7/16. The U.S. Court of Appeals (DCCir) issued its opinion [11 pages in PDF] in Verizon v. FCC, granting Verizon's petition for review of the FCC's order denying its request to forebear from requiring it to unbundle and lease certain elements of its network.

On July 29, 2002, Verizon, an incumbent local exchange carrier (ILEC) and Bell Operating Company (BOC), filed a petition for forbearance [9 pages in PDF] with the FCC. (With attachments, the filing is 799 pages.)

47 U.S.C. § 160 provides, in part, that the FCC "shall forbear from applying any regulation or any provision of this chapter to a telecommunications carrier or telecommunications service, or class of telecommunications carriers or telecommunications services, in any or some of its or their geographic markets, if the Commission determines that (1) enforcement of such regulation or provision is not necessary to ensure that the charges, practices, classifications, or regulations by, for, or in connection with that telecommunications carrier or telecommunications service are just and reasonable and are not unjustly or unreasonably discriminatory; (2) enforcement of such regulation or provision is not necessary for the protection of consumers; and (3) forbearance from applying such provision or regulation is consistent with the public interest."

Verizon requested that the FCC "forbear from applying items four through six and item ten of the Section 271 competitive checklist once the corresponding elements no longer need to be unbundled under Section 251(d)(2)."

47 U.S.C. § 271 limits the circumstances in which a BOC, such as Verizon, could provide interLATA (long distance) services. § 271(c) addresses in region interLATA services, and requires that a BOC meet certain interconnection requirements. § 271(c)(2)(B) provides the fourteen point competitive checklist to determine whether a BOC has provided access and interconnection.

The four items on this checklist relevant to this case are as follows:

"(iv) Local loop transmission from the central office to the customer's premises, unbundled from local switching or other services."
"(v) Local transport from the trunk side of a wireline local exchange carrier switch unbundled from switching or other services."
"(vi) Local switching unbundled from transport, local loop transmission, or other services."
"(x) Nondiscriminatory access to databases and associated signaling necessary for call routing and completion."

47 U.S.C. § 251 provides the interconnection requirements of all telecommunications carriers, and § 251(c) provides additional interconnection requirements for ILECs. In particular, § 251(c)(3) states that ILECs have "The duty to provide, to any requesting telecommunications carrier for the provision of a telecommunications service, nondiscriminatory access to network elements on an unbundled basis at any technically feasible point on rates, terms, and conditions that are just, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory in accordance with the terms and conditions of the agreement and the requirements of this section and section 252 of this title. An incumbent local exchange carrier shall provide such unbundled network elements in a manner that allows requesting carriers to combine such elements in order to provide such telecommunications service."

§ 251(d)(1) then requires that "Within 6 months after February 8, 1996, the Commission shall complete all actions necessary to establish regulations to implement the requirements of this section." And, § 251(d)(2) provides that "In determining what network elements should be made available for purposes of subsection (c)(3) of this section, the Commission shall consider, at a minimum, whether ... the failure to provide access to such network elements would impair the ability of the telecommunications carrier seeking access to provide the services that it seeks to offer."

While the Telecommunications Act of 1996 required that this process be completed in 1996, the FCC is still involved in this process. It has three times promulgated unbundling rules; three times the courts have struck down parts of these rules.

Verizon argued in its petition for forbearance that when an element no longer meets the § 251(d)(2) standard for unbundling, forbearance with respect to the parallel § 271 checklist item is required by § 160.

§ 160 also requires that the FCC rule on petitions for forbearance within one year of filing, and that the FCC may extent this for 90 days in certain circumstances. The FCC exercised this extension authority. See, extension order [PDF]. (This is DA 03-2496).

Two relevant things happened after the filing of Verizon's petition and before the FCC's ruling. First, the FCC released its triennial review order [576 pages in PDF] on August 21, 2003. This order addressed the unbundling requirements of ILECs. See, story titled "Summary of FCC Triennial Review Order" in TLJ Daily E-Mail Alert No. 725, August 25, 2003. See also, stories titled "FCC Announces UNE Report and Order", "FCC Order Offers Broadband Regulatory Relief", "FCC Announces Decision on Switching", "Commentary: Republicans Split On FCC UNE Order", and "Congressional Reaction To FCC UNE Order" in TLJ Daily E-Mail Alert No. 609, February 21, 2003.

