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DA 14-1041

Released: July 23, 2014

WEBINAR FOR FORM 477 FILERS ON THE NEW FILING INTERFACE
TO BE HELD AUGUST 6, 2014

WC Docket No. 11-10

The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau and Wireless Telecommunications Bureau will hold a webinar for the filers of FCC Form 477, Local Telephone Competition and Broadband Reporting, on how to use the new filing interface. The webinar will be held at FCC Headquarters, 445 12th Street, SW, Washington, DC on Wednesday, August 6, 2014 from 2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. EDT in the Commission Meeting Room. The public can attend the webinar in person or view it over the Internet via live streaming at fcc.gov/live. Those watching online will have the opportunity to email questions to the FCC staff during the event and have the answers broadcast to all participants. For more information on the webinar, please contact Suzanne Mendez at or (202) 418-0941.

Reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities are available upon request. The request should include a detailed description of the accommodation needed and contact information. Please provide as much advance notice as possible; last minute requests will be accepted, but may be impossible to fill. Send an e-mail r call the Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau at (202) 418-0530 (voice), (202) 418-0432 (TTY).

The new Form 477 filing interface will begin accepting filings of data as of June 30, 2014 on July 31, 2014. These filings are due October 1, 2014.[1] Interested parties can learn more about the updated Form 477 at and For additional information on this proceeding, contact Chelsea Fallon or Ken Lynch of the Industry Analysis and Technology Division, Wireline Competition Bureau, (202) 418-0940, (202) 418-0484 (TTY).

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[1]New Form 477 Filing Interface Will Begin Accepting Data as of June 30, 2014 on July 31, 2014; Deadline to Submit Data is October 1, 2014, WC Docket No. 11-10, Public Notice, DA 14-801 (Wireline Comp. Bur. rel. June 11, 2014). The modifications to the Form 477 data collection became effective on June 26, 2014. The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approved the modifications to Form 477 in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 on June 4, 2014. On June 26, 2014, the FCC published a notice in the Federal Register (79 FR 36231) announcing that the FCC had received OMB approval on June 4, 2014 for the modifications to the information collection requirements pertaining to FCC Form 477 (OMB Control No. 3060-0816). That Federal Register notice also stated that these information collection requirements would become effective on June 26, 2014.

[2] Some of the links on this page and related Form 477 pages are currently inactive but will be updated prior to the launch of the new filing interface on July 31, 2014.