvania           RTET
                                              7.  Highland
Telephone            - New York               RTHT
                                              8.  Inland
Telephone              - Illinois               RTIT
                                              9.  Lakeshore
Telephone           - Wisconsin              RTLW
                                              10.  Lakeside
Telephone           - Illinois               RTLI
                                              11.  Lakewood
Telephone           - Pennsylvania           RTLP
                                              12.  Monroeville
Telephone        - Alabama                RTMA
                                              13.  Mt. Pulaski
Telephone        - Illinois               RTMP
                                              14.  Midland
Telephone            - Illinois               RTMT
                                              15.  Midway
Telephone             - Michigan               RTMM
                                              16.  Mondovi
Telephone            - Wisconsin              RTMW
                                              17.  Ontonogan
Telephone          - Michigan               RTOT
                                              18.  Oswayo River
Telephone       - Pennsylvania           RTOS
                                              19.  Prairie
Telephone            - Illinois               RTPT
                                              20.  S & A
Telephone              - Kansas                 RTKS
                                              21.  Senca Gorham
Telephone       - New York               RTSG
                                              22.  Sylvan Lake
Telephone        - New York               RTSL
                                                       23.
Southland Telephone                          - Alabama
   RTSA
                                      - Florida
RTSF
                                              24.  Schuyler
Telephone           - Iowa                   RTSO
                                      - Illinois
RTSI
                                              25.  Thorntown
Telephone          - Indiana                RTTT
                                              26.  Urban
Telephone              - Wisconsin              RTUW
   Southern New England Telephone
                                      - Connecticut
SNCT
Company and Study Area (COSA) List
September 1995                                       Page 6 of 6
                          INDEPENDENT COMPANY INDEX
                             Combined         Combined
                             Operating        Study    COSA
   Holding CompanyCompanies   Operating Company        Areas
             Study Area               Code
   SPRINT/Centel Telephone Company
                                           CETC
                                              1.  Central of
Florida            - Florida                CEFL
                                              2.  Central of
Illinois           - Illinois               CEIL
                                              3.  Central of
Virginia           - Virginia               CEVA
                                              4.  Central
Telephone Company                              CETO
                                      - North Carolina
CENC
                                      - Nevada
CENV
                                              5.  Central of
Texas              - Texas                  CETX
   SPRINT/United Telephone  Company
                                      UTTC
                                              1.   United Tel.
Co. of Florida   - Florida                UTFL
                                              2.   United Tel.
Co. of Indiana   - Indiana                UTIN
                                              3.   United Tel.
Co. of Kansas    - Kansas                 UTKS
                                              4.   United Tel.
Co. of Minn.     - Minnesota              UTMN
                                              5.   United Tel.
Co. of Missouri  - Missouri               UTMO
                                              6.   United Tel.
Co. of Neb.      - Nebraska               UTNE
                                              7.   United Tel.
Co. of N. Jer.   - New Jersey             UTNJ
                                              8.   Carolina Tel.
and Tel. Co.   - North Carolina         UTNC
                             9.   United Tel. Co. of Ohio
             - Ohio                   UTOH
                  10. United of the Northwest UTNW
             - Oregon                 UTOR
                  - Washington                UTWA
                  11.  United Tel. Co. of Penn.        -
Pennsylvania           UTPA
                                              12.  United Tel.
Co. of S. C.     - South Carolina         UTSC
                                              13.  United Tel.
Co. of Texas     - Texas                  UTTX
                                              14.  United Tel.
Co. of Wyoming   - Wyoming                UTWY
                                              15.  United of the
Southeast Inc                           UTIM
                                      - Tennessee
UTTN
                                      - Virginia
UTVA
    Altel Telephone Company Total             ALTC
                  1.  Altel of Pennsylvania   - Pennsylvania
             ALPA
                  2.  Georgia Communication Corp       - Georgia
             ALGC
    AT&T Communications
                                           ATTC
    Vista Telephone Companies
                                           VITC
    Western Reserve Telephone                 WRTC
    Total Independent Companies
                                           TICO
    Total Industry
                                           TOTL
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FCC Report 43-09B - Instructions         September 1995
                    Page 1 of 1
This document provides the instructions for FCC Report 43-09B,
the ARMIS Video Dialtone Fourth Quarter
Report, which was adopted by the Common Carrier Bureau to
establish reporting requirements  on video
dialtone costs and jurisdictional separations for local exchange
carriers offering video dialtone service.  The
instructions consist of the following five sections, which are
attached:
1.Reporting Procedures - details on the specific procedures to be
followed when submitting this report to the
Commission.
2.Reporting Definition - an illustration of the rows and columns
to be reported and their definitions.
3.Automated Report Specifications - the detailed automated data
processing (ADP) specifications for the
automated report to be filed.
4.Paper Report Specifications - the page layout and detailed
specifications for the paper report to be filed.
5.COSA Code Table - the list of four letter COSA codes (CO =
Company, SA = Study Area).
A. Introduction
This document contains details on the specific procedures to be
followed when submitting FCC Report 43-
09B, the ARMIS Video Dialtone Fourth Quarter Report, to the
Commission.
B. General Information
                1.       FCC Report 43-09B was adopted by the
Common Carrier Bureau to
                         establish the reporting requirements on
video dialtone costs and
                         jurisdictional separations for local
exchange carriers offering video
                         dialtone service.  The report is
prescribed for every local exchange
                         carrier that has obtained Section 214
Authorization(s) from the
                         Commission to provide video dialtone
trials or commercial services.
                2.       Affected carriers shall file by March 31
of each year the report for the
                         previous calendar year.
                3.       The report shall be filed on a study
area (jurisdiction) basis.
                4.       Carriers seeking proprietary treatment
for some data must provide two
                         versions of each paper and automated
report.  The Confidential Version
                         must contain all the required
information (Confidential Treatment
                         Tables/Data Records are provided to
identify confidential data).  The
                         Public Version should not include data
for which the carrier is seeking
                         proprietary treatment.  The carrier
should prominently label the paper
                         report and the diskette containing
information subject to a claim of
                         confidentiality to prevent inadvertent
disclosure.
                5.       Carriers not seeking proprietary
treatment for any data should provide
                         only one version of each paper report
and diskette, and the paper report
                         and the diskette should be labeled the
Unrestricted Version.
                6.       The Confidential Treatment Tables/Data
Records are to be included in all
                         reports but are not a substitute for
applying for confidential treatment
                         with this Commission following
established Commission procedures.
                7.       Each report and diskette must be clearly
labeled to include the report
                         number, company, study area, period,
COSA code, version and
                         submission number.  The report number is
43-09B, which identifies the
                         filing as the ARMIS Video Dialtone
Quarterly Report.  The period
                         identifies the year and quarter covered
by the data.  See the attached
                         COSA Code Table (CO = Company, SA =
Study Area) for a list of
                         companies and their respective COSAs.
The version refers to whether
                         the filing is the Confidential, Public
or Unrestricted Version.  The
                         submission number is defined as follows:
Submission 0 is for test data
                         purposes only.  Submission 1 is the
first submission of a quarter's data.
                         Higher numbers (2, 3, etc.) would be
used if needed for successive
                         revisions to correct that quarter's
submission.
                8.       All correspondence and pleadings shall
identify the proceeding as
                         Reporting Requirements on Video Dialtone
Costs and Jurisdictional
                         Separations for Local Exchange Carriers
Offering Video Dialtone
                         Services, AAD No. 95-59.
C.  Data Items That Are "Not Available" or Are "Withheld"
                1.       The term "Not Available" is used below
to refer only to those items
                         which the Commission ruled are not
applicable to a particular
                         row/column or are not required for a
particular filing entity.  The
                         Confidential Version must contain values
for all of the data items except
                         those items which are "Not Available."
If, in addition to the required
                         study area reports, a carrier submits a
report which combines data for
                         more than one study area, and this
report includes a field such as a sum,
                         a ratio, or a percentage that cannot be
computed completely and
                         accurately because it relies on another
item which the Commission has
                         ruled is a "Not Available" item, then
that field is also considered to be
                         "Not Available."
                2.       The term "Withheld" is used below to
refer only to those items for which
                         the carrier has applied for confidential
treatment with the Commission
                         and is only applicable to the Public
Version.  If a field such as a sum, a
                         ratio or percentage relies on an item or
items which have been withheld
                         and that field is not also withheld,
then it must include the withheld
                         amount.  For example, a carrier could
withhold the individual values for
                         two of three numbers which are totaled.
If the carrier does not also
                         apply for confidential treatment for the
total, then that total must be the
                         sum of all three numbers, not just the
one which was not withheld.  The
                         Public Version must contain values for
all of the data items except those
                         items which are "Not Available" or those
items which have been
                         "Withheld".
                3.       See paragraph C.11 in the attached
Automated Report Specifications and
                         paragraph C.7 in the attached Paper
Report Specifications for data entry
                         conventions for these items.
D.  Where to File
                1.       Carriers submitting FCC Report 43-09B
should consult the schedule
                         below which details the number of copies
required and the location to
                         which those copies should be delivered.
                2.       Carriers are reminded that they must
serve a copy of either the
                         Unrestricted Version or the Public
Version of both the paper report and
                         the automated report (diskette) on the
FCC contractor for public records
                         duplication.

                              NUMBER OF COPIES
              FOR CARRIERS NOT SEEKING PROPRIETARY TREATMENT
                         Unre-          Unre-
                         Trans-
                stricted stricted
                         mittal
Paper                    Automated
                         Letter
Report          Report
                         (diskette)
FCC Secretary
1919 M Street, N.W.
Room 222
Washington, D.C. 20554                    1       -
                    -
FCC Common Carrier Bureau
Accounting & Audits Div.
2000 L Street, N.W.
Room 812
Washington, D.C. 20554     2              2
                    2
FCC Common Carrier Bureau
Industry Analysis Div.
1919 M Street, N.W.
Room 534
Washington, D.C. 20554     1              1
                    1
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                              Trans-    dential
dential         Public     Public
                              mittal    Paper
Automated       Paper      Automated
                              Letter    Report
Report          Report   Report
(diskette)                 (diskette)
FCC Secretary
1919 M Street, N.W.
Room 222
Washington, D.C. 20554   1                  -      -
     -                  -
FCC Common Carrier Bureau
Accounting & Audits Div.
