APPENDIX A PARTIES FILING INITIAL AND REPLY COMMENTS, CC DOCKET NO. 97-21 Initial Comments CommenterAbbreviation American Library AssociationALA Ameritech AT&T Corp.AT&T Bell Atlantic and NYNEXBA and NYNEX MCI National Cable Television AssociationNCTA National Exchange Carrier Association, Inc.NECA Pacific Telesis GroupPacTel Personal Communications Industry AssociationPCIA Rural Telephone Coalition and Unites States Telephone CoalitionRTC and USTA Southwestern Bell Telephone CompanySWBT Sprint CorporationSprint U S West, Inc.U S WEST Worldcom, Inc.WorldCom Reply comments CommenterAbbreviation AT&T Corp.AT&T BellSouth Corp.BellSouth GTE Service Corp.GTE MCI National Exchange Carrier Association, Inc.NECA Personal Communications Industry AssociationPCIA Rural Telephone Coalition and Unites States Telephone CoalitionRTC and USTA Southwestern Bell Telephone CompanySWBT PARTIES FILING INITIAL AND REPLY COMMENTS, CC DOCKET NO. 96-45 Initial comments CommenterAbbreviation Association of American Medical CollegesAAMC Ad Hoc Telecommunications Users Committee Ad Hoc Aerial Communications, Inc. Aerial American Federation of TeachersAFT American Hospital Association AHA AirTouch Communications, Inc. AirTouch AirTouch Communications, Inc. -- ErrataAirTouch American Library AssociationALA Alabama Department of Public Health, Public Health Area III Alabama Department of Public Health Alabama Public Service CommissionA labama PSC Alaska Public Utilities CommissionAlaska PUC Alliance for Public Technology Alliance for Community Media Alliance for Distance Education in CaliforniaAlliance for Distance Education ALLTEL Telephone Services CorporationALLTEL Alpena General Hospital Association for Local Telecommunications ServicesALTS American Telemedicine AssociationAmerican Telemedicine Ameritech AMSC Subsidiary Corp.AMSC America OnlineAOL American Personal CommunicationsAPC American Public Health AssociationAPHA American Public Power Association APPA Apple Computer, Inc.Apple Association of America's Public Television Stations and Public Broadcasting ServiceAPTS/PBS Alaska Telephone Association -- Ex-ParteATA Arch Communications Group, Inc.Arch Archdiocese of New York US Public Policy Office for the Association for Computing MachineryAss'n for Computing Association of State and Territorial Health OfficialsASTHO AT&T Corp.AT&T Bell Atlantic -NYNEX MobileBANM Association of the Bar of New York Administrative Law CommitteeBar of New York Bell Atlantic BellSouth Corporation and Telecommunications, Inc.BellSouth Benton Foundation & the Center for Strategic CommunicationsBenton Broadband PCS Alliance of PCIABroadband PCS Alliance Brooklyn Public Library Business Software Alliance California Department of Consumer Affairs State of California and the California Public Utilities CommissionCalifornia PUC California Small Business AssociationCalifornia SBA Cathey, Hutton and Associates Cathey, Hutton US Catholic ConferenceCatholic Conference National Coalition for the Homeless, Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, American Women's Roundtable, Center for Media Education, Consumer Action, Fifth Street Connection, Heartland Alliance for Human Needs and Human Rights, Interstate Migrant Educators, Marcia Zashin, Education Consultant to Cleveland Public Schools and Project Act, Migrant Legal Action Program, Council for Education Development and Research CEDR Celpage, IncCelpage Cincinnati Bell Telephone Co.Cincinnati Bell Citizens Utilities CompanyCitizens Utilities Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana IslandsCNMI Colorado Library, Education & Healthcare Telecommunications CoalitionColorado LEHTC Commercial Internet Exchange AssociationCommercial Internet Exchange American Association of Community CollegesCommunity Colleges Competitive Telecommunications Association CompTel Comsat CorporationComsat Cox Communications, Inc.Cox Competition Policy InstituteCPI Citizens for a Sound Economy FoundationCSE Foundation Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association CTIA Cylink CorporationCylink Office of the