Letter to Telephone Exchange Service Providers Giving Notice of Proposed Release of Data Submitted by Providers

Résumé

In response to several requests, the Common Carrier Bureau (Bureau) of the Federal Communications Commission (Commission) intends to release a compiled database comprising non-confidential subscriber and financial information submitted by local exchange carriers (LECs) is response to an Order, released December 1, 1994. The individual non- confidential responses of the LECs have already been released to the public. To guard against the possibility that LEC information previously claimed to be confidential is included in the database to be released, the Bureau is taking two steps. As described more fully below in a letter from Kenneth P. Moran, Chief of the Bureau's Accounting and Audits Division, the Bureau, first, is excluding from the database to be released a limited number of data fields that a large number of LECs claimed to contain confidential information. Second, the Bureau is requesting LECs that have previously claimed fields confidential in addition to those generally being excluded from the database to reassert those claims not later than September 25, 1995. Failure to reassert such claims will be deemed to constitute waiver of objection to release of such information d