[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 169 (Thursday, August 30, 2018)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 44241-44245]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-18804]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
47 CFR Part 54
[WC Docket No. 10-90, WT Docket No. 10-208; FCC 18-124]
Connect America Fund Universal Service Reform--Mobility Fund
AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.
ACTION: Final action; extension of filing period; petitions for
reconsideration.
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SUMMARY: This document addresses two applications for review regarding
the procedures and parameters of the Mobility Fund II challenge process
and grant in part and deny in part a related extension request.
DATES: This Order is effective August 30, 2018. The window for filing
challenges to ineligible areas extended to November 26, 2018.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Wireless Telecommunications Bureau,
Auctions and Spectrum Access Division, Audra Hale-Maddox, at (202) 418-
0660.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a summary of the final actions in
the Federal Communications Commission (``Commission'') Order, Notice of
Proposed Rulemaking and Memorandum Opinion and Order (Combined Order),
FCC 18-124, adopted on August 14, 2018, and released on August 21,
2018. The complete text of this document is available for public
inspection and copying from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time (ET)
Monday through Thursday or from 8 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. ET on Fridays in
the FCC Reference Information Center, 445 12th Street SW, Room CY-A257,
Washington, DC 20554. The complete text is also available on the
Commission's website at http://wireless.fcc.gov, or by using the search
function on the ECFS web page at http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/ecfs/.
Alternative formats are available to persons with disabilities by
sending an email to [email protected] or by calling the Consumer &
Governmental Affairs Bureau at (202) 418-0530 (voice), (202) 418-0432
(TTY).
I. Synposis
On August 21, 2018, the Commission released an ``Order, Notice of
Proposed Rulemaking, and Memorandum Opinion and Order'' (August 21
Order). The Commission separately published the proposed modifications
to the speed test data specifications regarding the relevant timeframes
for valid speed tests for the August 21 Order elsewhere in this issue
of the Federal Register. In the August 21 Order, the Commission
extended the previously announced deadline for the close of the
Mobility Fund Phase II (MF-II) challenge window by an additional 90
days. Challengers were given until November 26, 2018, to submit speed
test data in support of a challenge. The Commission adopted this
extension to ensure that interested parties can initiate and submit
speed test data for areas they wish to challenge. In addition, given
this extension, the Commission proposed to make modifications to the
speed test data specifications regarding the relevant timeframes for
valid speed tests. The Commission also addressed two applications for
review regarding the procedures and parameters of the MF-II challenge
process and granted in part and denied in part a related extension
request.
II. Order Extending the Challenge Window
1. In February 2017, the Commission adopted rules to move forward
on a reverse auction that will direct up to $4.53 billion of MF-II
support over ten years to providers in geographic areas lacking
unsubsidized 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) services. The Commission also
determined that it would compile a list of areas that were
presumptively eligible for MF-II support and provide a limited
timeframe before the auction during which interested parties could
challenge areas that were not listed as presumptively eligible (i.e.,
``presumptively ineligible'' areas). In February 2018, the Rural
Broadband Auctions Task Force, in conjunction with the Wireless
Telecommunications Bureau and the Wireline Competition Bureau (the
Bureaus), published a map of areas presumptively eligible for MF-II
support based on a one-time collection by the Commission of 4G LTE
coverage data and subsidy data from the Universal Service
Administrative Company (USAC).
2. The MF-II Challenge Process Order, 82 FR 42473, September 8,
2017, established the framework for a robust challenge process that
will refine the map of areas presumptively eligible to receive MF-II
support. This challenge process is designed to efficiently resolve
disputes about areas that are presumptively ineligible through the
submission, analysis, and validation of mobile network speed test data.
The Commission initially established a 150-day challenge window for
interested parties to contest the initial determination of areas deemed
presumptively ineligible for MF-II support. The challenge window opened
on March 29, 2018, and it was scheduled to close on August 27, 2018.