People's Counsel for the District of ColumbiaDC OPC Public Service Commission of the District of Columbia DC PSC Delaware Public Service CommissionDelaware PSC Dickinson Public Schools DIRECTV, Inc. and Hughes Communications Galaxy, Inc.DIRECTV Eastern Montana Telemedicine Network Edgemont Neighborhood CoalitionEdgemont Educations and Library Networks CoalitionEDLINC American Association of Educational Service AgenciesEducational Service Agencies Electronic Communications for Rural Health Depts. Evans Telephone Co.Evans Tel. Co. Humboldt Telephone Co., Kerman telephone Co., Oregon-Idaho Utilities Inc., Pinnacles Telephone Co., The Ponderosa Telephone Co., The Siskiyou Telephone Co., The Volcano Telephone Co., Excel Telecommunications, Inc.EXCEL Florida Department of Management Services Florida Public Service CommissionFlorida PSC Florida Public Service Commission -- Ex-ParteFlorida PSC Ford County Health Department Fred Williamson & Associates, Inc.Fred Williamson Frontier Telemedicine Frontier Corp.Frontier General Communications, Inc.GCI GE American Communications, Inc.GE Americom Consumers' Utility Counsel Division, Georgia Governors' OfficeGeorgia Consumer's Counsel Georgia Department of Administrative Services Governor of Guam Grant County Health Department Gray County Health Department Council of the Great City SchoolsGreat City Schools General Services Administration GSA GTE Guam Telephone Authority Guam Tel. Authority GVNW, Inc./ManagementGVNW Harris, Skrivan AssociatesHarris Harvey County Health Department U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesHHS High Plains Rural Health NetworkHigh Plains RHN ICORE, Inc.ICORE Illinois State Board of EducationIllinois Board of Education Illinois Commerce CommissionIllinois CC Illinois Department of Public HealthIllinois DPH Illinois State Library Integrated Media Conferencing Network Interactive Services AssociationInteractive Services Ass'n Iowa Utilities Board iSCAN, L.P.iSCAN Information Technology Association of AmericaITAA ITCs, Inc.ITC Information Technology Industry CouncilITI IXC Communications, Inc.IXC Communications John Staurulakis, Inc.John Staurulakis Juno Online Services, L.P.Juno Online Kansas Corporation CommissionKansas CC Kansas Hospital Association Kentucky Public Service CommissionKentucky PSC Keystone Communications CorporationKeystone Communications Kit Carson County Memorial Hospital LCI International Telecom Corp.LCI Lower Colorado River AuthorityLCRA Livingston County Public Health Department Marquette County Health Department Maryland Public Service CommissionMaryland PSC Massachusetts Department of EducationMassachusetts DOE Massachusetts Board of Library CommissionersMassLibrary Maury Regional Hospital Teleradiology and Hospital Software IntegrationMaury Regional Hospital MCI Jennie M. Melham Memorial Medical Center, Inc.Melham Medical Center Metricom, Inc.Metricom MFS Communications Company, Inc.MFS Mid-Nebraska Telemedicine Network Minnesota Independent CoalitionMinnesota Indep. Coalition Mississippi State Department of HealthMississippi Dept. of Health Mississippi Council for Education Technnology & Mississippi Library CommissionMississippi Missouri Public Service CommissionMissouri PSC Mitchell County Health Dept. Mountaineer Doctor TeleVisionMountaineer Doctor TV National Association of County & City Health OfficialsNACCHO National Association of the Deaf NAD National Association of State Telecom. DirectorsNASTD National Association of State Utility Consumer AdvocatesNASUCA National Black Caucus of State LegislatorsNat'l Black Caucus National Urban Coalition US National Commission on Libraries & Information ScienceNCLIS National Cable Television AssociationNCTA Nebraska Association of Hospitals & Health SystemsNebraska Hospitals Nebraska Telemedicine National Emergency Number AssociationNENA National Urban Coalition NetAction Utility Consumer Action Network Community Technology Centers' Network CHALK Netscape Communications CorporationNetscape New Jersey Division of Ratepayer AdvocateNew Jersey Advocate New York State Department