(On March 2, 2004, the U.S. Court of Appeals (DCCir) issued its opinion [62 pages in PDF] in USTA v. FCC in which it upheld parts of the TRO, and struck down other parts of the TRO. See also, story titled "Appeals Court Overturns Key Provisions of FCC Triennial Review Order" in TLJ Daily E-Mail Alert No. 848, March 3, 2004. The Appeals Court upheld portions of the TRO that were challenged by competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) pertaining to broadband facilities. For example, the TRO provides that there is no unbundling requirement for fiber to the home (FTTH) loops.)

Second, Verizon submitted a letter and memorandum [21 pages in PDF] to the FCC on October 24, 2003 in which it stated, "Indeed, although Verizon's petition originally requested forbearance with respect to all elements that do not have to be unbundled under section 251, the broadband issue is sufficiently urgent that we hereby withdraw our request for forbearance with respect to any narrowband elements that do not have to be unbundled under section 251."

Verizon's letter continued, "Specifically, the portion of the forbearance petition that remains pending relates to the broadband elements that the Commission has found" in the Triennial Review Order "do not have to be unbundled under section 251, including fiber-to-the-premises-loops, the packet-switched features, functions and capability of hybrid loops, and packet switching."

The FCC then denied the petition for forbearance on October 27, 2003 in an order [4 pages in PDF] to which it applied a misleading title, "Public Notice", and a misleading subtitle, "Commission Establishes Comment Cycle for New Verizon Petition Requesting Forbearance from Application of Section 271".

The FCC asserted in this order that "We find that Verizon's October 24 Ex Parte Letter abandoned the core legal rationale underlying its Petition and substituted a wholly different argument for forbearance. We therefore deny Verizon's initial Petition because the principal argument for the relief initially requested was rendered moot by the Triennial Review Order and because Verizon substituted a new theory of relief. In light of this substitution, we choose to treat Verizon's October 24 Ex Parte Letter as a new forbearance petition."

Verizon then filed the present petition for review with the Court of Appeals.

Judge Ginsburg, writing for the three judge panel, got straight to the point. The FCC's assertion that Verizon's letter "abandoned the core legal rationale underlying its Petition", wrote Ginsburg, "makes no apparent sense". He reasoned that "broadband elements are merely a subset of the network elements for which Verizon requested forbearance in its July 2002 petition." Hence, the original petition for forbearance addressed broadband elements.

The FCC raised additional arguments in its appeal brief and at oral argument. The Appeals Court rejected these as well.

The Court wrote that "This matter is remanded to the Commission either to grant Verizon’s petition for forbearance or to provide a reasoned explanation for denying it."

This forbearance proceeding at the FCC is a part of the FCC's WC Docket No. 01-338.

This case is Verizon Telephone Companies, Inc. v. FCC and USA, respondents, and AT&T, intervenor, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, App. Ct. No. 03-1396, a petition for review of final order of the FCC.

7/15. The Senate amended and passed its version of HR 4520, which the Senate has titled the "Jumpstart Our Business Strength (JOBS) Act". It is a huge tax bill that repeals the ETI tax regime, and includes other technology related provisions. The House has already passed a different version of the bill.

On May 11, 2004, the Senate passed S 1637, which was also titled the "Jumpstart Our Business Strength (JOBS) Act", by a vote of 92-5. The House then passed its version of HR 4520, which it has titled the "American Jobs Creation Act of 2004", by a vote of 251-178 on June 17, 2004. See, Roll Call No. 259. See also, story titled "House Passes Bill to Repeal ETI" in TLJ Daily E-Mail Alert No. 918, June 18, 2004.

The Senate also appointed conferees to work out the differences between the two versions of the bill. They are Senators Grassley, Hatch, Nickles, Lott, Snowe, Kyl, Thomas, Santorum, Smith, Bunning, McConnell, Gregg, Baucus, Rockefeller, Daschle, Breaux, Conrad, Graham (D-FL), Jeffords, Bingaman, Lincoln, Kennedy, and Harkin.

