[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 11 (Wednesday, January 18, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3641-3642]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-1159]



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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


Public Information Collection Requirement Submitted to Office of 
Management and Budget for Review

January 6, 1995.
    The Federal Communications Commission has submitted the following 
information collection requirement to OMB for review and clearance 
under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 (44 U.S.C. 3507).
    Copies of this submission may be purchased from the Commission's 
copy contractor, International Transcription Service, Inc., 2100 M 
Street, NW., Suite 140, Washington, DC 20037, (202) 857-3800. For 
further information on this submission contact Judy Boley, Federal 
Communications Commission, (202) 418-0214. Persons wishing to comment 
on this information collection should contact Timothy Fain, Office of 
Management and Budget, Room 10214 NEOB, Washington, DC 20503, (202) 
395-3561.

OMB Number: 3060-0149.
    Title: Part 63--Sec. 214 Application and Supplemental Information 
Requirements (Sec. 63.01 - 63.601).
    Action: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Businesses or other for-profit.
    Frequency of Response: Quarterly, and on occasion reporting 
requirements.
    Estimated Annual Burden: 510 responses, 13.3 hours average burden 
per response, 6,820 hours total annual burden.
    Needs and Uses: The Commission modified its rules to enable local 
telephone companies (LECs) to participate in the video marketplace 
through video dialtone. The Commission concluded that allowing 
telephone company involvement in the video marketplace, consistent with 
statutory telephone company-cable television cross-ownership 
restrictions, will advance the FCC's goals of creating opportunities 
and incentives to develop an advanced telecommunications 
infrastructure, increasing competition in the video marketplace, and 
enhancing the diversity of video services to the American public in 
order to promote consumer choice.
    The Commission decided that it will permit, but not require LECs to 
provide video dialtone to the public consistent with the existing 
regulatory framework for non-video enhanced services and subject to 
additional requirements. These additional requirements, which have been 
approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), provided, in 
relevant part, that: (1) LECs wishing to offer video dialtone must make 
available to multiple service providers, on a nondiscriminatory common 
carrier basis, a basic platform that will deliver video programming and 
potentially other services to end users; (2) local telephone companies 
will be permitted to provide some additional enhanced and other non-
common carrier services to customers of the common carrier platform, 
and the Commission will apply existing safeguards against 
anticompetitive conduct; and (3) in addition to existing requirements 
of Part 63, telephone companies that wish to offer video dialtone must 
describe how their proposed construction and operation of the basic 
platform will serve multiple video programmers and expand as demand 
increases.
    In CC Docket No. 87-266, MO&O on Reconsideration and Third FNPRM, 
the Commission requires LECs providing video dialtone service to notify 
the Chief of the Common Carrier Bureau of any anticipated or existing 
capacity shortfall in their video dialtone platform [[Page 3642]] and 
of plans for addressing such shortfall. Such notice must be provided 
within thirty days after the LEC becomes aware of an anticipated 
shortfall or within five days after denying capacity to a video 
programmer, whichever occurs first. The Commission also conforms its 
existing enhanced services safeguards against anticompetitive conduct 
by adding video dialtone delivery service to the service categories for 
which it requires that Regional Bell Operating Companies (RBOCs) and 
GTE Service Corporation (GTE) report installation and maintenance 
activities. In addition, the Commission requires the RBOCs and GTE to 
file, within 90 days after publication in the Federal Register, a 
detailed description of the types of Customer Proprietary Network 
Information (CPNI) to which they anticipate having access as providers 
of video dialtone service, and to explain how they would plan to use 
such information in marketing video dialtone services to video 
programmers or consumers.

Federal Communications Commission.
William F. Caton,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-1159 Filed 1-17-95; 8:45 am]
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