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                                                            Before the
                FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
                    Washington, D. C.  20554


                                 In the Matter of     )
                                        )    
Implementation of the Subscriber Carrier          )
Selection Changes Provisions of the          )
Telecommunications Act of 1996        )
                                      ) CC Docket No. 94-129
Policies and Rules Concerning        )
Unauthorized Changes of Consumers      )
Long Distance Carriers                )

                              ORDER

Adopted: December 21, 2000                        Released: December 22, 2000

     By the Chief, Accounting Policy Division, Common Carrier Bureau:
                                      
1.      In this Order, we address the requirement, adopted in the Third Report and Order and
Second Order on Reconsideration (Third Report and Order), that carriers submit initial slamming
complaint reports on February 15, 2001 for calendar year 2000.  Compliance with this filing
deadline is not required because the Third Report and Order has not yet taken effect.  

2.      In the Third Report and Order, the Commission determined that telecommunications
carriers should periodically report to the Commission certain information about slamming
complaints they have received.  The Commission concluded that this information will enable it to
identify carriers that repeatedly initiate unauthorized changes.  Accordingly, the Commission
directed each carrier to submit a reporting form identifying, among other things, the number of
slamming complaints received and the number of such complaints that the carrier has investigated
and found to be valid.  Reporting was to commence on February 15, 2001 for calendar year
2000, and was to continue on a biannual basis thereafter on August 15 (covering January 1
through May 31) and on February 15 (covering June 1 through December 31).  

3.      In the Third Report and Order, the Commission recognized that some carriers might
not have gathered the requisite information for calendar year 2000 because they would not have
been required to do so prior to the adoption of that order.  The Commission therefore directed
carriers to begin tracking the information once the Third Report and Order had taken effect. 
Accordingly, for purposes of complying with the reporting requirement for calendar year 2000,
carriers were to submit reports containing information gathered between the effective date of this
requirement, as announced in the Federal Register, and December 31, 2000.

4.      Because the Third Report and Order is not yet effective, carriers are not yet under a
legal obligation to collect information on slamming complaints.  Therefore, submission of initial
slamming complaint reports on February 15, 2001 for calendar year 2000 is no longer required.
We emphasize that this determination applies only to the slamming complaint reports that were
due to be filed on February 15, 2001 for calendar year 2000.  Upon the effective date of the order,
carriers must comply with the reporting requirement, as set forth in section 64.1180 of our rules,
for calendar year 2001 and every year thereafter.  

5.      Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that, pursuant to the authority contained in sections 1,
4, 201-205, and 258 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, 47 U.S.C.  151, 154,
201-205, and 258, this Order IS ADOPTED.

6.      IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that this Order is effective upon release.

                    FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION


                         Katherine L. Schroder
                         Chief, Accounting Policy Division
                    Common Carrier Bureau