The original purpose of this legislation was repeal the extraterritorial income (ETI) tax regime. These bills accomplishes this.

The impetus for repealing the ETI tax regime is that the World Trade Organization (WTO) ruled that the Foreign Sales Corporation (FSC) tax regime, and its replacement, the ETI tax regime, constitute illegal export subsidies. The WTO authorized the EU to impose up to $4 Billion in retaliatory tariffs. See also, story titled "EU Imposes FSC/ETI Sanctions" in TLJ Daily E-Mail Alert No. 847, March 2, 2004.

However, this legislation has become the vehicle for passing numerous major and minor taxation related provisions.

Many of the these other provisions are technology related. In the version of the bill just passed by the Senate, see for example, Section 494 pertaining to "Treatment of charitable contributions of patents and similar property", Section 706, pertaining to "Deduction for corporate donations of scientific property and computer technology", and Sections 311 and 312, pertaining to "Extension and modification of research credit" and "Expansion of research credit".

7/15. The Senate passed HR 4759, the "United States-Australia Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act", by a vote of 80-16. See, Roll Call No. 156. The House passed this bill on July 14 by a vote of 314-109. See, Roll Call No. 375. July 14, 2004.

The agreement includes provisions pertaining to electronic commerce and protection of intellectual property rights. It is supported by many technology related groups and companies. For example, Robert Holleyman, P/CEO of the Business Software Alliance (BSA) stated in a release that "The swift passage of this agreement by both the House and the Senate indicates the firm commitment of lawmakers to not only foster an open and competitive environment for IT exports, but to ensure these agreements contain requirements for robust intellectual property protections globally". See also, American Electronics Association (AEA) release.

See also, stories titled "House Passes US Australia FTA" in TLJ Daily E-Mail Alert No. 938, July 15, 2004, "U.S. and Australia Sign FTA" in TLJ Daily E-Mail Alert No. 901, May 19, 2004, and "US and Australia Conclude FTA with Extensive Info Tech Provisions" in TLJ Daily E-Mail Alert No. 833, February 10, 2004.

7/16. The Progress and Freedom Foundation (PFF) released a paper [27 pages in PDF] titled "New Domain Name Services: Should ICANN or Competition Govern?" The paper was written by William Adkinson of the PFF.

This paper argues that competition in the domain name service (DNS) markets promotes consumer welfare and innovation more than does economic regulation by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

It concludes that "The ICANN ``experiment in governance´´ has been long on strife and short on successful outcomes. It is critical that ICANN narrow its focus on getting its core DNS missions (including security) right and cease regulating in areas where competition will promote innovation and protect consumers better than ICANN. The breadth of competitive forces described in this paper, coupled with ICANN’s severe shortcomings as a regulator, establish that ICANN’s proper scope of regulatory activity is narrow."

The paper also asserts that if VeriSign were to prevail in its lawsuit against the ICANN, then "consumers are likely to benefit from increased innovation as well as expanded product and service offerings".

7/16. Howard Beales, Director of the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) Bureau of Consumer Protection (BCP) will leave the FTC on August 6, 2004. He will become an Associate Professor of Strategic Management and Public Policy at George Washington University in Washington DC. Lydia Parnes, the Deputy Director of the BCP will become the acting Director of the BCP. See, FTC release.

7/16. The Senate Commerce Committee announced that it will hold a meeting on Thursday, July 22, at which it will consider, among other items, the nominations of Deborah Majoras and Jonathan Leibowitz to become Commissions of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Majoras would become Chairman, replacing Timothy Muris, who has already announced his intent to depart. See, story titled "Senate Commerce Committee Holds Hearing on FTC Nominees" in TLJ Daily E-Mail Alert No. 910, June 3, 2004.

7/16. President Bush announced his intent to designate Daniel Levin to be the acting Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Office of Legal Counsel. See, White House release.

7/16. Trade representatives of the U.S., Canada and Mexico released a joint statement [4 pages in PDF] regarding the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) titled "A Decade of Achievement".