2000 L Street, N.W.
Room 812
Washington, D.C. 20554   3                  1      1
     2                  2
FCC Common Carrier Bureau
Industry Analysis Div.
1919 M Street, N.W.
Room 534
Washington, D.C. 20554   1                  -      -
     1                  1
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2100 M Street N.W.
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Washington, D.C. 20037   1                  -      -
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E.  Footnotes
                1.       If any data for the current period
differs materially from those for the
                         previous period or the corresponding
period of the preceding year and the
                         difference is not self-explanatory but
was caused by unusual
                         circumstances, the filing carrier must
include footnote text to explain the
                         specific circumstances fully.
                2.       Footnotes must contain full
explanations.
                         EXAMPLE:
                         Do not say, "Data are compiled using a
more inclusive process than in
                         previous filing."
                         Do say, "Data are compiled using a
process that includes xxx, which was
                         not included in previous filings.  The
impact of including xxx in this row
                         inflates this number by x% over the
previous reporting period."
                3.       If the reporting carrier does not follow
the procedures described in the
                         row and column instructions of the
attached Report Definition, it must
                         fully explain any deviations from those
procedures.
                         EXAMPLE:
                         Do not say, "This value was not
calculated pursuant to the instructions."
                         Do, say "This value was calculated using
the xxx method rather than the
                         method described in the instructions
because..."
                4.       Fully explain means the footnote will
provide enough information for the
                         data user to understand the
circumstances.
                         EXAMPLES:
                         Do not say, "Corrected Data."
                         Do say, "$xxxx is changed to $xxxx
because ..."
                         Do not say, "Waiver" or Waiver Granted."
                         Do say, "Waiver of Part xx.xxx was
granted in CC Docket No. xx-xxx,
                         x FCC Rcd, xxxx (1992) to allow Any
Company to .... because...."
                5.       Do not include explanatory footnotes in
the transmittal letter.  The
                         Footnote text must be included in the
Footnote Text Records and the
                         Footnote Table as specified in the
attached Automated Report
                         Specifications and the attached Paper
Report Specifications.
F.  Errata
                1.       Carriers are under a legal obligation to
correct any erroneous data
                         discovered in FCC Report 43-09B.
Submissions containing corrected
                         data must include references to indicate
which data items were corrected
                         since previous submission.
                2.       These references must be included in the
Erratum Records and the
                         Erratum Table as specified in the
attached Automated Report
                         Specifications and the attached Paper
Report Specifications.
G.  Certification
                1.       Carriers must certify the accuracy of
the data submitted in FCC Report
                         43-09B by including a signed
certification statement as the last page of
                         the paper report.
                2.       The text of the certification statement
is included on page 17 of the
                         attached Report Definition.
H.  Waivers
                1.       If a carrier determines that it will be
unable to provide data required by
                         FCC Report 43-09B, it must file an
application for waiver with the
                         Commission following established
Commission procedures.  All such
                         requests from a carrier should be
included in a single application.  The
                         application must demonstrate good cause
for reporting a different or
                         lower level of detail and indicate how
these deficiencies will be
                         corrected.
                2.       Carriers are strongly encouraged to
comply with the requirements.
                         Omission of individual data items or
entries, without request for waiver,
                         is unacceptable.  One reason that
compliance with the full requirements
                         is so important is that omission of any
single data entry by any carrier
                         will jeopardize the accuracy of
aggregate industry information.
I.  Public Information
                1.       The public or unrestricted versions of
the paper reports filed as Report
                         43-09B may be examined by the public
from 9:00 to 12:00 p.m. and
                         from 1:00 to 4:00 p.m., Monday through
Friday, in Room 812, 2000 L
                         Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.
                2.       Copies of the public or unrestricted
versions of the paper or automated
                         reports filed as FCC Report 43-09B may
be obtained from the FCC's
                         contractor for public records
duplication, ITS at 2100 M Street, N.W.
                         Suite 140, Washington, D.C. 20037.
Parties should  contact Wilbur
                         Thomas or ITS (202) 857-3800.
For further information regarding these procedures, contact:
                                    Ken Ackerman
                                    FCC Common Carrier Bureau
                                    Accounting and Audits
Division
                                    (202) 418-0810

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                                   SUMMARY
This document provides the Report Definition for FCC Report
43-09B, the ARMIS  VDT Fourth Quarter
Report, and lists all wholly dedicated and shared investment,
expenses, revenue, and jurisdictional
separations data related to local exchange carrier provision of
video dialtone service.  Carriers must provide
these data for all four quarters by study area.
                         Pages
Table 1 - Video Dialtone Costs and Revenue Data        3 through
8
Row and Column Descriptions                    9
through 16
Certification                   17
All monetary figures must be rounded to the nearest thousand
dollar amount.  All percentage amounts must
be rounded to two decimal places.  Unless otherwise indicated,
line items must reflect the results of video
dialtone operations as of the end of the reporting period.
Items which need not be reported because they do not apply are
designated by "N/A".  All other fields must
be populated.  If there are no dollar amounts related to video
dialtone operations for a given field, enter zero.
Do not include explanatory notes in the transmittal letter; such
notes must be included in the footnote section
of the filing.
NOTICE:  FCC Report 43-09B collects highly aggregated financial
data reflecting accounting results for the
investment, expense, revenue and separations related to the
provision of video dialtone service as required
by the Video Dialtone Reconsideration Order and in accordance
with Parts 32, 36 and Responsible
Accounting Officer Letter 25 ("RAO Letter 25").  FCC Report
43-09B specifies information requirements
in a consistent format and is essential to the FCC to monitor
video dialtone deployment and its effect on
subscribers to basic local telephone service.  Carriers must file
this annual report after receiving Section 214
authorization to provide video dialtone service.
Public reporting burden for this collection of information is
estimated to average 45-55 hours per response,
including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing
data sources, gathering and maintaining the
data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection of
information.  Send comments regarding this
burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of
information, including suggestions for reducing the
burden, to the Federal Communications Commission, Records
Management Branch, Washington, D.C.
20554.

                            GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
This FCC Report 43-09B requires the annual reporting of data for
14 columns and 57 rows.  The rows
generally correspond to rows contained in FCC Report 43-01 ARMIS
Quarterly Report.  Some rows may
not apply to video dialtone.  These rows are designated "N/A".
Carriers should place a zero in any cell that
have no dollar amounts related to their video dialtone
operations.
                             COLUMN INSTRUCTIONS
Column
   b                                    Total - This column
contains the end-of-year
                                        balance for each row item
included in this report.
   c                                    Shared - This column
reflects the total amount in
                                        each row contained in the
carriers' subsidiary
                                        accounting records
established to capture the
                                        investment, expenses and
revenue shared between
                                        video dialtone and the
provision of other services.
   d                                    Shared Allocated to VDT -
This column reflects
                                        the amount of column (c)
that is allocated to video
                                        dialtone.
   e                                    Dedicated VDT - This
column reflects the amount
                                        in each row contained in
the carriers' subsidiary
                                        accounting records
established to capture the
                                        investment, expenses and
revenue wholly dedicated
                                        to the provision of video
dialtone service.
   f                                    Total VDT - This column
reflects the total of
                                        column (d) plus column
(e).
   g                                    VDT % Total - This column
reflects the result of
                                        column (f) divided by
column (b) x 100.   The
                                        result should be rounded
to two decimal places.
                                        For example 23.70516
should be shown as 23.71.
   h                                    Nonregulated VDT - This
column reflects the
                                        amount of each row that
relates to the provision of
                                        nonregulated video
dialtone service.  This column
                                        equals column (f) minus
column (i).
   i                                    Regulated VDT - This
column reflects the amount
                                        of each row that is
related to the provision of
                                        regulated video dialtone
service.  This column
                                        equals column (f) minus
column (h).
   j                                    Adjustments - This column
reflects adjustments
                                        necessary to arrive at
the amount subject to
                                        separations.  Examples of
such adjustments are
                                        SNFAs, intra-company
adjustments, prior period
                                        adjustments and
accounting adjustments.
   k                                    VDT Subject to
Separations - This column reflects
                                        the portion of each row
that must be allocated
                                        between state and
interstate jurisdictions pursuant
                                        to Part 36 of the
Commission's Rules.  This
                                        column equals column (i)
minus column (j).  This
                                        column should also equal
column (l) plus column
                                        (m).
   l                                    VDT State Separations -
This column reflects the
                                        portion of each row
allocated to the state
                                        jurisdiction pursuant to
Part 36 of the
                                        Commission's Rules.
   m                                    VDT Interstate
Separations - This column reflects
                                        the portion of each row
allocated to the interstate
                                        jurisdiction pursuant to
Part 36 of the
                                        Commission's Rules.
   n                                    State % Separations -
This column reflects the
                                        result of column (l)
divided by column (k) x 100.
                                        The result should be
rounded to two decimal
                                        places.  For example
23.70516 should be shown as
                                        23.71.
   o                                    Interstate % Separations
- This column reflects the
                                        result of column (m)
divided by column (k) x 100.
                                        The result should be
rounded to two decimal
                                        places.  For example
23.70516 should be shown as
                                        23.71.
                              ROW INSTRUCTIONS
Each row listed below is a summary of accounts described in Part
32 of the Commission's Rules.   Because
Part 32 does not require the same level of account detail for
Class A and Class B carriers, the instructions
listed below indicate, where applicable, different reporting for
these carriers.
Row                      Revenues
1010                     Basic Local Service - Class A:  The
total of accounts 5001 through 5060.
                         Class B:  The total of account 5000.
1020                     Network Access Services - Class A and
Class B:  The total of accounts
                         5081 through 5084.
1030                     Toll Network Services - Class A: The
total of accounts 5100, 5110 and
                         5121 through 5160, exclusive of account
5129.  Class B:  The total of
                         account 5100.
1040                     Miscellaneous - Class A:  The total of
accounts 5230 through 5250, 5261
                         through 5264, 5270 and 5280.  Class B:
The total of accounts 5200 and
                         5280.
1050                     Settlements - The total of accounts
5069, 5129, 5169 and 5269.  Carriers
                         which do not retain the Class A accounts
throughout separations reporting
                         will include these amounts in the Class
B accounts reported on rows
                         1010, 1030 and 1040.
1060                     Uncollectibles - Class A:  The total of
accounts 5301 and 5302.  Class
                         B:  The total of account 5300.
1090                     Net Revenues - Class A and Class B:  The
total of rows 1010 through
                         1050 less row 1060.