3. As part of the challenge process framework, the Commission
established various parameters for the acceptance of speed test data,
including that such data would only be accepted if they were collected
within six months of the scheduled close of the challenge window. That
six-month period commenced on February 27, 2018. After the close of the
challenge window, a respondent (i.e., a ``challenged party'') will have
the opportunity to respond to challenges by submitting its own speed
test data or certain technical information that is probative of the
validity of the challenger's speed tests. Speed test data submitted by
respondents is subject to the same standards and requirements
applicable to challengers, except that the Commission established in
the MF-II Challenge Process Order that it would only accept data
submitted by a respondent that was collected within six months of the
scheduled close of the response window.
4. After the Commission adopted the timeframe for the challenge
window, the Rural Wireless Association (RWA) submitted data regarding
estimated burdens of the challenge process, including specific
estimates of the amount of time required to conduct speed tests in
certain areas.
5. The Commission extended the previously established deadline for
challengers to submit data in the challenge process and provide an
additional 90 days, until November 26, 2018, for the submission and
certification of challenges. The Commission direct USAC to implement
this change in the challenge portal.
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6. In light of new estimates and again out of an abundance of
caution, the Commission concluded that while a 150-day challenge window
may still be sufficient for parties to conduct speed tests and submit
challenges, providing an additional 90 days for this window will ensure
that all interested parties have ample opportunity to conduct speed
tests and submit speed test data for the areas they wish to challenge.
Providing this additional time, for a total challenge window of 240
days, ultimately should result in a more efficient allocation of
support funds, while still advancing the overall auction process to a
timely conclusion, directing its limited funds to the unserved areas
most in need, and completing the phase down of duplicative support that
directs subsidies to areas already served by unsubsidized providers.
Accordingly, the Commission makes a procedural change to the challenge
process by extending the deadline for filing challenges to November 26,
2018.
III. Memorandum Opinion and Order Addressing Applications for Review
From RWA and Verizon
7. In the MF-II Challenge Process Procedures Public Notice, 83 FR
13417, March 29, 2018, the Bureaus determined, consistent with the
Commission's decision in the MF-II Challenge Process Order, that speed
test measurements submitted to support or respond to a challenge to an
area that initially is deemed ineligible for MF-II support must be no
more than one-half of one kilometer apart from one another. The Bureaus
also decided to assess challenges using a uniform grid with cells of
one square kilometer and a ``buffer'' with a radius equal to one-half
of the maximum distance parameter, i.e., one-quarter of one kilometer
(250 meters).
8. On March 21, 2018, RWA submitted data regarding the burden a
challenger would experience as a result of these decisions. On March
29, 2018, RWA filed an application for review in which it argued that
the speed test buffer radius size should have been set at one-quarter
mile and that the size of the uniform grid cells should have been one
square mile. One party--Verizon--opposed RWA's application for review
and argued that the grid cell size and the buffer radius should not be
increased.
9. On April 30, 2018, RWA filed an ex parte letter indicating that
increasing the speed test buffer to 400 meters (approximately one-
quarter mile) and maintaining a grid cell size of one square kilometer
would yield largely similar results to increasing the grid cell size to
one square mile and the buffer size to one-quarter mile. On April 30,
2018, the Bureaus, on their own motion, adopted an order on
reconsideration that increased the buffer size to 400 meters. AT&T, the
Competitive Carriers Association (CCA), and U.S. Cellular filed replies
to Verizon's opposition to RWA's AFR, in which they supported the
Bureaus' decision to implement a 400-meter buffer radius. On the issue
of the grid cell size, AT&T argued that the grid cells should not be
resized. CCA and U.S. Cellular argued that the grid cells should be
resized.
10. On June 21, 2018, Verizon filed an application for review of
the Bureaus' order on reconsideration in which it sought reinstatement
of the 250-meter buffer radius. NTCA, Smith Bagley, RWA, and Panhandle
Telecommunication opposed Verizon's application for review and argued
that the 400-meter buffer should be maintained. CCA filed a reply to
the oppositions supporting the 400-meter buffer radius, and Verizon
filed a reply to the oppositions restating its support for a 250-meter
buffer radius.
11. RWA's application for review seeks review of the Bureaus'
procedures adopted in the MF-II Challenge Process Procedures Public
Notice establishing a one kilometer grid cell size and a one-quarter
kilometer ``buffer'' for assessing challenges to areas deemed
ineligible for MF-II support. RWA advocates instead for a one square
mile grid size and a one-quarter mile buffer. It argues that roads in
certain areas of rural America have been laid out on square mile grids
rather than square kilometer grids, which according to RWA means that
using a square kilometer grid would yield more grid cells that cannot
be fully tested by drive testing. RWA argues further that a 250-meter
buffer for each test point would require needlessly dense testing
points which would increase the cost and technical difficulty of
submitting challenges.