7/15. Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) gave a speech [4 pages in PDF] titled "Seven Principles of U.S. Trade Policy". He stated that "international trade rules should be about international trade", not about domestic social agendas in areas such as labor and environmental standards, that "protectionism is not free", to the extent that it harms U.S. consumers, and that "free trade lifts all boats". He also argued that "free trade promotes freedom",  that "free trade promotes democratic values", and that "free trade promotes peace". Finally, his seventh principle is that "we must be diligent in protecting past gains from free trade and relentless in our pursuit of open markets".

The House will meet at 12:30 PM for morning hour, and at 2:00 PM for legislative business. Votes will be postponed until 6:30 PM. The House will consider numerous non-technology related items under suspension of the rules. See, Republican Whip Notice.

The Senate will meet at 1:00 PM to consider the nomination of William Myers to be a Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit.

10:00 AM. The U.S. District Court (DC) will hold a status conference in U.S. v. Microsoft, and New York v. Microsoft, Case Nos. 1:1998-cv-01232 and 3, Judge Colleen Kotelly presiding. Location: Courtroom 11, Prettyman Courthouse, 333 Constitution Ave.

5:00 PM. The House Rules Committee will meet to adopt a rule for consideration of HR 3574, the "Stock Option Accounting Reform Act".

The House will meet at 9:00 AM for morning hour, and at 10:00 AM for legislative business. The agenda includes consideration of HR 3574, the "Stock Option Accounting Reform Act". See, Republican Whip Notice.

9:00 AM. The House Ways and Means Committee will meet to mark up HR 4842, the "United States-Morocco Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act". See, notice. Location: Room 1100, Longworth Building.

9:30 AM. The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold an executive business meeting. See, notice. Press contact: Margarita Tapia (Hatch) at 202 224-5225 or David Carle (Leahy) at 202 224-4242. Location: Room 226, Dirksen Building.

CANCELLED. 9:30 AM. The Senate Commerce Committee will hold a business meeting. Press contact: Rebecca Fisher at 202 224-2670. Location: Room 253, Russell Building.

10:30 AM - 12:00 NOON. The Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) will release a report titled "Meeting the Offshoring Challenge". The speakers will include Will Marshall (PPI), Robert Atkinson (PPI, author of the report), Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA), and Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN). See, notice. Location: Room 428A, Russell Building.

12:00 NOON. The Cato Institute will host a panel discussion titled "The Case for CAFTA: Four Ambassadors Speak Out for Free Trade". The speakers will be Hugo Guiliani (Dominican Republic), René León (El Salvador), Guillermo Castillo (Guatemala), and Mario Canahuati (Honduras). See, notice and registration page. Lunch will be served. Location: Cato, 1100 Massachusetts Ave., NW.

1:30 PM. The House Government Reform Committee's Subcommittee on on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and the Census will hold a hearing titled "The Science of Voting Machine Technology: Accuracy, Reliability, and Security". See, notice. Location: Room 2154, Rayburn Building.

2:30 PM. The Senate Banking Committee will hold an oversight hearing to examine the Semi-Annual Monetary Policy Report of the Federal Reserve Bank. FRB Chairman Alan Greenspan will testify. See notice. Location: Room 216, Hart Building.

The House will meet at 10:00 AM. The House may take up HR 4842, the "United States-Morocco Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act" and/or HR 4600, the "Junk Fax Prevention Act of 2004". See, Republican Whip Notice.

9:00 AM. Day one of a two day meeting of the Department of Commerce's (DOC) Bureau of Industry and Standards (BXA/BIS) Information Systems Technical Advisory Committee (ISTAC). Some of the meetings will be closed to the public. The agenda includes a summary of the Wassenaar Arrangement inter-sessional meeting on semiconductor manufacturing equipment, and a presentation on computational capability of graphics processors. See, notice in the Federal Register, July 6, 2004, Vol. 69, No. 128, at Page 40601. Location: DOC, Room 3884, 14th Street between Pennsylvania Ave. and Constitution Ave., NW.

10:00 AM. The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee will hold a hearing to mark up several bills, including S 1230, a bill to provide additional responsibilities for the Chief Information Officer of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) relating to geospatial information, and S 2536, the "Homeland Security Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Protection Act of 2004". See, notice. Location: Room 342, Dirksen Building.