                         Expenses
1120                     Plant Specific - Class A:  The total of
accounts 6112 through 6116, 6121
                         through 6124, 6211 through 6220, 6231,
6232, 6311 through 6362, and
                         6411 through 6441.  Class B:  The total
of accounts 6110, 6120, 6210,
                         6220, 6230, 6310, and 6410.
1130                     Plant Non-Specific - Class A:  The total
of accounts 6511, 6512 and
                         6531 through 6535.  Class B:  The total
of accounts 6510 and 6530.
1140                     Customer Operations Marketing - Class A:
The total of accounts 6611
                         through 6613.  Class B:  The total of
account 6610.
1150                     Customer Operations Services - Class A:
The total of accounts 6621
                         through 6623.  Class B:  The total of
account 6620.
1160                     Corporate Operations - Class A:  The
total of accounts 6711, 6712, 6721
                         through 6728 and 6790.  Class B:  The
total of accounts 6710, 6720,
                         and 6790.
1170                     Access - Class A and Class B:  The
balance of account 6540.
1180                     Depreciation/Amortization - Class A:
The total of accounts 6561 through
                         6565.  Class B:  The total of account
6560.
1185                     FCC Expense Adjustment - This amount
shall contain the net of:  (1)
                         expense and other tax items not included
above which the Commission
                         has expressly allowed for ratemaking
purposes; and (2) expense and other
                         tax items included above which the
Commission has expressly excluded
                         for ratemaking purposes.  A positive
value represents a net allowance and
                         a negative value represents a net
disallowance.
1190                     Total Operating Expenses - Class A and
Class B:  The total of rows 1120
                         through 1185.
                         Other Operating Items
1290                     Other Operating Income/Losses - Class A:
This amount shall contain the
                         net of accounts 7110 through 7160 and
7990.  Class B:  This amount
                         shall contain the net of accounts 7100
and 7990.  A positive value
                         represents income and a negative value
represents loss.
                         Non-operating Items
1320                     Income Effects of Jurisdictional
Ratemaking Differences (Net) - Class A
                         and Class B:  The balance of account
7910.  A positive value represents
                         an increase to net income and a negative
value represents a decrease to
                         net income.
1330                     Extraordinary Items - Class A:  The
total of accounts 7610 through 7640.
                         Class B:  The total of account 7600.
Amounts excluded from ratemaking
                         are removed in row 1370.  A positive
value represents an income credit
                         and a negative value represents an
income charge.
1340                     Allowance for Funds Used During
Construction - Class A:  The balance
                         of account 7340.  Amounts excluded from
ratemaking are removed in
                         row 1370.  Class B:  Not applicable.
1350                     Special Charges - Class A:  The balance
of account 7370.  Amounts
                         excluded from ratemaking are removed in
row 1370.  Class B:  Not
                         applicable.
1360                     All Other Non-Operating Items - Class A:
The total amount of accounts
                         7310 through 7330, 7350 and 7360.  Class
B:  Total of account 7300.
                         Amounts excluded from ratemaking are
removed in row 1370.  A
                         positive value represents income and a
negative value represents a loss.
1370                     FCC Non-Operating Adjustment - This
amount shall contain the net of:
                         (1) non-operating items not included
above which the Commission has
                         expressly allowed for ratemaking
purposes; and (2) non-operating items
                         included above which the Commission has
expressly excluded for
                         ratemaking purposes.  A positive value
represents a net allowance and a
                         negative value represents a net
disallowance.
1390                     Total Non-Operating Items - Class A and
Class B:  The total of rows
                         1350 and 1370 less rows 1320, 1330, 1340
and 1360.
                         Other Taxes
1410                     State and Local Income - Class A:  The
total of accounts 7230 and the
                         appropriate portion of account 7250 for
column(b).  For column (h) enter
                         the amount calculated pursuant to the
reporting carrier's Cost Allocation
                         Manual.  Enter the amount applicable to
SNFAs and intra-company
                         transactions in column (j).  For column
(k) through (m) allocate this
                         amount between the state and intrastate
jurisdictions pursuant to Section
                         36.412.  Class B:  Follow Class A
instructions using relevant portion of
                         account 7200.
1420                     Other State and Local - Class A:  The
total of account 7240 for column
                         (b).  For column (h) enter the amount
calculated pursuant to the reporting
                         carrier's Cost Allocation Manual.  Enter
the amount applicable to SNFAs
                         and intracompany transactions in column
(j).  Calculate this amount for
                         the remaining columns pursuant to
Section 36.412.  Class B:  Follow
                         Class A instructions using relevant
portion of account 7200.
1490                     Total Other Taxes - The total of rows
1410 and 1420.
                         Federal Income Taxes
1590                     Federal Income Taxes - Class A:  For
column (b), enter the total of
                         account 7220 and the appropriate portion
of account 7250 minus the
                         appropriate amount of amortization in
account 7210.  Class B:  Follow
                         Class A instructions using the relevant
portion of account 7200.
                         Plant in service
                         All investment data reported in columns
(k) through (m) must be
                         calculated by one of two methods:  (1)
divide the sum of average
                         monthly investments by the number of
months in the reporting period; (2)
                         divide the sum of the investment balance
for the end of the previous year
                         and the end of the month investment
balance for each month in the
                         current reporting period by the number
of months in the reporting period
                         plus 1.  Investment data reported in
columns (b), (h) and (j) are reported
                         as booked.
1620                     Support Plant - Class A:  The total of
accounts 2111 through 2124.
                         Class B:  The total amount in account
2110.
1630                     Operator Systems Equipment - Class A and
Class B:  The balance of
                         account 2220.
1640                     Central Office Equipment-Switching -
Class A:  The total of accounts
                         2211 through 2215.  Class B:  The total
of account 2210.
1650                     Central Office Equipment-Transmission -
Class A:  The total of accounts
                         2231 and 2232.  Class B:  The total of
account 2230.
1660                     Cable and Wire Facilities-Total - Class
A:  The total of accounts 2411
                         through 2441.  This amount also equals
the total of rows 1661, 1662 and
                         1663.  Class B:  The total of account
2410.
1661                     Cable and Wire Facilities-Metallic Cable
- Class A:  The total of the
                         metallic subsidiary record categories in
accounts 2421, 2422, 2423, 2424,
                         2425 and 2426.  Class B:  Not
applicable.
1662                     Cable and Wire Facilities-Non-Metallic
Cable - Class A:  The total of the
                         non-metallic subsidiary record
categories in accounts 2421, 2422, 2423,
                         2424, 2425 and 2426.  Class B:  Not
applicable.
1663                     Cable and Wire Facilities-Other - Class
A:  The sum of accounts 2411,
                         2431, and 2441.  Class B:  Not
applicable.
1670                     Information Origination/Termination
Equipment - Class A:  The total of
                         accounts 2311 through 2362.  Class B:
The total of account 2310.
1680                     Amortizable Assets - Class A:  The total
of accounts 2681, 2682 and
                         2690.  Class B:  The total of accounts
2680 and 2690.
1690                     Total Plant - Class A and Class B:  The
total of rows 1620, 1630, 1640,
                         1650, 1660, 1670 and 1680.
                         Other Investments
1705                     Other Jurisdictional Assets-Net - Class
and Class B:  The balance of
                         Account 1500.  A positive value
represents an increase to assets and a
                         negative value represents a decrease to
assets.
1710                     Property Held for Future
Telecommunications Use - Class A and Class
                         B:  The total of account 2002.
1720                     Telecommunications Plant Under
Construction - Class A and Class B:
                         The total of account 2003.  Amounts
excluded from ratemaking are
                         removed in row 1780.
1730                     Plant Acquisition Adjustment - Class A
and Class B:  The balance of
                         account 2005.  Amounts excluded from
ratemaking are removed in row
                         1780.
1740                     Investment in Nonaffiliated Companies -
Class A and Class B:  The
                         balance of account 1402.  The amount
directly related to Class B Rural
                         Telephone Back Stock shall be included
in the rate base.  Amounts
                         excluded from ratemaking are removed in
row 1780.
1750                     Other Deferred Charges - Class A and
Class B:  The total of accounts
                         1437, 1438 and 1439.  Amounts excluded
from ratemaking are removed
                         in row 1780.
1760                     Inventories - Class A and Class B:  The
balance of account 1220.
1770                     Cash Working Capital - This amount
equals that portion of investment
                         required to meet current expenses.  The
calculation of this amount shall
                         take into account revenue and expense
items which are received or paid
                         for before the service is rendered and
expense items received or
                         disbursed after the service is rendered.
This amount must be developed
                         pursuant to CC Docket 86-497.
1780                     FCC Investment Adjustment - This amount
shall contain the net of:  (1)
                         investment items not included above
which the Commission has expressly
                         allowed for ratemaking purposes; and (2)
investment items included
                         above which the Commission has expressly
excluded for ratemaking
                         purposes.  A positive value represents a
net asset allowance and a
                         negative value represents a net
disallowance.
1790                     Total Other Investment - Class A and
Class B:  The total of rows 1705
                         through 1780.
                         Reserves
1820                     Accumulated Depreciation -  Class A and
Class B:  The total of accounts
                         3100 and 3200.
1830                     Accumulated Amortization - Class A:  The
total of accounts 3410, 3420,
                         3500 and 3600.  Class B:  The total of
accounts 3400, 3500 and 3600.
1840                     Deferred Federal Income Taxes - Class A
and Class B:  The total of
                         accounts 4100 and 4340.
1850                     Customer Deposits - Class A and Class B:
The balance of account 4040.
                         This amount is separated between state
and interstate by application of
                         the interstate plant factor or special
study.  The interstate plant factor is
                         calculated by dividing interstate
plant-in-service by total plant-in-
                         service.
1870                          Other Deferred Credits - Class A
and Class B:  The balance of account
                              4360.  Amounts excluded from
ratemaking are removed in row 1885.
1880                          Other Jurisdictional Liabilities
and Deferred Credits-Net - Class A and
                              Class B:  The balance of accounts
4310 and 4370.
1885                          FCC Reserve Adjustment - This
amount shall contain the net of:  (1)
                              reserve items not included above
which the Commission has expressly
                              included for ratemaking purposes;
and (2) reserve items included above
                              which the Commission has expressly
excluded for ratemaking purposes.
                              A positive value represents a net
reserve allowance and a negative value
                              represents a net reserve
disallowance.
