TECHNOLOGY TRANSITIONS UPDATE: 
SERVICE-BASED EXPERIMENTS 
June 13, 2014 
Data Collection and Analysis 
• FCC procurement will 
select 3rd-party expert 
• Will assist in, inter alia 
– developing methodology 
– data collection 
– data analysis 
•  Scalable to other 
experiments and contexts 
 
AT&T Proposal – Trial Wire Centers 
Proposed Retail Replacements 
U-verse 
• Voice (VoIP) 
• High-Speed 
Internet 
Wireless 
Home 
Phone 
• Voice 
• 4G LTE 
Broadband 
Other 
• 4% in Carbon 
Hill TBD 
POTS 
AT&T’s Announced Plans: Nationwide 
AT&T’s Trial Proposal: Kings Point 
AT&T’s Trial Proposal: Carbon Hill 
Points to be Developed for Retail Trial 
• Wireless Home Phone 
– Analog data features 
– ALI for E911 
– TTY accessibility & 
compatibility 
– Price and data 
allowances 
• Wireless Business product 
• GETS capability for 
interconnected VoIP; WPS 
• Replacements for 4% of 
Carbon Hill living units 
Possible AT&T Wholesale Trial 
• State of the record 
– During initial phases, AT&T 
commits to maintain 
wholesale access. 
– AT&T intends to seek 
permission in future for 
wholesale trial 
– Focal point for many 
commenters 
“We further expect that any proposal 
of an ongoing [wholesale] experiment 
would . . . offer to replace wholesale 
inputs with services that offer 
substantially similar wholesale access 
to the applicant’s network.”   
- Tech Transitions Order at Ά 59 
Status of Proposal: “Phase 0” 
0 
• Started on Feb. 27, 2014; Initial outreach, planning 
• No impact on customers’ options 
1 
• Grandfathering of existing retail accounts 
• Preceded by Section 214(a) applications and public process 
2 
• Sunsetting of existing retail accounts 
• Preceded by Section 214(a) applications and public process 
Other Activities 
Rural 
Experiments 
Numbering 
Testbed 
Consumer 
Data Initiative 
Public Safety 
Tech Transitions 
Workshop 
Targeted 
Research for 
persons w/ 
disabilities 
Rural 
Broadband 
Workshop 
IP-based Relay 
Services 
Workshop