10:00 AM. Alan Greenspan, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, will testify before the House Financial Services Committee. Press contact: Peggy Peterson at 202 226-0471. Location: Room 2128, Rayburn Building.

10:00 AM - 12:00 NOON. The House Science Committee will hold a hearing titled "Cybersecurity Education -- Meeting the Needs of Technology Workers and Employers". Location: Room 2318, Rayburn Building.

10:00 AM. The House Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet will hold a hearing titled "The Digital Television Transition: What We Can Learn From Berlin?" Press contacts: Jon Tripp (Barton) at 202-225-5735 ant Sean Bonyun (Upton) at 202-225-3761. Location: Room 2123, Rayburn Building.

POSTPONED. 10:00 AM. The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on the nomination of Thomas Griffith to be a Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Press contact: Margarita Tapia (Hatch) at 202 224-5225 or David Carle (Leahy) at 202 224-4242. Location: Room 226, Dirksen Building.

12:00 NOON. The Americans for a Secure Internet (ASI) will host a panel discussion titled "Phishing: The Next Challenge for E-commerce". The speakers will be Howard Beales (Director of the FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection), Dan Caprio (Chief Privacy Officer, Department of Commerce), Steve DelBianco (Executive Director, NetChoice), Ben Golub (VeriSign), and Jonathan Zuck (President of the Association for Competitive Technology). See, notice and registration page. For more information, contact Mark Blafkin at 202 331-2130 x104. Location: Room HC-7, Capitol Building.

12:00 NOON. The Heritage Foundation will host a book presentation. James Rogan, a former member of the House Judiciary Committee and a former director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), will talk about his book titled Rough Edges: My Unlikely Road from Welfare to Washington [Amazon]. See, notice. Location: 214 Massachusetts Ave., NE.

1:30 PM. The House Government Reform Committee's Subcommittee on on Technology, Information Policy, Intergovernmental Relations and the Census will hold a hearing titled "Where's the CIO? The Role, Responsibility and Challenge for Federal Chief Information Officers in IT Investment Oversight and Information Management". See, notice. Location: Room 2154, Rayburn Building.

2:00 PM. The House Armed Services Committee's Tactical Air Land Forces Subcommittee will hold a hearing on "Small Business Innovation and Technology". Location: Room 2118, Rayburn Building. This hearing was previously scheduled for July 15.

The House will meet at 10:00 AM. The House may take up HR 4842, the "United States-Morocco Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act" and/or HR 4600, the "Junk Fax Prevention Act of 2004". See, Republican Whip Notice.

9:00 AM. The House Armed Services Committee will hold a hearing on the report of the Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States from Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack. William Graham, the Chairman of the Commission, will testify. Location: Room 2118, Rayburn Building.

9:00 AM. The Senate Governmental Affairs Committee will hold the second part of its hearing titled "Buyer Beware: The Danger of Purchasing Pharmaceuticals over the Internet". The witnesses will be Richard Stana (GAO), Robert Bonner (Bureau of Customs & Border Protection), Karen Tandy (Drug Enforcement Administration), John Potter (Postmaster General, USPS), John Taylor (Food and Drug Administration), John Scheibel (Yahoo), Sheryl Sandberg (Google), Joshua Peirez (Master Card), Steve Ruwe (Visa), Robert Bryden (Federal Express), and Daniel Silva (United Parcel Service). See, notice. Location: Room 342, Dirksen Building.

9:00 AM. Day two of a two day meeting of the Department of Commerce's (DOC) Bureau of Industry and Standards (BXA/BIS) Information Systems Technical Advisory Committee (ISTAC). Some of the meetings will be closed to the public. The agenda includes a summary of the Wassenaar Arrangement inter-sessional meeting on semiconductor manufacturing equipment, and a presentation on computational capability of graphics processors. See, notice in the Federal Register, July 6, 2004, Vol. 69, No. 128, at Page 40601. Location: DOC, Room 3884, 14th Street between Pennsylvania Ave. and Constitution Ave., NW.

? 9:30 AM. The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold an executive business meeting. See, notice. Press contact: Margarita Tapia (Hatch) at 202 224-5225 or David Carle (Leahy) at 202 224-4242. Location: Room 226, Dirksen Building.