1890                          Total Reserves - Class A and Class
B:  The total of rows 1820 through
                              1885.

                                CERTIFICATION
I certify that I am an officer of
_____________________________________________________;
that I have examined the foregoing report and that to the best of
my knowledge, information, and belief, all
statements of fact contained in this report are true and that
said report is an accurate statement of the affairs
of the above named respondent in respect to the data set forth
herein for the period from
___________________________ to ____________________________.
PRINTED NAME
POSITION
SIGNATURE
DATE
(Persons making willful false statements in this report form can
be punished by fine or imprisonment under
the Communications Act, 47 U.S.C. 220(e).)
CONTACT PERSON
TELEPHONE NUMBER
FCC Report 43-09B - Automated Report Specifications
Sept. 1995        Page 1 of 16
A.                Introduction
This document contains the detailed automated data processing
(ADP) specifications for the automated report
to be filed as FCC Report 43-09B, the ARMIS Video Dialtone Fourth
Quarter Report.
B.              General Format and Media
                1.       All data must be submitted on 3.5 inch
double-sided high density IBM-
                         PC compatible diskettes.
                2.       All files must be coded in ASCII.
                3.       See sections B and C on pages 1 and 2 of
the accompanying Reporting
                         Procedures for a discussion of the
Confidential Version, the Public
                         Version, and the Unrestricted Version of
this report and for a definition
                         and discussion of data items that are
"Not Available" or are "Withheld."
                4.       The file name for each file has seven
components:
                         a.             the four letter COSA code
(CO = Company, SA
                                        = Study Area, see
attached COSA Code Table for
                                        a list of companies and
their respective COSAs).
                         b.             the last two digits of
the fourth quarter which is
covered by the data.
                         c.             the letter "V".
                         d.             the number 4 to indicate
fourth quarter data.
                         e.             a decimal point.
                         f.             the letter "P", "C", or
"U" to indicate whether this
                                        is the Public version,
the Confidential version, or
                                        the only (Unrestricted)
version since all data is
                                        non-confidential.
                         g.             two digits (zero filled)
for the submission number.
                                        Submission 0 is for test
data purposes only.
                                        Submission 1 is for the
first submission of a
                                        quarter's data.  Higher
numbers (2,3,etc.) would
                                        be used if needed for
successive revisions to
                                        correct that quarter's
submission.
                         For example, the file name for the
Unrestricted Version of the initial
                         quarterly report data file to be
submitted by Illinois Bell to cover the
                         fourth quarter 1995, would be
LBIL95V4.U01:
                         LBIL           COSA for
Illinois Bell
                         95             Data for
calendar year 1995
                         V              Video
Dialtone Report Data File
                         4              Data for
the fourth quarter
                         .              Decimal
point
FCC Report 43-09B - Automated Report Specifications
Sept. 1995          Page 2 of 16
                         U
Unrestricted version
                         01             First
submission of fourth quarter's data
                5.       A separate file must be prepared for
each report.  More than one file can
                         be placed on the same diskette, as long
as they cover the same period,
                         version, and submission number.
C.              Data Entry Conventions
                1.       If an entry is to be a subtraction,
indicate so by placing a minus sign in
                         the column, immediately preceding the
numeric data, e.g., use -4, NOT -
                          4 or (4).
                2.       Begin each data record in column 1 and
make each record the proper
                         length as specified in the accompanying
record layouts. Commas are used
                         as delimiters between fields.  All
numeric fields are right justified and
                         space filled, e.g., use      123, NOT
123    .  All non-numeric fields are
                         enclosed in double quotation marks and
are left justified and space filled
                         within these quotation marks, e.g., use
"John Doe           ".
                3.       Give each record a unique record number,
beginning with 1001 and
                         incrementing by one, with no numbers
skipped.
                4.       Do NOT include "$" or "%" or embedded
commas, decimal points,
                         spaces, quotes or other formatting
characters in any numeric data fields,
                         except for row number and percentage
field, which will include a decimal
                         point but not a percent sign.
                5.       In any numeric data field designated by
N/A, enter -99999.  If a "Public
                         Version" diskette is filed, enter -88888
in any numeric data field for
                         which data are "Withheld".  DO NOT
override N/As.
                         If a reporting carrier wishes to apply
data to a field containing an N/A,
                         the carrier should enter as a footnote
to the field, the amount(s) and an
                         explanation.  The amount(s) must not be
entered in the N/A's field. All
                         other fields must be populated.  If
there are no dollar amounts related to
                         video dialtone operations for an open
field, enter zero.
                         These entries must be formatted
according to the format rules for the
                         particular data field; e.g., in the
percentage fields, -99999 would be
                         entered as -99999.00.
FCC Report 43-09B - Automated Report Specifications
Sept. 1995          Page 3 of 16
D.              Rounding Conventions
                1.       As specified in the accompanying Report
Definition, all monetary figures
                         must be rounded to the nearest thousand
dollars.
                2.       All percentage amounts must be entered
in percent and must be rounded
                         to 2 decimal places.
                         Example:  23.70561 should be entered as
23.71
E.              Footnotes
                1.       If any data for the current period
differs materially from those for the
                         previous period and the difference is
not self-explanatory but was caused
                         by unusual circumstances not explained
in a previous report, then include
                         footnote text to explain the specific
circumstances.
                2.       If the reporting carrier does not follow
the procedures described in the
                         row and column instructions of the
attached Report Definition, it must
                         explain any deviations from those
procedures in an explanatory footnote.
                         Such footnotes must provide detailed
explanations of the procedures
                         actually used by the carrier and its
specific reasons for deviating from
                         procedures prescribed by the
Commission's Rules.  This provision should
                         not be interpreted to mean that
deviations from the prescribed rules will
                         automatically be approved by the
Commission.
                3.       Footnotes must be included in the
footnote text record(s) of the automated
report.
F.              Errata
                1.       Carriers are under a legal obligation to
correct any erroneous data
                         discovered in FCC Report 43-09B.
Submission containing corrected data
                         must include references to indicate
which data  items were corrected
                         since previous submission.
                2.       These references must be included in the
erratum record(s) of the
                         automated report.
FCC Report 43-09B - Automated Report Specifications       Sept.
1995              Page 4 of 16
G.              Data Record Descriptions
The seven data record types are described below.  See pages 6
through 16  and  for record layouts.  The
automated file will consist of the following record Types:
Record Type H1  Header Record           One Type H1 record per
file.                       The
first record of each file.
Contains identifying data.
                         See
page  6 for record layout.
Record Type L1  Label Record            One
Type L1 record per file.                The
second record of each file.
Contains report number, carrier           name,
study area name, etc.
                         See
page  7 for record layout.
Record Type S1  Costs, Revenue and      57 Type S1 records per
file.
Separations Data Record  One record for each of the 57
                         rows
shown on Pages 3-8 & 11-16                        of
the accompanying Report
Definition.
                          Each
record contains data values
reflecting accounting results annualized
                          for the
investment, expense, revenue
                          and
separations related to the provision
                          of
video dialtone service.
                         See
pages 8 & 9 for record layout.
Record Type C1  Confidential            One or
more Type C1 records per
Treatment Record           file.
Contains information to identify
                                          the
data for which the carrier is
seeking confidential treatment or
                                          to
verify that the carrier is not
seeking any confidential treatment.
                                        See
pages  10 & 11 for record layout.
Record Type F1  Footnote Record         One or more Type F1
records    per
file.
Contains explanatory footnote text.     See
pages 12 & 13 for record layout.
FCC Report 43-09B - Automated Report Specifications         Sept.
1995          Page 5 of 16
Record Type E1  Erratum Record          Zero Type E1 records for
the   first
submission of the fouth
quarter's data.
                         One or
more Type E1 records per
                           file in
revisions filed to correct
                           this
quarter's submission.
Contains information to identify
                                          the
data which was corrected in
                                          the
submission.
                         See
pages 14 & 15 for record layout.
Record Type T1  Trailer Record          One Type T1 record per
file.
                         The
last record of each file.
Contains contact person, etc.
                         See
page 16 for record layout.

FCC Report 43-09B - Automated Report Specifications
September 1995          Page 6 of 16
RECORD TYPE H1 - HEADER RECORD
Field     Item               Example      Position    Description
  1   Record Number          1001            1-4      The
sequential number of this record
                                           within this data file
plus 1000.
      Format:  Right justified and space filled.
  2   COSA                   "LBIL"       6-11        The COSA
code for the filing entity.
         (see attached COSA Code Table)
      Format:  Include quotation marks.
  3   Record Type            "H1"         13-16       Always
contains the letter H capitalized
          and the number 1 with no space between       them.
      Format:  Include quotation marks.
  4   File Name             "LBIL95V4.U01"18-31       The name of
the ASCII file.
         Format:  See page 1, paragraph B.4 above.
                                      Include quotation marks.
  5   Year                   1995         33-36       The year
covered by the data.
  6   Quarter #              4            38 The quarter number
covered by the data.
      Always contain the number 4 since this data
       are annualized for the fourth quarter.
      4 for January to December
  7   Data Entry Date        19950315     40-47       The date on
which the data were last
          entered or revised.
      Format:  YYYYMMDD.
  8   Version                "U"          49-51       The version
letter (P, C or U) capitalized
          (for Public, Confidential or Unrestricted)
                                          Format:  Include
quotation marks.
  9   Submission #            1           53-54       0 for test
data purposes only.
      1 or first submission of a quarter's data.
      Higher numbers (2, 3, etc.) would be used
       if needed for successive revisions to
       correct that quarter's submission.
      Format:  Right justified and space filled.
 10   End of Record Code     "XQ"         56-59       Always
contains the letters XQ capitalized
                              with no space between them to
indicate the
          end of the record.
      Format:  Include quotation marks.
Note: All fields are separated by commas.
The ruler lines (123456789 etc.) included below and following
with sample records are included only to
assist the reader.  Do not include ruler lines as records in the
electronic filing.
___________________________________________________________
          1         2         3        4        5              .
. . . . Ruler Line
12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789    .
. . . . Ruler line
Sample record:
1001,"LBIL","H1","LBIL95V4.U01",1995,1,19950315,"U", 1,"XQ"
FCC Report 43-09B - Automated Report Specifications
September 1995               Page 7 of 16
                                        RECORD TYPE L1 - LABEL
RECORD
Field      Item          Example          Position
Description
  1   Record Number      1002              1-4         The
sequential number of this record
                          within this data file plus 1000.
