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 PUBLIC  NOTICE  Federal  Communications  Commission  445  12th  St.,  S.  W.  Washington,  D.  C.  20554 
 DA  01-  494 
 COMMISSION  SEEKS  COMMENT  ON  PETITIONS  FOR  CONDITIONAL  WAIVER 
 FILED  BY  CINCINNATI  BELL  TELEPHONE  COMPANY 


 CC  Docket  No.  98-  147 
 Released:  February  22,  2001 
 Comments:  March  9,  2001 
 Reply  Comments:  Waived 


 On  February  9,  2001,  Cincinnati  Bell  Telephone  Company  (CBT)  filed  a  petition 
 for  conditional  waiver  of  certain  requirements  adopted  in  Deployment  of  Wireline 
 Services  Offering  Advanced  Telecommunications  Capability,  Order  on 
 Reconsideration,  FCC  00-  297  (rel.  Aug  10,  2000)  (Collocation  Reconsideration 
 Order). 


 The  Collocation  Reconsideration  Order  requires  incumbent  local  exchange 
 carriers  (LECs)  to  provision  physical  collocation  arrangements  within  90  days  of 
 receiving  an  acceptable  collocation  application,  except  to  the  extent  a  state  sets  its 
 own  standards  or  a  requesting  carrier  and  an  incumbent  LEC  agree  to  an  alternative 
 standard.  CBT  requests  a  conditional  waiver  of  that  90-  day  interval  similar  to  the 
 waivers  granted  to  Verizon  Telephone  Companies  (Verizon)  and  SBC 
 Communications  Inc.  (SBC)  in  Deployment  of  Wireline  Services  Offering  Advanced 
 Telecommunications  Capability,  CC  Docket  No.  98-  147,  Memorandum  Opinion  and 
 Order,  DA  00-  2528  (Com.  Car.  Bur.,  Nov.  7,  2000)  (Collocation  Waiver  Order). 
 CBT  states  that  if  the  Commission  grants  CBT’s  waiver  request,  CBT  will  apply  the 
 application  processing  and  provisioning  intervals  that  the  Collocation  Waiver  Order 
 approved  for  Verizon  and  SBC  to  collocation  requests  arising  in  the  three  states  in  the 
 CBT  region  in  which  the  state  commission  has  not  prescribed  collocation  intervals. 


 Interested  parties  may  file  comments  regarding  the  CBT  petition  for  conditional 
 waiver  no  later  than  March  9,  2001.  We  waive  section  1.45  of  the  Commission’s 
 rules  insofar  as  it  permits  reply  comments.  All  filings  regarding  the  CBT  petition  for 
 conditional  waiver  should  reference  the  Common  Carrier  Bureau  docket  assigned  to 
 this  proceeding,  CC  Docket  No.  98-  147. 


 Comments  filed  through  the  ECFS  can  be  sent  as  an  electronic  file  via  the  Internet  to 
 http://  www.  fcc.  gov/  e-  file/  efcs.  html.  Generally,  only  one  copy  of  an  electronic  submission 


 News  media  information  202  /  418-  0500 
 Fax-  On-  Demand  202  /  418-  2830 
 TTY  202  /  418-  2555 
 Internet:  http://  www.  fcc.  gov 
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 must  be  filed.  If  multiple  docket  or  rulemaking  numbers  appear  in  the  caption  of  this 
 proceeding,  however,  commenters  must  transmit  one  electronic  copy  of  the  comments  for 
 each  docket  or  rulemaking  number  referenced  in  the  caption.  In  completing  the  transmittal 
 screen,  commenters  should  include  their  full  name,  Postal  Service  mailing  address,  and  the 
 applicable  docket  or  rulemaking  number.  Parties  may  also  submit  an  electronic  comment  by 
 Internet  e-  mail.  To  get  filing  instructions  for  e-  mail  comments,  commenters  should  send  an  e-mail 
 to  efcs@  fcc.  gov,  and  should  include  the  following  words  in  the  body  of  the  message, 
 “get  form  <your  e-  mail  address.”  A  sample  form  and  directions  will  be  sent  in  reply. 


 We  will  treat  this  proceeding  as  “permit  but  disclose”  for  purposes  of  the  Commission’s  ex 
 parte  rules.  See  generally  47  C.  F.  R.  §§  1.1200-  1.1216.  Parties  making  oral  ex  parte 
 presentations  are  reminded  that  memoranda  summarizing  the  presentation  must  contain  a 
 summary  of  the  substance  of  the  presentation  and  not  merely  a  listing  of  the  subjects 
 discussed.  More  than  a  one  or  two  sentence  description  of  the  views  and  arguments 
 presented  is  generally  required.  See  47  C.  F.  R.  §  1.1206(  b)(  2),  as  revised.  Other  rules 
 pertaining  to  oral  and  written  presentations  are  set  forth  in  section  1.1206(  b)  as  well. 
 Interested  parties  are  to  file  with  the  Secretary,  FCC,  and  serve  Janice  M.  Myles  and  ITS, 
 with  copies  of  any  written  ex  parte  presentations  or  summaries  of  oral  ex  parte  presentations 
 in  these  proceedings  in  the  manner  specified  above. 


 For  further  information,  contact  Janice  M.  Myles,  Policy  and  Program  Planning  Division, 
 Common  Carrier  Bureau,  at  (202)  418-  1580,  e-  mail  jmyles@  fcc.  gov. 


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