CANCELLED. 9:30 AM. The Senate Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on media ownership.

9:30 AM. The Senate Commerce Committee will hold a meeting to mark up numerous bills, and consider several pending nominations. Several of the items on the agenda are technology related, including S 2603, the "Junk Fax Prevention Act of 2004", S 2644, the "Satellite Home Viewer Extension Act", S 2281, the "VOIP Regulatory Freedom Act of 2004", and the nominations of Deborah Majoras (to be a Federal Trade Commission Commissioner), Jonathan Liebowitz (FTC), Benjamin Wu (Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy for the Department of Commerce), and Brett Palmer (Assistant Secretary for Legislative and Intergovernmental Affairs for the Department of Commerce). See, notice. Press contact: Rebecca Fisher at 202 224-2670. Location: Room 253, Russell Building.

12:00 NOON - 2:00 PM. The Progress and Freedom Foundation (PFF) will host a luncheon. The featured speaker will be Wayne Brunetti, Ch/CEO of Xcel Energy. His address may include many topics, including broadband internet access over power lines (BPL). The FCC issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) on BPL on February 12, 2004. See, story titled "FCC Adopts Broadband Over Powerline NPRM" in TLJ Daily E-Mail Alert No. 836, February 13, 2004. Xcel has filed comments. See, April 5 comment [15 pages in PDF] on BPL, and July 14 comment [16 pages in PDF] in IP enabled services proceeding. This NPRM is FCC 04-29 in ET Docket Nos. 03-104 and 04-37. See, notice and registration page. Press contact: David Fish at 202 775-2644. Location: Rotunda Room, Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW.

LOCATION CHANGE. 1:00 PM. The House Ways and Means Committee's Subcommittee on Health will hold a hearing titled "Electronic Prescribing". See, notice. Location: Room B-318, Rayburn Building.

2:00 PM. The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on S 2560, the "Inducing Infringement of Copyrights Act of 2004". See, story titled "Senators Introduce Bill to Amend Copyright Act to Ban Inducement of Infringement" in TLJ Daily E-Mail Alert No. 925, June 24, 2004. See, notice. Press contact: Margarita Tapia (Hatch) at 202 224-5225 or David Carle (Leahy) at 202 224-4242. Location: Room 226, Dirksen Building.

EXTENDED TO SEPTEMBER 10. Deadline to submit initial comments to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in response to its public notice (DA 04-1690) requesting public comments on constitutionally permissible ways for the FCC to identify and eliminate market entry barriers for small telecommunications businesses and to further opportunities in the allocation of spectrum-based services for small businesses and businesses owned by women and minorities. See, notice in the Federal Register, June 22, 2004, Vol. 69, No. 119, at Pages 34672 - 34673. See also, notice of extension [PDF].

The House may meet at 9:00 AM. See, Republican Whip Notice.

12:30 PM. The Cato Institute will host a panel discussion titled "The Case for CAFTA: Promoting Freedom in our Neighborhood". The speakers will be Dan Griswold (Cato) and Mario Canahuati (Ambassador from Honduras). See, notice and registration page. Lunch will be served. Location: Room B-354, Rayburn Building.

Deadline to submit comments to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in response to its notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) regarding a national one call notification system. The FCC adopted this NPRM on May 13, 2004, and released the text [34 pages in PDF] on May 14, 2004. See, story titled "FCC Adopts NPRM Regarding One Call Notification System" in TLJ Daily E-Mail Alert No. 899, May 17, 2004. This NPRM is FCC 04-111 in CC Docket No. 92-105. See, notice in the Federal Register, June 8, 2004, Vol. 69, No. 110, at Pages 31930 - 31939.

Deadline to submit comments to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in response to its Notice of Inquiry (NOI) [30 pages in PDF] regarding its annual report to the Congress on the status of competition in the market for the delivery of video programming. See also, story titled "FCC Adopts NOI For Annual Report to Congress on Video Programming" in TLJ Daily E-Mail Alert No. 916, June 11, 2004. This NOI is FCC 04-136 in MB Docket No. 04-227. See also, notice in the Federal Register, July 1, 2004, Vol. 69, No. 126, at Pages 39930 - 39933.

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