Federal Register Notice of Rulemaking on Calling Cards
The Commission has published Federal Register notice of Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ("NPRM") FCC 05-41. The Order section of that release denied AT&T's May 15, 2003 petition requesting a declaratory ruling that intrastate access charges do not apply to calls made using its "enhanced" prepaid calling cards when the calling card platform is located outside the state in which either the calling or the called party is located.
On November 22, 2004, AT&T requested a similar ruling that two new variants to its "enhanced" calling card offering are information services and jurisdictionally interstate. The Commission noted that those changes to AT&T's calling card services may be significant for purposes of regulatory classification and jurisdiction. Rather than try to address each possible type of calling card offering through a declaratory ruling, the Commission initiated a NPRM to consider the classification and jurisdiction of new forms of prepaid calling cards comprehensively rather than in a piecemeal manner. Comments are due by April 15, 2005 and replies by May 16, 2005.