12. RWA's subsequent ex parte on April 30, 2018, included
additional information. In Alabama and the Oklahoma Panhandle, RWA
found that increasing the buffer to 400 meters, while maintaining the
one square kilometer grid cell size, would result in a significant
reduction of the percentage of cells for which a challenger could not
fully test by drive testing. Indeed, RWA found that changing the buffer
size would provide better results in Alabama than if both the buffer
and grid cell size were increased. In the area in Alabama that RWA
studied, the number of grid cells requiring some off-road testing
dropped by 26 percentage points when increasing the buffer to 400
meters, versus a decrease of 16 percentage points when increasing
buffer size to 400 meters and increasing the grid cell size to one
square mile.
13. In the Oklahoma Panhandle, RWA found that the results were
largely the same if the buffer size was increased, regardless of
whether the grid cell size was also increased. In both cases, RWA found
that the grid cells requiring some off-road testing would decrease by
nearly 40 percentage points, from 82.3 percent to either 44.7 percent
(buffer size alone) or 43.6 percent (buffer and grid cell size).
Summarizing its analysis, RWA stated that it ``recognizes the Bureaus'
desire to utilize a square kilometer grid cell scheme and believes that
the use of a one square kilometer grid cell and accompanying longer
buffer radius will give prospective challengers the ability to more
meaningfully participate in the MF-II challenge process.''
14. U.S. Cellular supports RWA's AFR. The company estimated that
the one-kilometer grid cell size in conjunction with the original 250-
meter buffer radius size would make mounting a challenge by drive-
testing alone impossible for as much as 78 percent of the areas
involved.
15. After considering the data RWA filed in its March 21, 2018 ex
parte submission, the Bureaus decided to expand the buffer surrounding
each test point from 250 meters to 400 meters (approximately equivalent
to one-quarter mile), explaining that the new data persuaded them that
the previous buffer size and resulting number of test points required
may be unduly burdensome to some challengers. The new evidence
illustrated both the considerable increase in area that could be
covered by drive-testing and the decrease in the number of speed test
measurements typically needed per grid cell resulting from using a
buffer radius of one-quarter of one mile rather than a radius of one-
quarter of one kilometer. These modified parameters decreased the
burden on challengers by reducing the number of speed test measurements
needed to file a successful challenge. Accordingly, because the Bureaus
have already effectively granted RWA's request regarding buffer size,
the Commission dismiss RWA's application for review on these grounds as
moot.
16. In contrast, RWA has not shown that changing the grid cell size
is warranted. The Commission finds that the expansion of the speed test
point buffer to 400 meters (as supported by numerous commenters) while
retaining the square kilometer grid cell size properly balances the
measurements needed for meaningful testing with the burdens placed on
challengers and
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challenged parties. This decision also furthers the Commission's goals
of moving expeditiously to conduct the MF-II auction and of
administrative efficiency. The Commission and the Bureaus have
carefully considered the burdens on entities that choose to submit
challenges and entities that choose to respond to challenges, the goals
of administrative efficiency, and the record evidence.
17. As Verizon and AT&T noted, to implement RWA's proposed resizing
of the grid, ``the Commission would have to reprocess the carrier
coverage maps using a one square mile grid, generate a new map of
presumptively eligible areas, and finally direct USAC to modify its
challenge process software to accept challenges based on one square
mile grid cells.'' AT&T argues that RWA's proposed reconfiguration of
the grid cells ``would be too disruptive'' and would ``significantly
delay the start'' of the MF-II auction. Similarly, Verizon argues that
``stopping the current challenge process and then starting over with a
one square mile grid would extend the challenge process--and delay the
start of the Mobility Fund auction--by many months.''
