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 NEWS  News  Media  Information  202  /  418-  0500  TTY  202  /  418-  2555  Fax-  On-  Demand  202  /  418-  2830  Internet:  http://  www.  fcc.  gov  ftp.  fcc.  gov  Federal  Communications  Commission  445  12  th  Street,  S.  W.  Washington,  D.  C.  20554  This  is  an  unofficial  announcement  of  Commission  action.  Release  of  the  full  text  of  a  Commission  order  constitutes  official  action.  See  MCI  v.  FCC.  515  F  2d  385  (D.  C.  Circ  1974). 
 FOR  IMMEDIATE  RELEASE 
 APRIL  24,  2001 


 NEWS  MEDIA  CONTACT: 
 DAVID  FISKE  (202)  418-  0500 


 ENFORCEMENT  BUREAU  PROPOSES  FINES  TOTALING  $147,000  TO  22  CARRIERS  FOR  FAILURE  TO  FILE  MANDATORY  NUMBER  USAGE  REPORTS 
 The  Chief,  Enforcement  Bureau,  acting  pursuant  to  delegated  authority,  today  issued  Notices  of 
 Apparent  Liability  for  Forfeiture  (“  NALs”)  to  22  carriers  for  failing  to  file  mandatory  reports  as 
 to  their  actual  and  forecast  number  usage.  The  fines  issued  pursuant  to  these  NALs  are  for 
 amounts  ranging  between  $6,000  and  $12,000  based  on  the  numbering  resources  assigned  to 
 each  carrier. 


 Section  52.15(  f)  of  the  Commission’s  rules  requires  U.  S.  carriers  receiving  numbering  resources 
 from  the  North  American  Numbering  Plan  Administrator  (“  NANPA”),  a  Pooling  Administrator, 
 or  another  telecommunications  carrier,  to  file  NRUF  reports  semi-  annually.  The  reporting 
 requirements  were  adopted  to  facilitate  the  monitoring  of  numbering  resource  usage  and  to 
 promote  more  efficient  use  of  numbering  resources  and  forestall  premature  exhaustion  of 
 numbering  resources. 


 Each  of  the  22  carriers  failed  to  file  the  NRUF  report  due  September  15,  2000.  In  addition,  each 
 of  these  carriers  failed  to  respond  to  the  Bureau’s  inquiry  concerning  its  failure  to  file  the 
 mandatory  report.  The  carriers  involved  and  the  amount  of  proposed  forfeitures  are  as  follows: 
 Allpage,  Inc.,  $6,000;  American  Metrocomm  Corp.,  $6,000;  ATX  Telecommunications  Services, 
 Ltd.,  $9,  000;  CDS  Networks,  Inc.,  $6,000;  Chickasaw  Telephone  Co.,  $6,000;  Core 
 Communications,  Inc.,  $6,  000;  Digital  Teleport,  Inc.,  $6,  000;  Fulltel,  Inc.,  $6,000;  IDS  Long 
 Distance,  $6,000;  Litelco  Communications,  Inc.,  $6,000;  Neclec,  LLC,  $6,000;  Net-  Tel 
 Corporation,  $6,000;  Network  Plus,  Inc.,  $6,000;  North  American  Telecommunications 
 Corporation,  $6,000;  North  County  Communications  Corp.,  $6,  000;  Optel  Texas  Telecom,  Inc., 
 $9,000;  Paging  Source  USA,  LLC,  $6000;  R  and  G  Distributors,  $6,000;  Trivergent 
 Communications,  Inc.,  $6,  000;  USA  Mobile  Communications,  Inc.  II,  $12,  000,  Vanguard 
 Cellular  Systems,  Inc.,  $9,000;  and  Winsome  Paging,  Inc.,  $6,000. 
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 Action  by  the  Chief,  Enforcement  Bureau,  April  24,  2001,  Notices  of  Apparent  Liability,  DA  01- 
 991-  DA  01-  1012. 


 Enforcement  Bureau  contacts:  David  Fiske,  (202)  418-  0500  and  Melanie  Godschall,  (202)  418-7259. 


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