Opinion ID: 501656
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Heading: Relative Use Traffic Study Period

Text: 46 For many years, telephone companies have been required by the FCC's Separations Manual to measure relative traffic over a representative period. These studies provide the basis for apportioning traffic sensitive costs and for dividing revenues among the companies. Brief for Rural Telephone Coalition at 21; Brief for FCC at 19. Before us for review is the Commission's decision to accept the Joint Board's recommendation that telephone companies be required to base their measurements on seven-day traffic study periods. In order to accomplish this goal, the Commission amended the Manual by requiring that the study periods be representative for all traffic. First Decision, 96 F.C.C.2d at 808-09 (emphasis added); see Joint Board I, 48 Fed.Reg. at 46,572-73.