18. Moreover, as AT&T notes, the benefit sought by RWA--an increase
in the percentage of the area that can be drive tested--``can
effectively be addressed by modifying the buffer radius, as the Bureaus
recently did, on their own motion.'' As RWA admits in its various
submissions, the buffer size is the key parameter affecting the
percentage of cells that can be drive tested and the change made to the
buffer size, by itself, would provide similar results--in terms of the
increase in the percentage of cells that could be challenged by drive
testing--to changing both the buffer size and the grid cell size.
19. RWA, CCA, and U.S. Cellular argue that the one square kilometer
grid cell size prevents challenges in less accessible areas. The
Commission disagrees. Nothing in the challenge process framework
prevents challenges in less accessible areas or in areas that require
some off-road testing. As shown in RWA's own submissions, the buffer
radius is the key parameter affecting the percentage of area that can
be fully tested by drive testing, and increasing the grid cell size in
some areas increases the percentage of cells that require off road
testing in certain areas. Indeed, U.S. Cellular concedes that the
Bureau's increase of the buffer radius to 400 meters undermines its
argument that it cannot use drive testing for much of the MF-II
challenge process.
20. The Commission appropriately balanced the competing interests
of challengers and challenged parties in this proceeding with the need
to efficiently administer the challenge process. Roads do not match
perfectly with any uniform grid, regardless of the size of the grid
cell. The Commission decided to conduct an auction based upon land
area, not road miles, because of limited universal service funds on the
unserved areas where people live, work, and travel. No commenter sought
reconsideration of that decision. Similarly, the Commission decided to
not make special accommodations for less accessible areas, and no
commenter sought reconsideration of that decision. Any ineligible area
may be challenged, and it is incumbent upon challengers and challenged
parties to collect the required speed test points to substantiate or
rebut a challenge. Indeed, as of July 31, 2018, challengers had already
uploaded over 1.6 million speed tests, with a significant number of
those tests taken in primarily rural areas. Accordingly, the Commission
denies RWA's application for review on the grid cell size.
21. RWA submitted an extension request along with its application
for review, requesting that the challenge window be open for 150 days
after its application for review was addressed. The Commission granted
a 90-day extension of the challenge window, which will extend the
challenge window through November 26, 2018. This extension will mean
that the challenge window now provides 200 days after the Order on
Reconsideration for submitting challenges under parameters that largely
address RWA's concerns regarding the percentage of areas that could be
fully tested by drive testing. The Commission thus has already
effectively granted RWA's extension request insofar as it sought at
least 150 days for the challenge window after the modifications to the
challenge process that it sought were implemented.
22. RWA has not demonstrated that a further extension of the window
for filing challenges to areas deemed ineligible for MF-II support is
in the public interest. The window has been extended to now provide a
window of 200 days with parameters that largely address RWA's concerns,
thus providing 50 more days than RWA requested. Although parties may
disagree with the specific rules promulgated to achieve the purposes of
MF-II, the mere filing of an application for review does not alter the
effective date of those rules; a party is not entitled to an extension
of the challenge window on the hope that the Commission will act
favorably on its application for review. Moreover, the Bureaus have
already acted to make it easier to conduct speed tests. Thus, all
affected parties must comply with the rules and the requirements of the
challenge process, should they choose to participate in it, absent
Commission grant of a stay (which RWA did not request). RWA has not
cited any unanticipated circumstances that might explain its members'
need for an extension nor provided a reasonable justification for
granting it.
23. Moreover, granting a further extension as requested by RWA
would work at cross-purposes with the goals of the MF-II proceeding. In
the MF-II Report and Order, 82 FR 15422, March 28, 2017, the Commission
stated that the purpose of MF-II is ``to allocate up to $4.53 billion .
. . to advance the deployment of 4G LTE service to areas that are so
costly that the private sector has not yet deployed there and to
preserve such service where it might not otherwise exist.'' The
Commission also indicated that MF-II would redirect legacy subsidies
away from areas that are fully covered by unsubsidized 4G LTE service.
Further extension of the challenge window undermines the purpose of the
MF-II proceeding by delaying the conclusion of the challenge process,
the release of the final eligible areas map, the commencement of the
MF-II auction, and the refocusing of its limited universal service
funds to the primarily rural areas of the country that need the funds
the most. Under these circumstances, the Commission finds that the now
extended window will provide eligible parties with sufficient time to
prepare and submit any challenges they intend to file and that RWA has
failed to demonstrate that a further extension of the challenge window
would serve the public interest.
