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Report No.     CC- 97-21                               May 2, 1997

        COMMISSION ADJUSTS ITS ANNUAL REVENUE THRESHOLD 
               TO ACCOUNT FOR INFLATION FOR 1996 
                      IN ACCORDANCE WITH 
          SECTION 402 OF THE 1996 TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT
     Pursuant to Section 402(c) of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and the interim
procedures established in Implementation of the Telecommunications Act of 1996: Reform of
Filing Requirements and Carrier Classifications, Order and Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, CC
Docket No. 96-193, 11 FCC Rcd 11716 (1996), the Commission hereby adjusts the annual
revenue threshold pursuant to part 32 of its regulations (47 C.F.R. part 43) and section 64.903 of
its regulations (47 C.F.R. 64.903) to account for inflation for 1996 by creating a ratio between
the 1996 Gross Domestic Product Chain-type Price Index (GDP-CPI) and the GDP-CPI as of
October 19, 1992.

     The estimated value of the GDP-CPI on October 19, 1992 is 100.69.  This estimate was
obtained by linearly interpolating the seasonally adjusted third quarter 1992 GDP-CPI value of
100.2 (as of the mid-point of the third quarter, August 15, 1992) and the seasonally adjusted
fourth quarter 1992 GDP-CPI value of 100.9 (as of the mid-point of the fourth quarter,
November 15, 1992).

     Accordingly, the inflation-adjusted revenue threshold for 1996 is calculated as follows:  

[A]       GDP-CPI (October 19, 1992)         100.69

[B]       GDP-CPI (Annual) (1996)            109.9

[C]       Ratio:    GDP-CPI (Annual) (1996) 
               GDP-CPI (October 19, 1992)    1.0915

[D]       Original Revenue Threshold              $100 million

[E]       Inflation-Adjusted Threshold       $109 million

Accordingly, the inflation-adjusted revenue threshold for 1996 is $109 million.

     For further information, contact Maureen Peratino, Office of Public Affairs, at (202)
418-0500, or Warren Firschein, Accounting and Audits Division, Common Carrier Bureau, at
(202) 418-0844. 













Source:  National Data Tables, Survey of Current Business, Mar. 1997, tbl. 7.1 at D-17.

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