of EducationNew York DOE New York State Department of Public ServiceNew York DPS New York Public Library Nextel Communications, Inc.Nextel Northern TelecommunicationsNorTel North Dakota Department of HealthNorth Dakota DOH North Dakota Public Service CommissionNorth Dakota PSC North Dakota State Library North Dakota Telehealth Service Providers Northern Tier Norton County Health Department NRPT CommunicationsNRPT National Telecommunications and Information AdministrationNTIA American College of Nurse PractitionersNurse Practitioners NynexNYNEX Ohio Department of Education Ohio DOE Public Utilities Commission of OhioOhio PUC Oracle CorporationOracle Oregon Public Education Network Oregon Public Utility CommissionOregon PUC Orion Atlantic Osage County Health Department Osborne County Health Department Owen J. Roberts School District PACE Telecommunications ConsortiumPACE Pacific Telesis GroupPacTel PageMart, Inc.PageMart Paging Network, Inc.PageNet PanAmSat CorporationPanAmSat Panhandle Health District I Personal Communications Industry AssociationPCIA Personal Communications Industry Association -- ErrataPCIA Pennsylvania Library AssociationPennsylvania Library Ass'n People for the American WayPeople For Media Access Project, Alliance for Communitions Democracy, Alliance for Community Media, Benton Foundation, Center for Media Education, League of United Latin American Systems, Minority Media and Telecommunications Council, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, National Council of LaRaza, National Urban League, Rainbow Coalition Phillips County Health Department Plains Health Telemedicine NetworkPlains Health Telemedicine Paging and Narrowband PCS Alliance of the PCIAPNPA Pottawatomie County Health Department Public Advocates, Inc.Public Advocates Puerto Rico Telephone CompanyPuerto Rico Tel. Co. Rural Emergency Medical Education ConsortiumREMEC Richard Roth Robert L . Lock, Jr. Roseville Telephone CompanyRoseville Tel. Co. RT Communications, Inc.RT Rural Telephone CoalitionRTC Rural Alliance National Rural Electric Cooperative AssociationRural Electric Coop. Rural Wisconsin Health Cooperative Rural Utilities ServiceRUS Russell County Health Department Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the US Small Business AdministrationSBA Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the US Small Business Administration -- ERRATASBA SBC Communications, Inc.SBC Seattle Department of Administrative ServicesSeattle Sheridan County Public Health DepartmentSheridan County PHD Silver Star Telephone Company Silver Star Tel. Co. Southern New England Telephone Co. SNET South Carolina Department of Education and Budget & Control BoardSouth Carolina Southern Adirondak Library System Southern Illinois Healthcare Sprint Spectrum L.P. Sprint PCS Sprint CorporationSprint Saint Alexius Medical CenterSt. Alexius Stanton County Health Department TCA, Inc.-Telecommunications ConsultantsTCA Tele-Communications, Inc.TCI TDS Telecommunications and Century TelephoneTDS Telecom TDS Telecommunications and Century Telephone -- ErrataTDS Telecom Telco Communications Group, Inc.Telco Teleport Communications Group, Inc.Teleport Public Utility Commission of TexasTexas PUC Time Warner Communications Holdings, Inc.Time Warner Telecommunications Resellers AssociationTRA Tularosa Basin TelephoneTularosa Basin Tel. Utility Reform NetworkTURN U S West, Inc.U S WEST United Cerebral Palsy AssociationUnited Cerebral Palsy Ass'n Office of Communication of the United Church of ChristUnited Church of Christ United Health Services United Utilities, Inc.United Utilities Universal Service Alliance University of Cincinnati Medical Center Academic Information Technology and LibrariesUniv. of Cin. Medical Center University of Kansas School of NursingUniv. of Kansas School of Nursing University of MinnesotaUniv. of Minnesota University of Nebraska Medical CenterUniv. of Nebraska Med. Ctr. University of Nevada School of Medicine National Urban League, Inc.Urban League United States Telephone AssociationUSTA Utah Public Service CommissionUtah PSC UTC, the Telecommunications AssociationUTC Vanguard Cellular Systems, Inc.Vanguard Vermont Public Service BoardVermont PSB Virginia's Rural Telephone Co'sVirginia's Rural Washington State Enhanced 911 ProgramWashington 911 Washington State LibraryWashington Library Washington State Rural Development CouncilWashington RDC Washington State Superintendant of Public InstructionWashington SPI Washington Utilities and Transportation CommissionWashington UTC Waubonsee Community College West Virginia Consumer Advocate Western Alliance WinStar Communications, Inc.WinStar WorldCom, Inc.WorldCom Wyoming Medical CenterWyoming Telemedicine Proj. Wyoming Public Service CommissionWPSC Reply comments CommenterAbbreviation Acadia-St. Landry Hospital America's Carriers Telecommunications Ass'nACTA Ad Hoc Telecommunications Users Committee Ad Hoc American Federation of Teachers AFT American Hospital Ass'n AHA AirTouch Communications, Inc. AirTouch American Library Association ALA Alaska Telemedicine Project Aliant Communications Co. Aliant ALLTEL Telephone Services Corporation ALLTEL Association for Local Telecommunications Services ALTS American Medical Informatics Association Ameritech America Online AOL American Personal Communications APC American Public Power Ass'n APPA Apple Computer, Inc. Apple Arch Communications Group, Inc. Arch Arizona Telemedicine Program Link Arizona Telemedicine Arkadelphia Baptist Medical Center Arlington Municipal Hospital TeleMedicine Arlington Municipal Hospital AT&T Corp. AT&T Atlanta Board of Education Bell Atlantic and NYNEX BANX Bassett Healthcare Telemedicine Network Bassett Healthcare BellSouth Corporation and Telecommunications, Inc. BellSouth Benton Foundation & the Center for Strategic CommunicationsBenton Business Software Alliance California Department of Consumer Affairs California and the Public Utilities CommissionCalifornia PUC California Small Business AssociationCalifornia SBA Celpage, Inc.Celpage Centennial Cellular Corp.Centennial Charles S. Robb City of ChicagoChicago Citizens Utilities CompanyCitizens Utilities Resident Representative from CNMI to US CNMI Representative Northern Mariana IslandsCNMI Colorado Library, Education & Healthcare Telecommunications CoalitionColorado LEHTC Colorado Public Utilities CommissionColorado PUC Colorado TelehealthColorado Telehealth Commercial Internet Exchange AssociationCommercial Internet Exchange Commercial Internet Exchange Association -- ERRATACommercial Internet Exchange American Association of Community CollegesCommunity Colleges Conejos County Hospital Consumer Action NetworkConsumer Action Cox Communications, Inc.Cox Competition Policy InstituteCPI Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association CTIA Communications Workers of AmericaCWA Dakota Telemedicine Systems Decatur County Hospital Healthnet WorksDecatur County Hospital Eastern Montana TeleMedicine NetworkEastern Montana TeleMedicine Educations and Library Networks CoalitionEDLINC Evans Telephone Co.Evans Tel. Co. Humboldt Telephone Co., Kerman telephone Co., Oregon-Idaho Utilities, Inc. Pinnacles Telephone Co., The Ponderosa Telephone Co., Siskiyou Telephone Co., The Volcano Telephone Co. Florida Public Service CommissionFlorida PSC Fort Frye Local School District General Communications, Inc.GCI GE American Communications, Inc.GE Americom Georgia Public Service CommissionGeorgia PSC General Instrument CorporationGI Council of the Great City SchoolsGreat City Schools General Services Administration GSA GTEGTE High Plains Rural Health NetworkHigh Plains RHN U.S. Department of the InteriorInterior ITCs, Inc. -- ERRATAITC ITCs, Inc.ITC IXC Communications, Inc.IXC Communications University of Kentucky College of MedicineKentucky TeleCare KMC Telecom, Inc.KMC KU Medical CenterKU Medical Center La Crosse Lutheran Hospital LBJ Tropical Medical Center Low Country General Hospital Lufkin-Conroe Telephone Exchange, Inc.Lufkin-Conroe The State of Maine Public Utilities CommissionMaine PUC The State of Montana Public Service Commission, The State of Nebraska Public Service