24. Accordingly, RWA's extension request is granted in part and is
otherwise denied.
25. Verizon's application for review requests that the Commission
vacate the Bureaus' decision to increase the maximum speed test
distance parameter from 500 meters to 800 meters and the associated
speed test buffer radius from 250 meters to 400 meters. The thrust of
Verizon's application for review is that the Bureaus have shifted the
balance of the MF-II challenge process too far in favor of challengers.
The outcome, Verizon argues, will be to ``allow challengers to
successfully challenge a one square kilometer area with as few as two
speed test points'' and will ``result in widespread false positives,
i.e., presumptively successful challenges of large areas that are in
fact well-served
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by 4G LTE, particularly if providers cherry-pick test points with an
aim of minimizing actual coverage.'' Several carriers and trade
associations filed oppositions to Verizon's arguments; no filers
supported the Verizon AFR. The Commission rejects Verizon's arguments,
agrees with the unanimous opposition to Verizon's AFR, and affirms the
decision of the Bureaus to expand the maximum distance between speed
tests to 800 meters and the buffer radius of speed tests to 400 meters.
26. Verizon argues that the increased speed test buffer radius
allows challengers to ``cherry-pick'' speed test data to challenge the
unsubsidized providers' coverage maps. The Commission disagrees. The
Bureaus did not modify the other numerous and rigorous challenge
process requirements in the MF-II Challenge Process Procedures Public
Notice. Challengers must submit not only speed test data demonstrating
throughput below 5 Mbps, but also data collected demonstrating speeds
equal to or greater than 5 Mbps. Thus, in grid cells well served by
existing 4G LTE, the data submitted to the challenge portal are likely
to reflect speed test results favoring incumbents. Moreover, contrary
to Verizon's argument, providing only two speed tests in a grid cell
with high quality 4G LTE service will likely not be sufficient to
successfully challenge the grid cell. Rather, the combined buffer areas
of sub-5 Mbps speed tests in or adjacent to challengeable grid cells
must cover 75 percent of the challengeable areas of all carriers in the
grid cell. Further, even where combined testing points do cover 75
percent of the challengeable areas in a grid cell, the resulting
presumptive challenge simply shifts the burden of production (though
not the burden of persuasion) to the challenged carrier to produce
evidence rebutting the presumption. A presumptive challenge does not
automatically result in any change to eligibility; final adjudications
of eligibility will occur after challenged parties have an opportunity
to respond to challenges.
27. Verizon also argues that increasing the speed test buffer
radius to 400 meters will increase the number of presumptively
successful challenges in areas already served by 4G LTE--which Verizon
terms ``false positives''--which will degrade the accuracy of the MF-II
eligibility map. The Commission disagrees. The risk of so-called
``false positives'' from a 400-meter buffer is adequately addressed by
the challenge process framework that the Commission adopted. While
increasing the buffer radius to 400 meters can make challenges more
feasible in areas where roads are less dense, it does not lead to the
conclusion that more challenges will cause the accuracy of the final
auction eligibility map to suffer. Verizon's argument appears to
conflate a presumptive challenge with the final disposition of a
challenge. Challenged carriers will have an opportunity to provide
evidence refuting a challenge in any challenged grid cell. And because
speed test points submitted by challenged parties are buffered by the
same distance as points submitted by challengers, increasing the buffer
radius increases the ability of challenged carriers to respond to
challenges.
28. The Bureaus' increase in the number of grid cells that may be
fully tested by drive testing does not alter the network performance
that is being tested, nor will it necessarily result in an increase in
the number of valid challenges. Indeed, as several entities have noted,
more opportunities for challengers to participate in the challenge
process should improve the accuracy of the final eligibility map,
insofar as it subjects more grid cells to confirmation testing. The
Commission likewise agree with NTCA and SBI that the potential risks
associated with increasing the buffer size for the challenge process to
400 meters--i.e., increased availability of challenges--are outweighed
by the benefits of ensuring, through a process that does not unduly
deter challenges, that all areas that lack unsubsidized 4G LTE mobile
service are designated eligible for the auction and have an opportunity
to compete for MF-II support.
