DA 92-113 Federal Communications Commission Record 7 FCC Red No. 3 
Before the 
Federal Communications Commission 
Washington, D.C. 20554 
PUBLIC NOTICE 
Released: January 30, 1992 
PLEADING CYCLE ESTABLISHED FOR 
PACIFIC TELESIS GROUP'S PETITION 
FOR WAIVER OF THE COMMISSION'S 
ACCESS TIME STANDARDS FOR 
800 DATA BASE SERVICE 
CC DOCKET NO. 86-10 
On January 21. 1992. Pacific Telesis Group (PacTel). 
through its operating companies Pacific Bell and Nevada 
Bell. filed a petition for waiver of certain provisions of 
the Commission's Memorandum Opinion and Order on 
Reconsideration and Second Supplemental Notice of Pro­
posed Rulemaking adopted August 1. 1991 in CC Docket 
No. 86-10. 6 FCC Red 5421 (Reconsideration Order). 
Specifically. Pac Tel seeks a waiver of the access time 
standards established in the Reconsideration Order. Pursu­
ant to these standards, the Bell Operating Companies and 
GTE Telephone Companies are required to reduce access 
time under a data base system of 800 access to five 
seconds or less for 97% of their originating 800 traffic by 
March 1993. Within two years thereafter. these carriers 
are required to have none of their data base 800 traffic 
experience an access time of greater than five seconds. 
and the mean access time for all of their 800 data base 
traffic must be 2.5 seconds or less. See 6 FCC Red at 
5425. 
PacTel states that actual testing of the data base system 
indicates that data base system access times will be greater 
than previously projected and that consequently. PacTel 
cannot meet the Commission·s access time standards and 
deadlines at a reasonable cost. PacTel asks the Commis­
sion to waive the access time requirements of the Reconsi­
deration Order to permit: (i) an access time of six seconds 
or less for 97% of PacTel"s traffic and five seconds or less 
for 82.1 % of its traffic by March 1993. with a mean access 
time of 2.5 seconds: and (ii) an access time of five seconds 
or less for 97.7% of PacTel's traffic by March 1995. with a 
mean access time of one second. 
PacTel states that by granting this waiver. the Commis­
sion will attain the goals set out in the Reconsideration 
Order to promote competition in the 800 service market 
and to promote advances in network infrastructure. while 
balancing PacTel's need to make economic and rational 
network design decisionmaking. In addition. PacTel as­
serts that the great majority of the public will benefit 
from having mean access times lower than those man­
dated by the Commission. 
Interested parties should file comments on the petition 
by February 20, 1992, and reply comments by March 2, 
1992, with the Secretary. FCC. 1919 M Street. N.W .. 
Washington. D.C. 20554. A copy should also be sent to 
John S. Morabito, Common Carrier Bureau. FCC. Room 
544, 1919 M Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20554, and 
to the Commission's contractor for public service records 
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duplication: Downtown Copy Center, 1114 21st Street, 
N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036. Copies of the petition can 
be obtained from Downtown Copy Center at (202) 
452-1422. 
We will treat this proceeding as non-restricted for pur­
poses of the Commission ·s ex parte rules. See generally 4 7 
C.F.R. §§ 1.1200-1.1216. For further information, contact 
John S. Morabito or Gary Phillips. Policy and Program 
Planning Division, Common Carrier Bureau, at (202) 
632-4047. 
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION