TECHNOLOGY TRANSITIONS UPDATE: SERVICE-BASED EXPERIMENTS

June 13, 2014

Data Collection and Analysis

• FCC procurement will select 3rd-party expert

• Will assist in, inter alia

– developing methodology

– data collection

– data analysis

• Scalable to other experiments and contexts

AT&T Proposal – Trial Wire Centers

Proposed Retail Replacements

U-verse

• Voice (VoIP)

• High-Speed Internet

Wireless Home Phone

• Voice

• 4G LTE Broadband

Other • 4% in Carbon

Hill TBD

POTS

AT&T’s Announced Plans: Nationwide

AT&T’s Trial Proposal: Kings Point

AT&T’s Trial Proposal: Carbon Hill

Points to be Developed for Retail Trial

• Wireless Home Phone

– Analog data features

– ALI for E911

– TTY accessibility & compatibility

– Price and data allowances

• Wireless Business product

• GETS capability for interconnected VoIP; WPS

• Replacements for 4% of Carbon Hill living units

Possible AT&T Wholesale Trial

• State of the record

– During initial phases, AT&T commits to maintain wholesale access.

– AT&T intends to seek permission in future for wholesale trial

– Focal point for many commenters

“We further expect that any proposal of an ongoing [wholesale] experiment would . . . offer to replace wholesale inputs with services that offer substantially similar wholesale access to the applicant’s network.”

- Tech Transitions Order at ¶ 59

Status of Proposal: “Phase 0”

0

• Started on Feb. 27, 2014; Initial outreach, planning

• No impact on customers’ options

1

• Grandfathering of existing retail accounts

• Preceded by Section 214(a) applications and public process

2

• Sunsetting of existing retail accounts

• Preceded by Section 214(a) applications and public process

Other Activities

Rural Experiments

Numbering Testbed

Consumer Data Initiative

Public Safety Tech Transitions

Workshop

Targeted Research for persons w/ disabilities

Rural Broadband Workshop

IP-based Relay Services

Workshop