29. The Commission also rejected Verizon's argument that the
Bureaus exceeded their authority by increasing the maximum speed test
distance parameter and buffer radius. In the MF-II Challenge Process
Order, the Commission directed the Bureaus to establish the challenge
process speed testing parameters. Specifically, the Commission directed
Bureaus to establish a maximum distance between tests of up to one mile
and to set a corresponding buffer around tests to balance the benefits
to the MF-II process, the burdens on small carriers, and an
administratively efficient adjudication of challenges regarding network
deployment. The Bureaus could consider any maximum speed test distance
parameter and buffer within the established one mile range, including
the 800-meter distance parameter (approximately one-half of one mile)
and corresponding 400-meter buffer radius selected. Thus, the Bureaus
were well within their authority to consider newly available record
evidence that supported their reconsideration of the maximum speed test
distance and buffer radius. In any event, this argument is moot since
the Commission has reviewed and upheld the Bureaus' decision.
30. Although Verizon argues that customer experience is likely to
vary over those distances due to signal attenuation, and terrain and
clutter variations, the Commission notes that the MF-II Challenge
Process Order did not call for speed tests that mirror every customer
experience within a speed tested area, but rather a reasonable balance
of administrative and private burdens and costs in a tested area. The
800-meter distance parameter and 400-meter buffer radius reflect such a
balance. The parameters selected by the Bureaus also has received
widespread support from other parties participating in this proceeding.
All four of the parties opposing Verizon's AFR, as well as a reply to
the oppositions, supported expanding the buffer radius and maximum
speed test distance. Similarly, in filings submitted in response to
RWA's AFR, AT&T, CCA, and U.S. Cellular all supported expanding the
buffer radius. The Commission further note that, while Verizon objects
to the Bureaus' reliance on RWA's evidence, it did not cite any other
record evidence, new or otherwise, that undermines the Bureaus'
decision.
31. For all these reasons, the Commission denies Verizon's
application for review.
IV. Ordering Clauses
32. Accordingly, it is ordered that pursuant to the authority
contained in sections 1, 4(i) and (j), 254, 303(r), and 332 of the
Communications Act of 1934, as amended, and section 706 of the
Telecommunications Act of 1996, 47 U.S.C. 151, 154(i), (j), 254,
303(r), 332, 1302, and sections 1.1, 1.115, 1.412, and 1.427 of the
Commission's rules, 47 CFR 1.1, 1.115, 1.412, 1.427, this Order and
Memorandum Opinion and Order is adopted.
33. It is further ordered that, pursuant to the authority contained
in sections 1, 4(i) and (j), 254, 303(r), and 332 of the Communications
Act of 1934, as amended, and section 706 of the Telecommunications Act
of 1996, 47 U.S.C. 151, 154(i), (j), 254, 303(r), 332, 1302, and
sections 1.1 and 1.412 of the Commission's rules, 47 CFR 1.1, 1.412,
the deadline for challengers to submit information in connection with
the MF-II challenge process is extended, to the extent described
herein.
34. It is further ordered that, pursuant to authority contained in
sections 4(i),
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254, 303(r), and 332 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, and
section 706 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, 47 U.S.C. 154(i),
254, 303(r), 332, 1302, and section 1.46 of the Commission's rules, 47
CFR 1.46, RWA's Request for Extension of Challenge Window is granted in
part, and is denied in part, to the extent described herein.
35. It is further ordered that, pursuant to section 5(c)(5) of the
Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. 155(c)(5), and
section 1.115(g) of the Commission's rules, 47 CFR 1.115(g), the
Application for Review filed by the Rural Wireless Association, Inc. on
March 29, 2018, is granted in part, dismissed as moot in part, and
denied in part to the extent described herein.
36. It is further ordered that, pursuant to section 5(c)(5) of the
Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C. 155(c)(5), and
section 1.115(g) of the Commission's rules, 47 CFR 1.115(g), the
Application for Review filed by Verizon Communications, Inc. on June
22, 2018, is denied.
37. It is further ordered that, pursuant to Sec. 1.427(b) of the
Commission's rules, 47 CFR 1.427(b), this Order shall be effective upon
its publication in the Federal Register.
Federal Communications Commission.
Marlene Dortch,
Secretary.
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