                         Format:  Right justified and space
filled.
  2   COSA               "LBIL"            6-11        The COSA
code for the filing entity.
                         Format:  Include quotation marks.
  3   Record Type        "L1"              13-16       Always
contains the letter L capitalized
                                        and the number 1 with no
space between them.
                         Format:  Include quotation marks.
  4   Report Number     "FCC REPORT 43-09B"         18-36
Always contains "FCC REPORT 43-09B"
                                                    capitalized.
                         Format:  Include quotation marks.
  5   Carrier           "Illinois Bell  "           38-69   Name
of the carrier.
                       (spaces until pos. 69)          Format:
Left justified and space filled.
                                                     Include
quotation marks.
  6   Study Area        "Illinois       "           71-92   Name
of the study area.
                         Format:  Left justified and space
filled.
                                                     Include
quotation marks.
  7   Period Covered  "Jan 1995 to Dec 1995"       94-115
Period covered by the data.
                         Format:  "mmm yyyy to mmm yyyy"
                                                   Include
quotation marks.
  8   End of Record Code "XQ"             117-120      Always
contains the letters XQ
                                           capitalized with no
space   between them to
                          indicate the end of the record.
                         Format:  Include quotation marks.
Note:  All fields are separated by commas.
         1         2         3         4         5         6
  7         8         9
12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345
6789012345678901234567890123
Sample record:
1002,"LBIL","L1","FCC REPORT 43-09B","Illinois Bell
 ","Illinois            ",
      1         1         1
9     0         1         2
456789012345678901234567890
Continuation of sample record:
"Jan 1995 to Dec 1995","XQ"
FCC Report 43-09B - Automated Report Specifications
September 1995               Page  8 of 16
                               RECORD TYPE S1 - COSTS, REVENUE
AND SEPARATIONS DATA RECORD
Field     Item                 Example    Position   Description
  1       Record Number        1009         1-4     The
sequential number of this record
                                                        within
this data file plus 1000.
                                                    Format:
Right justified and space filled.
  2       COSA                 "LBIL"       6-11    The COSA code
for the filing entity.
                                                    Format:
Include quotation marks.
  3       Record Type          "S1"        13-16    Always
contains the letter S capitalized
                                                     and the
number 1 with no space between them.
                                                    Format:
Include quotation marks.
  4       Row Number           1090.0      18-23    Row number as
identified on the accompanying
                                                     Report
Definition.
                                                    Valid ranges:
1010.0 to 1890.0
                                                    Format:
Right justified and space filled,
with one decimal place.
Since all applicable row numbers are
integers, append .0 to each row number.
  5       Column (b) data        62592     25-33    This field
contains the data corresponding
                                                     to column
(b) as shown on Pages 3-8 and 11-16
                                of the accompanying Report
Definition.
                                                     Do NOT
override designated N/As.
                                                    Format:
Right justified and space filled
Enter -99999 in integer rows and
                                -99999.00 in percentage rows
where
                                a field is designated by N/A.
All
other fields must be populated.  If
there are no data applicable to
                                                              an
open field enter zero.
Enter -88888 in integer rows and -88888.00
                           in percentage rows on the
                           "public version" diskette
                                                              to
indicate that confidential
treatment has been requested.
  6       Column (c) data       15432     35-43     Column (c)
data
                                                    Format:  See
Field 5 above.
  7       Column (d) data        1323     45-53     Column (d)
data
                                                    Format:  See
Field 5 above.
  8       Column (e) data        1252     55-63     Column (e)
data
                                                    Format:  See
Field 5 above.
  9       Column (f) data       18663     65-73     Column (f)
data
                                                    Format:  See
Field 5 above.
 10       Column (g) data       29.80     75-83     Column (g)
data
                                                    Format:  See
Field 5 above.
 11       Column (h) data        2367     85-93     Column (h)
data
                                                    Format:  See
Field 5 above.
 12       Column (i) data       16296     95-103    Column (i)
data
                                                    Format:  See
Field 5 above.
 13       Column (j) data        2345    105-113    Column (j)
data
                                                    Format:  See
Field 5 above.
 14       Column (k) data       13951    115-123    Column (k)
data
                                                    Format:  See
Field 5 above.
 15       Column (l) data        4801    125-133    Column (l)
data
                                                    Format:  See
Field 5 above.
 16       Column (m) data        9150    135-143    Column (m)
data
                                                    Format:  See
Field 5 above.
 17       Column (n) data       34.40    145-153    Column (n)
data
                                                    Format:  See
Field 5 above.
 18       Column (o) data       65.58    155-163    Column (o)
data
                                                    Format:  See
Field 5 above.
FCC Report 43-09B - Automated Report Specifications
September 1995                    Page  9 of 16
      RECORD TYPE S1 - COSTS, REVENUE AND SEPARATIONS DATA
RECORD(continued)
Field     Item                  Example   Position  Description
 19       End of Record Code    "XQ"      165-168   Always
contains the letters XQ capitalized
                                                     with no
space between them to indicate the end
                                                     of the
record.
                                                    Format:
Include quotation marks.
Note:  Separate all fields with commas.
   Footnote records are needed if any data for the current period
differ materially  from  those for the
   previous period or the corresponding period of the preceding
year and the    difference is not
   self-explanatory but was caused by unusual circumstances.
Footnote records are also needed if the
   procedures described in the row and column instructions are
not followed.  The  carrier  must include
   footnote text to fully explain the specific circumstances or
any deviations from the procedures. See
   section D of the accompanying Reporting Procedures for a
discussion of footnotes.
   Add one or more Type F1 record(s) after the remaining Type S1
and C1 records.
                                1
         1         2         3         4         5         6
  7         8         9         0
12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345
678901234567890123456789012345678901234
Sample records:
1009,"LBIL","S1",1090.0,    62592,    15432,    13231,     1252,
 18663,    29.80,     2367,    16296,
1036,"LBIL","S1",1661.0,    10864,    13021,     5432,     1432,
  6864,    27.20,   -99999,   -99999,
     1         1         1         1
     1         2         3         4         5         6
5678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678
Continuation of sample records:
    13951,     4801,     4801,     9150,    34.40,    65.58,"XQ"
   -99999,   -99999,   -99999,   -99999,-99999.00,-99999.00,"XQ"
FCC Report 43-09B - Automated Report Specifications
September 1995                     Page 10 of 16
                           RECORD TYPE C1 - CONFIDENTIAL
TREATMENT RECORD
Field     Item                Example  Position    Description
  1   Record Number      1060          1-4         The sequential
number of this record
      (for this record)                                within
this data file plus 1000.
                                                   Format:  Right
justified and space filled.
  2   COSA               "LBIL"        6-11        The COSA code
for the filing entity.
                                                        Format:
Include quotation marks.
  3   Record Type        "C1"         13-16        Always
contains the letter C capitalized
                                                         and the
number 1 with no space between them.
                                                        Format:
Include quotation marks.
  4   Record Number      1009          18-21       This field
contains the record number
      (for the confidential                             of the
record which contains the
        data)             data for which the carrier is seeking
                          confidential treatment.  If the request
                          is for the entire column(s) or the
entire
                          submission, use 9999.  If no
confidential
                          treatment is being requested, then use
0.
                                                        Format:
Right justified and space filled.
  5   Table Number          "I   "     23-28       This field
contains the table number (Roman
                           numerals)of the table in which the
                                                          the
confidential data appear.
                                                        If the
request is for the entire submission,
                                                         enter
"ZZZZ".  If no confidential treatment
                                                         is being
requested then enter "    ".
                                                        Format:
Include quotation marks.
Left justified and space filled.
  6   Row Number            1090.0     30-35       This field
contains the row number of the
                                                         row
which contains the confidential data
                                                         as
identified in the accompanying Report
Definition.  If the request is for the
                                                         entire
column(s), an entire table or the
                                                         entire
submission, enter 9999.0. If no
confidential treatment is being requested
                                                         then use
0.0.
                                                        Format:
Right justified and space filled,
with one decimal place.
  7   Column Label          "C "         37-40     This field
contains the column letter of the
confidential data as identified in the
accompanying Report Definition.  If the request is
                                                         for an
entire row, an entire table, or the entire
submission, enter "ZZ".  If the request is for more
                                                         than one
column but less than the entire row, then
                                                         populate
this field and as many as needed of fields
                                                         8 thru
26.  If no confidential treatment is requested,
                                                         then
enter "  " in all of fields 7 thru 26.
                                                        Format:
Include quotation marks.
Left justified and space filled.
  8       Second Column Label  "C "          42-45 .....
  9       Third Column Label   "D "          47-50     .
Fields 8 thru 26 are similar
  .                                                          .
 to Field 7 and are used
  .                                                           .
 when the request is for
  .                                                          .
 the same row and more than
  .                                                         .
 one column.
 26       Twentieth Col. Label "  "         132-135    .....
Otherwise, enter "  ".
FCC Report 43-09B - Automated Report Specifications
September 1995             Page 11 of 16
                          RECORD TYPE C1 - CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT
RECORD (continued)
Field     Item                 Example Position    Description
  27       End of Record Code   "XQ"         137-140   Always
contains the letters XQ capitalized
                                                        with no
space between them to indicate
                                                        the end
of the record.
                                                       Format:
Include quotation marks.
Note:  All fields are separated by commas.
         1         2         3         4         5         6
  7         8         9
12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345
6789012345678901234567890123456
Sample records:
1060,"LBIL","C1",1009,"I   ",1090.0,"B ","C ","  ","  ","  ","
","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ",
1061,"LBIL","C1",9999,"I   ",9999.0,"B ","  ","  ","  ","  ","
","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ",
1062,"LBIL","C1",1036,"I   ",1661.0,"ZZ","  ","  ","  ","  ","
","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ",
                                          - OR -
1060,"LBIL","C1",   0,"    ",   0.0,"  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","
","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ",
                                          __
   1         1         1         1         1
9  0         1         2         3         4
78901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
Continuation of sample records:
"  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","XQ"
"  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","XQ"
"  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","XQ"
             - OR -
"  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","XQ"
FCC Report 43-09B - Automated Report Specifications
September 1995                 Page 12 of 16
                                  RECORD TYPE F1 - FOOTNOTE TEXT
RECORD
Field     Item                Example  Position    Description
  1   Record Number      1063           1-4        The sequential
number of this record
   (for this record)                                within this
data file plus 1000.
