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 PUBLIC  NOTICE  Federal  Communications  Commission  445  12  th  St.,  S.  W.  Washington,  D.  C.  20554  News  Media  Information  202  /  418-  0500  Internet:  http://  www.  fcc.  gov  TTY:  1-  888-  835-  5322 
 DA  03-  213 
 January  28,  2003 


 Verizon’s  Request  for  Permission  to  Withdraw  Petition  for  Partial  Reconsideration 
 Is  Granted 
 Transmittal  Nos.  425,  467 


 On  April  22,  2002,  Verizon  Communications  Corporation  filed  a  Request  for  Permission  to  Withdraw  its  April  5,  1991  Petition  for  Partial  Reconsideration.  1  The  Petition  sought  reconsideration 
 of  the  Common  Carrier  Bureau’s  order  of  March  5,  1991  that  established  a  “blanket”  waiver  for  all  carriers  that  provide  or  wish  to  provide  the  operator  services  of  Line  Status  Verification,  Call 
 Interruption,  and  Operator  Transfer  Service.  The  waiver  required  the  creation  of  separate  operator  services  access  elements,  and  required  that  the  costs  associated  with  those  services  be  allocated  to  the 
 same  elements.  Verizon  states  that  the  issues  it  raised  in  its  petition  are  moot,  as  the  Commission’s  price  cap  rules  no  longer  require  waivers  for  the  establishment  of  new  switched  access  rate  elements.  2 
 The  Pricing  Policy  Division  of  the  Wireline  Competition  Bureau  has  reviewed  and  hereby  approves  Verizon’s  request  to  withdraw  its  petition. 


 Action  by  the  Chief,  Pricing  Policy  Division,  Wireline  Competition  Bureau. 
 For  further  information,  contact  Lenworth  Smith,  Pricing  Policy  Division,  Wireline  Competition  Bureau,  at  (202)  418-  1530. 


 1  The  Petition  was  filed  by  Bell  Atlantic,  which  merged  to  form  Verizon.  The  Verizon  telephone  companies  are  the 
 affiliated  local  telephone  companies  of  Verizon  Communications  Corporation. 
 2  See  Access  Charge  Reform,  CC  Docket  No.  96-  262,  Fifth  Report  and  Order  and  Further  Notice  of  Proposed 
 Rulemaking,  14  FCC  Rcd  14221  (1999). 
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