PUBLIC NOTICE
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DA 12-1819
Release Date:  November 9, 2012
WIRELINE COMPETITION BUREAU WAIVES DEFAULT COMMENT CYCLE FOR 
PETITION TO REVERSE FORBEARANCE FROM DOMINANT CARRIER REGULATION OF 
INCUMBENT LOCAL EXCHANGE CARRIERS’ NON-TDM-BASED SPECIAL ACCESS 
SERVICES
WC Docket No. 05-25; RM-10593
The Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) hereby waives the default comment cycle on a 
petition filed on November 2, 2012 by the Ad Hoc Telecommunications Users Committee, BT Americas 
Inc., Cbeyond, Inc., Computer and Communications Industry Association, EarthLink, Inc., MegaPath 
Corporation, Sprint Nextel Corporation and tw telecom inc. (collectively, “Petitioners”).1 By their 
Petition, Petitioners seek to “reverse the forbearance from dominant carrier regulation and certain 
Computer Inquiry requirements granted to the Verizon Telephone Companies (“Verizon”), AT&T Inc 
(“AT&T”), the legacy Embarq Local Operating Companies (“legacy Embarq”), the Frontier and Citizens 
ILECs (“Frontier”), and legacy Qwest Corporation (“legacy Qwest”), in their provision of non-TDM-
based special access services.”2
Given the scope and complexity of the issues raised by the Petition, the Bureau finds there is 
good cause to waive the ten-day comment cycle our default rules provide to allow interested parties 
sufficient time to fully respond to the issues raised in the Petition.3 The Bureau therefore waives the 
default comment cycle and will establish a pleading cycle for the Petition in a future Public Notice.4
For further information, please contact Elizabeth McIntyre, Wireline Competition Bureau, Pricing 
Policy Division, at (202) 418-1520 or via email at Elizabeth.McIntyre@fcc.gov or Jamie Susskind, 
Wireline Competition Bureau, Pricing Policy Division, at (202) 418-1520 or via email at 
Jamie.Susskind@fcc.gov.  
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1 47 C.F.R. § 1.45; Petition of Ad Hoc Telecommunications Users Committee, BT Americas, CBeyond, Computer 
& Communications Industry Association, EarthLink, MegaPath, Sprint Nextel, and tw telecom to Reverse 
Forbearance from Dominant Carrier Regulation of Incumbent LECS’ Non-TDM-Based Special Access Services, 
WC Docket No. 05-25, RM-10593 (filed Nov. 2, 2012) (Petition).  
2 Petition at 1. 
3 47 C.F.R. § 1.45.
4 47 C.F.R. §§ 0.91, 0.291, 1.3.