                                                        Format:
Right justified and space filled.
  2   COSA               "LBIL"        6-11        The COSA code
for the filing entity.
                                                        Format:
Include quotation marks.
  3   Record Type        "F1"          13-16      Always contains
the letter F capitalized
                                                        and the
number 1 with no space between them.
                                                       Format:
Include quotation marks.
  4   Record Number      1003          18-21       This field
contains the record number of
   (for the footnoted                               the record
which contains the footnoted
        data)                                            data.
If the footnote pertains to the
                                                         entire
column(s), an entire table, or the
                                                         entire
submission, use 9999.
                                                        Format:
Right justified and space filled.
  5   Table Number       "I   "        23-28       This field
contains the table number (Roman
numerals) of the table in which the
footnoted data appear.  If the footnote
                                                         pertains
to an entire table or the entire
submission, use "ZZZZ".
                                                        Format:
Include quotation marks.
Left justified and space filled.
  6   Row Number         1090.0       30-35        This field
contains the row number of the
                                                         row
which contains the footnoted data as
identified in the accompanying Report
Definition.  If the footnote pertains
                                                         to the
entire column(s), an entire table,
                                                         or the
entire submission, enter 9999.0.
                                                        Format:
Right justified and space filled,
with one decimal place.
   7  Column Label       "ZZ"        37-40         This field
contains the column letter(s) of the
footnoted data as identified in the accompanying
                                                         Report
Definition.  If the footnote pertains
                                                         to an
entire row, an entire table, or the
                                                         entire
submission, enter "ZZ".
                                                        Format:
Include quotation marks.
Left justified and space filled.
  8   Footnote Number       1              42-44   The number of
this particular footnote.
                                                        Valid
range:  1 to 999.
                                                        Format:
Right justified and space filled.
  9   Sequence Number       1              46-47   The sequence
number of the record
                                                         within
the footnote.  In other words,
                                                         the
order of the specific record in the
                                                         sequence
of records which, when combined,
                                                         will
provide the entire footnote.
                                                        Valid
range:  1 to 99.
                                                        Format:
Right justified and space filled.
 10   Footnote Text  "Footnote text   "  49-105    The text of
the footnote or of the
                    (Spaces until pos. 105)
continuation line.  Footnote text must be
explained fully.
                                                        Format:
Include quotation marks at the
beginning and end of this field
and left justify within these
quotation marks.
FCC Report 43-09B - Automated Report Specifications
September 1995                   Page 13 of 16
                         RECORD TYPE F1 - FOOTNOTE TEXT RECORD
(continued)
Field     Item           Example       Position    Description
11 End of Record Code   "XQ"           107-110     Always
contains the letters XQ capitalized
                                                         with no
space between them to
                                                         indicate
the end of the record.
                                                        Format:
Include quotation marks.
Note:  All fields are separated by commas.
Footnote records are needed if any data for the current period
differ materially  from  those for
the previous period or the corresponding period of the preceding
year and the   difference is not
self-explanatory but was caused by unusual circumstances.
Footnote records are also needed if the
procedures described in the row and column instructions are not
followed.  The  carrier  must include
footnote text to fully explain the specific circumstances or any
deviations from the procedures.
See section D of the accompanying Reporting Procedures for a
discussion of footnotes.
                                1         1
         1         2         3         4         5         6
  7         8         9         0         1
12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345
678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890
Sample records:
1063,"LBIL","F1",1009,"I   ",1090.0,"ZZ",  1, 1,"Footnote text
for footnote 1                           ","XQ"
1064,"LBIL","F1",1009,"I   ",1090.0,"ZZ",  1, 2,"continuation
text for footnote 1                       ","XQ"
1065,"LBIL","F1",1009,"I   ",1090.0,"ZZ",  1, 3,"last line of
footnote 1                                ","XQ"
1066,"LBIL","F1",1036,"I   ",1661.0,"B ",  2, 1,"Footnote 2
pertains to column B of Table I row 1661.0  ","XQ"
1067,"LBIL","F1",9999,"I   ",9999.0,"C ",  3, 1,"Footnote 3
pertains to all rows of Table I column C    ","XQ"
FCC Report 43-09B - Automated Report Specifications
September 1995                     Page 14 of 16
                                  RECORD TYPE E1 - ERRATUM RECORD
Field     Item           Example       Position    Description
  1   Record Number      1068           1-4        The sequential
number of this record
       (for this record)                                 within
this data file plus 1000.
                                                        Format:
Right justified and space filled.
  2   COSA               "LBIL"         6-11       The COSA code
for the filing entity.
                                                        Format:
Include quotation marks.
  3   Record Type        "E1"          13-16       Always
contains the letter E capitalized
                                                         and the
number 1 with no space between them.
                         Format:  Include quotation marks.
  4   Record Number      1009          18-21       This field
contains the record number
      (for the corrected                               of the
record which contains the
     data)                                          data which
were corrected in this
submission.  If the entire column(s), an
                                                         entire
table, or the entire submission
                                                         was
corrected, use 9999.
                                                        Format:
Right justified and space filled.
  5   Table Number       "I   "        23-28       This field
contains the table number (Roman
numerals) of the table in which the corrected
                                                         data
appear.  If an entire table or
submission was corrected, use "ZZZZ".
                                                        Format:
Include quotation marks.
Left justified and space filled.
  6   Row Number            1090.0         30-35   This field
contains the row number of the
                                                         of the
row which contains the corrected
                                                         data as
identified in the accompanying
                                                         Report
Definition.  If the entire
column(s), an entire table, or the entire
submission was corrected, enter 9999.0.
                                                        Format:
Right justified and space filled,
with one decimal place.
  7   Column Label       "ZZ"           37-40      This field
contains the column letter of
                                                         the
corrected data as identified in the
accompanying Report Definition.
                                                         If an
entire row, an entire table, or
                                                         the
entire submission was corrected,
                                                         enter
"ZZ".  If more than one column
                                                         but less
than the entire row was
corrected, then populate this field
                                                         and as
many as needed of fields 8 thru 26.
                                                        Format:
Include quotation marks.
Left justified and space filled.
  8     Second Column Label            "B "            42-45
.....
  9     Third Column Label             "C "            47-50
   .       Fields 8 thru 26 are similar
  .                                                            .
   to Field 7 and are used
  .                                                             .
   when the correction is in
  .                                                            .
   the same row and more than
  .                                                           .
   one column.
 26     Twentieth Col. Label           "  "           132-135
.....        Otherwise, enter "  ".
 27     Footnote Number  1              137-139    This field
contains the footnote number
                                                         that
explains the correction.  If there
                                                         is no
footnote, use a zero.
                                                        Format:
Right justified and space filled.
FCC Report 43-09B - Automated Report Specifications
September 1995                    Page  15 of 16
                                  RECORD TYPE E1 - ERRATUM RECORD
(continued)
Field     Item           Example       Position    Description
 28   End of Record Code "XQ"          141-144     Always
contains the letters XQ capitalized
                                                         with no
space between them to indicate
                                                         the end
of the record.
                                                        Format:
Include quotation marks.
Note:  All fields are separated by commas.
         1         2         3         4         5         6
  7         8         9
12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345
6789012345678901234567890123456
Sample records:
1068,"LBIL","E1",1009,"I   ",1090.0,"ZZ","  ","  ","  ","  ","
","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ",
1069,"LBIL","E1",1036,"I   ",1661.0,"B ","C ","  ","  ","  ","
","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ",
1070,"LBIL","E1",9999,"I   ",9999.0,"C ","  ","  ","  ","  ","
","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ",
 1         1         1         1         1
90         1         2         3         4
789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234
Continuation of sample records:
"  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ",  1,"XQ"
"  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ",  2,"XQ"
"  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ","  ",  3,"XQ"
FCC Report 43-09B - Automated Report Specifications
September 1995                    Page 16 of 16
                                   RECORD TYPE T1 - TRAILER
RECORD
Field       Item         Example       Position    Description
  1   Record Number      1071          1-4         The sequential
number of this record
                                                         within
this data file plus 1000.
                                                        Format:
Right justified and space filled.
  2   COSA               "LBIL"          6-11      The COSA code
for the filing entity.
                                                        Format:
Include quotation marks.
  3   Record Type        "T1"           13-16      Always
contains the letter T capitalized
                                                         and the
number 1 with no space between them.
                                                        Format:
Include quotation marks.
  4   Contact Person      "John Doe   "     18-59  The name of
the person to contact
                        (spaces until pos. 59)          if there
are questions about the report.
                                                        Format:
Include quotation marks.
  5   Telephone #    "(202) 555-1212 x123 "  61-82 The Contact
Person's telephone number.
                                                        Format:
Include quotation marks.
  6     End of Record Code             "XQ"           84-87
Always contains the letters XQ
capitalized with no space between them
                                                         to
indicate the end of the record.
                                                        Format:
Include quotation marks.
Note:  All fields are separated by commas.
         1         2         3         4         5         6
  7         8
12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345
6789012345678901234567
Sample record:
1071,"LBIL","T1","John Doe
","(202) 555-1212 x123 ","XQ"
FCC Report 43-09B - Paper Report Specifications           Sept.
1995               Page 1 of 8
A. Introduction
This document contains the page layout and detailed
specifications for the paper report to be
filed as FCC Report 43-09B, the ARMIS Video Dialtone Fourth
Quarter Report.
B.  General Instructions
  1.             See sections B and C on pages 1 and 2 of the
accompanying Reporting Procedures
                 for a discussion of the Confidential Version,
the Public Version, and the
                 Unrestricted Version of this report and for a
definition and discussion of data items
                 that are "Not Available" or are "Withheld."
  2.             The ruler lines included on the page layouts
with the column titles are included
                 only to assist the reader.  Do not include ruler
lines as lines in the report.
  3.             The paper report must be printed on 8 1/2 inch
by 11 inch paper.  For ease of
                 preparation, an original may be produced on
larger paper and reduced to this size
                 for submission.  Copies filed must be legible
and permanent, in black ink.  The
                 report may be printed in portrait mode (8 1/2
inches across the top of the page) or
                 landscape mode (11 inches across the top of the
page).  In portrait mode, the
                 printing should not be smaller than 17
characters per inch and 8 lines per inch; in
                 landscape mode, the printing should not be
smaller than 15 characters per inch and
                 10 lines per inch.