Commission, The State of New Hampshire Public Utilities Commission, The State of New Mexico State Corporation Commission, The State of Utah Publice Service Commission, The State of Vermont Department of Public Service and Public Service Board, Public Service Commission of West Virginia Upper Peninsula Telemedicine NetworkMarquette General Hospital Maryland PSC MCIMCI MFS Communications Company, Inc.MFS Building an Integrated Patient Information SystemMid-Michigan Medical Center Montana REACH Motorola, Inc.Motorola National Cable Television Ass'nNCTA Netscape Communications CorporationNetscape New York State Department of Public ServiceNew York DPS Friends of the National Library of MedicineNLM North Idaho Community Education and Health Information NetworkNorth Idaho CEHIN North Mississippi Health Services North Tonawanda City School District Board of EducationNorth Tonawanda School Dist. National Telecommunications and Information AdministrationNTIA Public Utilities Commission of OhioOhio PUC Orion Atlantic Pacific Telesis GroupPacTel PageMart, Inc.PageMart Paging Network, Inc.PageNet Personal Communications Industry AssociationPCIA Puerto Rico Telephone CompanyPuerto Rico Tel. Co. Rock Hill Telephone Co.Rock Hill Tel. Co. Rural Telephone CoalitionRTC National Rural Telecom Association National Telephone Cooperative Association Organization for the Promotion and Advancement of Small Telecommuniations Companies Rural Alabama Health Alliance Distance Learning/ Medical Link GrantRural Alabama Health Alliance National Rural Health AssociationRural Health Ass'n Rural Utilities ServiceRUS Acadia-St. Landry Hospital, Arizona Telemedicine Program Link,Arizona Telemedicine Arkadelphia Baptist Medical Center, Arlington Municipal Hospital TeleMedicine,Arlington Municipal Hospital Bassett Healthcare Telemedicine Network,Bassett Healthcare Colorado Telehealth, Conejos County Hospital, Dakota Telemedicine Systems, Decatur County Hospital Healthnet Works,Decatur County Hospital Eastern Montana TeleMedicine Network,Eastern Montana Telemedicine High Plains Rural Health Network, KU Medical Center, University of Kentucky College of Medicine,Kentucky Telecare LBJ Tropical Medical Center, La Crosse Lutheran Hospital, Low Country General Hospital, Upper Peninsula Telemedicine Network,Marquette General Hospital Building an Integrated Patient Information System,Mid-Michigan Medical Center Montana REACH, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, NTIA North Idaho Community Education & Health Network,North Idaho CEHIN North Mississippi Health Services, Rural Alabama Health Alliance Distance Learning,Rural Alabama HealthAlliance National Rural Health Association,Rural Health Ass'n Northeast Louisiana Health Network Teleradiology Link,St. Francis Medical Center Twin Lakes Regional Medical Center, University of Arkansas Rural MedLink,University of Arkansas Rural Pennsylvania Telemedicine Network,Univ. Pittsburgh Med Ctr Telemedicine for Rural South CarolinaUniv. of SC School of Med U.S. Small Business AdministrationSBA SBC Communications, Inc.SBC Scott & White Small Cable Business Association (Reg. Flex)Small Cable II Small Cable Business AssociationSmall Cable Sprint Spectrum L.P. Sprint PCS Sprint CorporationSprint Northeast Louisiana Health Network Teleradiology LinkSt. Francis Medical Center TDS Telecommunications and Century TelephoneTDS Telecom Telco Communications Group, Inc.Telco Teleport Communications Group, Inc.Teleport Time Warner Communications Holdings, Inc.Time Warner Telecommunications Resellers AssociationTRA Twin Lakes Regional Medical Center U S West, Inc.U S WEST Universal Service AllianceUniv. Service Alliance University of Arkansas Rural MedLinkUniv. of Arkansas University of Kentucky Center for Rural Health Rural Pennsylvania Telemedicine NetworkUniv. of Pittsburgh Medical Center Telemedicine for Rural South CarolinaUniv. of S. Carolina School of Med. United States Telephone Ass'nUSTA UTC, the Telecommunications Ass'nUTC Vanderbilt UniversityVanderbilt Vanguard Cellular Systems, Inc.Vanguard WorldCom, Inc.WorldCom