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Wireline Competition Bureau Seeks To Refresh Record on Telephone Access Charges
The Federal Communications Commission published this proposed rule in the Federal Register on July 7, 2025. Comments closed on August 6, 2025.
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What the agency says
In this document, the Wireline Competition Bureau (Bureau) invites interested parties to update the record on issues in the Telephone Access Charges proceeding regarding various end-user charges associated with interstate access service offered by incumbent local exchange (LEC) carriers. These charges, called Telephone Access Charges for short, include: the Subscriber Line Charge, the Access Recovery Charge, the Presubscribed Interexchange Carrier Charge, the Line Port Charge, and the Special Access Surcharge.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2025-12583
- Type
- Proposed rule
- Action
- Proposed rule
- Agency
- Federal Communications Commission
- Published
- July 7, 2025
- Comments due
- August 6, 2025
- Dates
- Comments are due on or before August 6, 2025. Reply comments are due on or before August 21, 2025.
- Docket
- WCB: WC Docket No. 20-71; DA 25-508; FR ID 299746
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 47 CFR 51; 47 CFR 54; 47 CFR 61; 47 CFR 69
- Pages
- 2
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