C.   Data Entry Conventions
  1.             If an entry is to be a subtraction, indicate so
by placing a minus sign   in the
                 column immediately preceding the numeric data,
e.g., use -4 or (4), NOT - 4.
  2.             Items that need not be reported because they do
not apply are designated by N/A.
                 If a "Public Version" report is filed, enter W/H
in any numeric data field for
                 which data are "Withheld". DO NOT override N/As.
If a reporting carrier wishes
                 to apply data to a field containing an N/A, the
carrier must enter, as a footnote to
                 the field, the amount(s) and an explanation.
All other fields must be populated.  If
                 there are no data applicable to an open field
enter zero.
  3.             Unless otherwise indicated, line items must
reflect the results of video dialtone
                 operations as of the end of the reporting
period.
FCC Report 43-09B - Paper Report Specifications            Sept.
1995              Page 2 of 8
D.  Rounding Conventions
  1.             As specified in the accompanying Report
Definition, all dollar amounts must be
                 rounded to the nearest thousand dollars.
  2.             All percentage amounts must be entered in
percent and must be rounded to two
                 places.
                    Example:  23.70561 should be entered as 23.71
E.   Footnotes
  1.             If any data for the current period differs
materially from those for the previous
                 period and the difference is not
self-explanatory but was caused by unusual
                 circumstances not explained in a previous
report, then include footnote text to
                 explain the specific circumstances.
  2.             If the reporting carrier does not follow the
procedures described in the row and
                 column instructions of the attached Report
Definition, it must explain any
                 deviations from those procedures in an
explanatoy footnote.  Such footnotes must
                 provide detailed explanations of the procedures
actually used by the carrier and its
                 specific reasons for deviating from procedures
prescribed by the Commission's
                 Rules. This provision should not be interpreted
to mean that deviations from the
                 prescribed rules will automatically be approved
by the Commission.
  3.             Footnotes must be included in the footnote
table(s) of the paper report, not on
                 individual table pages.
F.  Errata
  1.             Carriers are under a legal obligation to correct
any erroneous data discovered in
                 FCC Report 43-09B. Submission containing
corrected data must include references
                 to indicate which data items were corrected
since previous submission.
  2.             These references must be included in the erratum
table(s) of the paper report.
E.  Page Layouts
  1.             The page layout for this report is illustrated
in the Forms Section of the
                 accompanying Report Definition.
FCC Report 43-09B - Paper Report Specifications         Sept.
1995                 Page 3 of 8
  2.             The following note must appear at the bottom of
all pages, where applicable.  THE
                 COMPANY HAS REQUESTED CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT FOR
SOME
                 DATA ON THIS PAGE.  SEE THE CONFIDENTIAL
TREATMENT TABLE
                 FOR SPECIFIC INFORMATION.
     4.   The Paper Report will consist of the following pages in
order:
                                                    Illustrated
in
                                             Paper Report Specs.
                                                  on Page
     The Cover Page                               4
                                                    Illustrated
in
                                             Report Definition
Forms
                                                         on Page
     Table 1 - Video Dialtone Costs, Revenue      3 through 8
                               and Separations Data
                                                  Illustrated in
                                               Paper Report
Specs.
                                                  on Page
     The Confidential Treatment Table
     (at least one page and as many pages as needed)   5
     The Footnote Table
     (at least one page and as many pages as needed)   6
     The Erratum Table
     (for submission number 2 or higher,
      as many as needed)                          7
     The Certification Page                       8
       
FCC Report 43-09B - Paper Report Specifications
Sept. 1995           Page 4 of 8
FCC Report 43-09B     Approved by OMB
September 1995        3060-0680
       Expires 12/31/96
       Estimated Avg. Burden Per Response: 45-55 Hrs.
FEDERAL COMMUNICATION COMMISSION
WASH                       INGTON, D.C. 20554
ARMI                     S VIDEO DIALTONE FOURTH
QUAR                           TER REPORT
                                  For               the Year
Ended December 31, 19
Name of Company:
Address of Company:
FCC Report 43-09B is prescribed for every local exchanage carrier
that has obtained Section 214
Authorization(s) from the Commission to provide video dialtone
trials or commercial services. The
Video Dialtone Fourth Quarter Report collects highly aggregated
financial data reflecting accounting
results for the investment, expense, revenue and separations
related to the provision of video
dialtone service as required by the Video Dialtone
Reconsideration Order and in accordance with Parts
32, 36 and Responsible Accounting Officer Letter 25 ("RAO Letter
25").  FCC Report 43-09B specifies
information requirements in a consistent format and is essential
to the FCC to monitor video dialtone
deployment and its effect on subscribers to basic local telephone
service.  Carriers must file this
annual report after receiving Section 214 authorization to
provide video dialtone service.
Public reporting burden for this collection of information is
estimated to average 45-55 hours per
response, including the time for reviewing instructions,
searching existing data sources, gathering
and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the
collection of information.  Send
comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of
this collection of information,
including suggestions for reducing the burden, to the Federal
Communications Commission, Records
Management Branch, Washington, D.C. 20554.

  FCC Report 43-09B -    Paper Report Specifications
Sept. 1995            Page 5
of 8
FCC REPORT 43-09B     Approved by OMB
ARMIS VDT FOURTH QUARTER REPORT        3060-0680
                                                        Expires
12/31/95
COMPANY:     xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx   xxxxxxxxxxxx
VERSION
STUDY AREA:  xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx       SUBMISSION x
PERIOD:      From mmm yyyy to mmm yyyy  CONF. TREATMENT TABLE
COSA:        xxxx      PAGE 1 OF x
     CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT TABLE
Table      Row         Column(s)
-----------
-----------------------------------------------------------
 (a)              (b)  (c)
xxxx 1234.1      xx,xx,xx,xx, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x,
x,... Ruler Line
sample entries:
  I  1090.0      B ,C ,
  I  ALL         B
  I  1661.0      ALL
THE COMPANY HAS REQUESTED CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT FOR THE
ABOVE DATA IN THIS REPORT.
                              -OR-
THE COMPANY HAS NOT REQUESTED CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT FOR ANY
DATA IN THIS REPORT.
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1995             Page 6 of  8
FCC REPORT 43-09B     Approved by OMB
ARMIS VDT FOURTH QUARTER REPORT        3060-0680
                                                        Expires
12/31/96
COMPANY:     xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  xxxxxxxxxxxx VERSION
STUDY AREA:  xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx      SUBMISSION x
PERIOD:      From mmm yyyy to mmm yyyy FOOTNOTE TABLE
COSA:        xxxx     PAGE 1 OF x
     FOOTNOTE TABLE
Table      Row   Col  FN#   Footnote
---- ------      ---   --
-------------------------------------------------------
 (a)       (b)    (c) (d)   (e)
xxxx 1234.1  xxx 12   xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
... Ruler Line
sample entries:
  I  1090.0 ALL  1    Footnote text for footnote 1
                      continuation text for footnote 1
                      last line of footnote 1
  I  1661.0  B   2    Footnote 2 pertains to column B of Table I
row 1661.0
  I  ALL   C     3    Footnote 3 pertains to all rows of Table I
column C
                                              -OR-
                    THERE ARE NO FOOTNOTES FOR THIS SUBMISSION.
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1995              Page 7 of  8
FCC REPORT 43-09B     Approved by OMB
ARMIS VDT FOURTH QUARTER REPORT        3060-0680
                                                        Expires
12/31/96
COMPANY:     xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  xxxxxxxxxxxx VERSION
STUDY AREA:  xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx      SUBMISSION x
PERIOD:      From mmm yyyy to mmm yyyy ERRATUM TABLE
COSA:        xxxx     PAGE 1 OF x
                                    ERRATUM TABLE
TableRow    Column(s) FN#
---- ------       -----------------------------------------------
      ---
 (a) (b)   (c)        (d)
xxxx 1234.1  xx,xx,xx,xx, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, x, 12
... Ruler Line
sample entries:
  I  1090.0  ALL      1
  I  1661.0  B        2
  I  ALL   C          3
THE ABOVE DATA HAVE BEEN CORRECTED IN THIS SUBMISSION.
SEE THE FOOTNOTE TABLE FOR FOOTNOTES WHERE APPLICABLE.
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Company and Study Area Code (COSA) Table
September 1995                               Page 1  of 6
                            DIVESTED BOC INDEX
                             Combined         Combined
                             Operating        Study    COSA
   Holding CompanyCompanies   Operating Company        Areas
             Study Area               Code
   Ameritech      AMTR
                                              1.  Illinois Bell
                                      - Illinois          LBIL
                                              2.  Indiana Bell
                                      - Indiana      NBIN
                                              3.  Michigan Bell
                                      - Michigan          MBMI
                                              4.  Ohio Bell
                                      - Ohio         OBOH
                                              5.  Wisconsin Bell
                                      - Wisconsin         WTWI
   Bell Atlantic Network Serv. Corp.          BATR
                  1.  the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone
Companies            CPTC
                                              1.  C&P (D.C.)
                                      - Dist. of Columbia CDDC
                                     2.  C&P of Maryland
                                      - Maryland     CMMD
                                              3.  C&P of Virginia
                                      - Virginia     CVVA
                                              4.  C&P of West
Virginia          - West Virginia          CWWV
                  2.  Bell of PA and Diamond State     PDTC
                                              5.  Diamond State
Telephone       - Delaware               DSDE
                                              6.  Bell of
Pennsylvania          - Pennsylvania           PAPA
                                              7.  New Jersey Bell
             - New Jersey             NJNJ
   BellSouth Telecommunications, Inc.
                                                BSTR
                                      - Florida
SBFL
                                      - Georgia
SBGA
                                      - North Carolina
SBNC
                                      - South Carolina
SBSC
                                      - Alabama
SCAL
                                      - Kentucky
SCKY
                                      - Louisiana
SCLA
                                      - Mississippi
SCMS
                                      - Tennessee
SCTN
   NYNEX
                                                NXTR
                                              1.  New England
Telephone                                            NETC
                                      - Maine
NEME
                                      - Massachusetts
NEMA
                                      - New Hampshire
NENH
                                      - Rhode Island
NERI
                                      - Vermont
 NEVT
                                              2.  New York
Telephone            - New York                         NYNY
   Pacific Telesis
                                                PTTR
                                              1.  Pacific Bell
             - California             PTCA
                                              2.  Nevada Bell
             - Nevada                 PTNV
 
 Company and Study Area (COSA) List
September 1995                                Page 2  of 6
                            DIVESTED BOC INDEX
                             Combined         Combined
                             Operating        Study    COSA
   Holding CompanyCompanies   Operating Company        Areas
             Study Area               Code
   Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.
