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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  06-  1948  Released:  September  28,  2006 
 PLEADING  CYCLE  ESTABLISHED  FOR  ARIZONA  DIALTONE  INC.  PETITION  FOR  RECONSIDERATION  AND  IDT  TELECOM,  INC.  PETITION  FOR  CLARIFICATION  OR,  IN 
 THE  ALTERNATIVE,  FOR  RECONSIDERATION  OF  THE  PREPAID  CALLING  CARD  ORDER 


 WC  Docket  No.  05-  68 
 COMMENTS:  October  12,  2006  REPLY  COMMENTS:  October  23,  2006 


 On  August  31,  2006,  Arizona  Dialtone  Inc.  (Arizona  Dialtone)  filed  a  petition  for  reconsideration  1  of  the  Commission’s  Prepaid  Calling  Card  Order.  2  Specifically,  Arizona  Dialtone  is 
 asking  the  Commission  to:  (1)  clarify  the  party  responsible  to  pay  access  charges  when  local  access  is  used  to  place  a  prepaid  calling  card  call;  (2)  establish  reporting  requirements  that  impose  additional  duties 
 on  local  exchange  carriers  (LECs)  who  provide  direct  inward  dialing  numbers  (DIDs)  that  are  used  for  originating  long  distance  prepaid  calling  card  calls;  (3)  establish  intermediate  carrier  reporting  obligations 
 on  resellers  in  the  DID  call  path  if  the  party  responsible  to  pay  access  charges  for  DID-  routed  calls  is  the  prepaid  service  provider;  (4)  clarify  that  if  a  prepaid  calling  card  provider’s  underlying  transport  carrier  is 
 not  the  party  paying  access  charges,  then  this  intermediate  carrier  has  a  duty  to  pass  on  the  percentage  interstate  usage  (PIU)  factors  to  its  underlying  carrier  so  that  the  data  ultimately  reaches  the  LEC  and;  (5) 
 require  prepaid  calling  card  service  providers  to  provide  –  along  with  their  quarterly  PIU  factors  –  quarterly  lists  of  local  DID  numbers  utilized  in  the  provision  of  long  distance  calling.  The  Commission 
 published  notification  of  this  petition  for  reconsideration  on  September  14,  2006.  3  This  notification  has  been  published  in  the  Federal  Register  4  and  the  comment  cycle  has  been  established  pursuant  to  section 
 1.429  of  the  Commission’s  rules.  5 
 On  September  1,  2006,  IDT  Telecom,  Inc.  (IDT)  filed  a  petition  for  clarification  or,  in  the  alternative,  for  reconsideration  asking  the  Commission  to  clarify  a  portion  of  the  Prepaid  Calling  Card 
 Order.  6  Specifically,  IDT  asks  the  Commission  to  clarify  that  footnote  101  in  the  Prepaid  Calling  Card 
 1  Arizona  Dialtone  Inc.  Petition  for  Reconsideration,  WC  Docket  No.  05-  68  (filed  Aug.  31,  2006). 


 2  See  Regulation  of  Prepaid  Calling  Card  Services,  WC  Docket  No.  05-  68,  Declaratory  Ruling  and  Report  and 
 Order,  FCC  06-  79  (June  30,  2006)  (Prepaid  Calling  Card  Order). 
 3  See  Petition  for  Reconsideration  of  Action  in  Rulemaking  Proceeding,  Report  No.  2792,  Public  Notice  (rel.  Sept. 
 14,  2006). 
 4  See  71  Fed.  Reg.  56532  (Sept.  27,  2006). 


 5  See  47  C.  F.  R.  §  1.429. 
 6  Petition  for  Clarification  or,  in  the  Alternative,  for  Reconsideration  of  IDT  Telecom,  Inc.,  WC  Docket  No.  05-  68 
 (filed  Sept.  1,  2006). 
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