                                      SWTR
                                                       - Arkansas
             SWAR
                                      - Kansas
SWKS
                                      - Missouri
SWMO
                                      - Oklahoma
 SWOK
                                      - Texas
SWTX
                                                       all except
Kansas
SWAG
   U.S. West Communications, Inc.
USTR
                                      - Arizona
MSAZ
                                      - Colorado
MSCO
                                      - Idaho
MSID
                                      - Montana
MSMT
                                      - New Mexico
MSNM
                                      - Utah
MSUT
                                      - Wyoming
MSWY
                                      - Iowa
NWIA
                                      - Minnesota
NWMN
                                      - Nebraska
NWNE
                                      - North Dakota
NWND
                                      - South Dakota
NWSD
                                      - Idaho
PNID
                                      - Oregon
PNOR
                                      - Washington
PNWA
 Total Divested Bell Operating Companies
TBOC
Company and Study Area (COSA) List
September 1995                              Page 3 of 6
                         INDEPENDENT COMPANY INDEX
                             Combined         Combined
                             Operating        Study    COSA
   Holding CompanyCompanies   Operating Company        Areas
             Study Area               Code
   Alascom, Inc.
                                      - Alaska
AKAK
   Cincinnati Bell Telephone                  - Ohio & Kentucky
                                      CBTC
   Citizens Telecom                           CTTC
                  1. Citizens Utilities
             - California             CUCA
                  2. Citizens Telcom of New York       - New York
             CTNY
                  - Upstate  CTUP
                  - Red Hook CTRH
                  - Western Counties          CTWC
                  3. Citizens Telcom of West Virg.     -
Contel/West Virginia   CTCW
                  4. Citizens Telcom of West Virg.     - GTE/West
Virginia      CTGW
                  5. Citizens Telcom of Tennessee      -
Tennessee              CTTN
                  6. Citizens Telcom of Arizona        - Arizona
             CTAZ
                  7. Citizens Telcom of Arizona        -
Contel/Arizona         CTCZ
   Commonwealth Telephone Co.
                                      - Pennsylvania
CWTC
   GTE Service Operations
GTTC
                                              1.  GTE California
Inc.           - California             GTCA
                                              2.  GTE Florida
Inc.              - Florida                GTFL
                                              3.  GTE Northwest
Inc.                                     GTNW
                                      - Idaho
GTID
                                      - Montana
GTMT
                                      - Oregon
GTOR
                                      - Washington
GTWA
                                      - West Coast CA
GNCA
                             - Contel/Oregon
             COOR
                                      - Contel/Washington
 COWA
                                              4.  GTE South Inc.
GTSO
                                      - Alabama
GTAL
                                      - Georgia
GTGA
                                      - Kentucky
GTKY
                                      - North Carolina
GTNC
                                                       - South
Carolina         GTSC
                                                               -
Virginia               GTVA
                  - Illinois GLIL
                  5.  GTE Southwest Inc.
                                      GTSW
                                      - Arkansas
GTAR
                                      - New Mexico
GTNM
                                      - Oklahoma
GTOK
                                      - Texas
GTTX
Company and Study Area (COSA) List
September 1995                              Page 4 of 6
                         INDEPENDENT COMPANY INDEX
                             Combined         Combined
                             Operating        Study    COSA
   Holding CompanyCompanies   Operating Company        Areas
             Study Area               Code
   GTE Service Corporation   6.  GTE North Inc.
                                      GTMW
                                      - Illinois
GTIL
                                      - Indiana
GTIN
                                      - Michigan
GTMI
                                      - Ohio
GTOH
                             - Pennsylvania            GTPA
                                      - Wisconsin
GTWI
                                      - General Offices
GTGO
                                      - Contel/Illinois
 COIL
                                      - Contel/Indiana
 COIN
                  - Contel of Pennsylvania    COPT
                                      - Pennsylvania
COPA
                                      - Quaker State
COQS
                  7.  GTE Midwest Inc.        GTMD
                  - Iowa                      GTIA
                  - Minnesota                 GTMN
                                      - Missouri
GTMO
                                      - Nebraska
GTNE
                                                       - Contel
of Iowa Comp.                            COIT
                                      - Contel/Iowa
 COIA
                                      - Contel/Systems of Iowa
 COSI
                                                       - Contel
of Missouri Comp.                        COMT
                                      - Contel/Missouri
 COMO
                                      - Contel/Systems of
Missouri       COCM
                                      - Contel/Eastern Missouri
 COEM
                  8.  GTE Hawaiian Tel. Co. Inc.       - Hawaii
             GTHI
                                              9.  GTE Alaska
             - Alaska                 GTAK
                  1.  Continental Telephone Company    COTC
                  1.  Contel of Texas         COTX
                  2.  Contel of Virginia      COVA
                  3.  Contel of California             COCT
                                      - Contel Cal/California
      COCA
             - Contel Cal/Nevada
CONV
                  4.  Contel of the South     COSO
                  - Contel So/Alabama         COAL
                  - Indiana  GLIN
                  - Michigan GLMI
                  - Contel/Kentucky           COKY
                  - Contel/Minnesota          COMN
                  - Contel/North Carolina     CONC
                  - Contel/South Carolina     COSC
Company and Study Area (COSA) List
September 1995                                 Page 5 of 6
                         INDEPENDENT COMPANY INDEX
                             Combined         Combined
                             Operating        Study    COSA
   Holding CompanyCompanies   Operating Company        Areas
             Study Area               Code
                  - Contel of Arkansas Total  COAT
                  - Contel of Arkansas        COAR
                  - Systems of Arkansas       COSA
   Lincoln Telephone Company                  - Nebraska
             LTNE
   Puerto Rico Telephone Company
                                      - Puerto Rico
PRPR
   Rochester Telephone Operating Companines
                                      RTTC
                                              1.  Rochester
Telephone           - New York               RTNY
                                              2.  Ausable Valley
Telephone      - New York               RTAV
                                              3.  Breezewood
Telephone          - Pennsylvania           RTBT
                                              4.  CC&S Telco
             - Michigan               RTCM
                                      - Ohio
RTCO
                                              5.  Canton
Telephone              - Pennsylvania           RTCT
                                              6.  Enterprise
Telephone          - Pennsylvania           RTET
                                              7.  Highland
Telephone            - New York               RTHT
                                              8.  Inland
Telephone              - Illinois               RTIT
                                              9.  Lakeshore
Telephone           - Wisconsin              RTLW
                                              10.  Lakeside
Telephone           - Illinois               RTLI
                                              11.  Lakewood
Telephone           - Pennsylvania           RTLP
                                              12.  Monroeville
Telephone        - Alabama                RTMA
                                              13.  Mt. Pulaski
Telephone        - Illinois               RTMP
                                              14.  Midland
Telephone            - Illinois               RTMT
                                              15.  Midway
Telephone             - Michigan               RTMM
                                              16.  Mondovi
Telephone            - Wisconsin              RTMW
                                              17.  Ontonogan
Telephone          - Michigan               RTOT
                                              18.  Oswayo River
Telephone       - Pennsylvania           RTOS
                                              19.  Prairie
Telephone            - Illinois               RTPT
                                              20.  S & A
Telephone              - Kansas                 RTKS
                                              21.  Senca Gorham
Telephone       - New York               RTSG
                                              22.  Sylvan Lake
Telephone        - New York               RTSL
                                                       23.
Southland Telephone                          - Alabama
   RTSA
                                      - Florida
RTSF
                                              24.  Schuyler
Telephone           - Iowa                   RTSO
                                      - Illinois
RTSI
                                              25.  Thorntown
Telephone          - Indiana                RTTT
                                              26.  Urban
Telephone              - Wisconsin              RTUW
   Southern New England Telephone
                                      - Connecticut
SNCT
Company and Study Area (COSA) List
September 1995                                   Page 6 of 6
                         INDEPENDENT COMPANY INDEX
                             Combined         Combined
                             Operating        Study    COSA
   Holding CompanyCompanies   Operating Company        Areas
             Study Area               Code
   SPRINT/Centel Telephone Company
                                           CETC
                                              1.  Central of
Florida            - Florida                CEFL
                                              2.  Central of
Illinois           - Illinois               CEIL
                                              3.  Central of
Virginia           - Virginia               CEVA
                                              4.  Central
Telephone Company                              CETO
                                      - North Carolina
CENC
                                      - Nevada
CENV
                                              5.  Central of
Texas              - Texas                  CETX
   SPRINT/United Telephone  Company
                                      UTTC
                                              1.   United Tel.
Co. of Florida   - Florida                UTFL
                                              2.   United Tel.
Co. of Indiana   - Indiana                UTIN
                                              3.   United Tel.
Co. of Kansas    - Kansas                 UTKS
                                              4.   United Tel.
Co. of Minn.     - Minnesota              UTMN
                                              5.   United Tel.
Co. of Missouri  - Missouri               UTMO
                                              6.   United Tel.
Co. of Neb.      - Nebraska               UTNE
                                              7.   United Tel.
Co. of N. Jer.   - New Jersey             UTNJ
                                              8.   Carolina Tel.
and Tel. Co.   - North Carolina         UTNC
                             9.   United Tel. Co. of Ohio
             - Ohio                   UTOH
                  10. United of the Northwest UTNW
             - Oregon                 UTOR
                  - Washington                UTWA
                  11.  United Tel. Co. of Penn.        -
Pennsylvania           UTPA
                                              12.  United Tel.
Co. of S. C.     - South Carolina         UTSC
                                              13.  United Tel.
Co. of Texas     - Texas                  UTTX
                                              14.  United Tel.
Co. of Wyoming   - Wyoming                UTWY
                                              15.  United of the
Southeast Inc                           UTIM
                                      - Tennessee
UTTN
                                      - Virginia
UTVA
    Altel Telephone Company Total             ALTC
                  1.  Altel of Pennsylvania   - Pennsylvania
             ALPA
                  2.  Georgia Communication Corp       - Georgia
             ALGC
    AT&T Communications
                                           ATTC
    Vista Telephone Companies
                                           VITC
    Western Reserve Telephone                 WRTC
    Total Independent Companies
                                           TICO
    Total Industry
                                           TOTL