Docket 78-72 was initiated by the FCC in summer of 1978 as an inquiry regarding message toll service (MTS) and wide area toll service (WATS) market structure. ENFIA interim settlements of 1978 and later ones were dependent on pending resolution of similar issues being considered in Docket 78-72.

FCC fourth supplemental notice of inquiry and proposed rulemaking calling for comments on four alternative plans for access charges for interexchange services released June 4, 1982; MCI comments on the notice, with drafts and preparatory material; letter to FCC Chairman Mark S. Fowler from members of the Telecommunications Subcommittee of the Congress regarding telephone rates in rural areas; McGowan's letter to Fowler in connection with Congressmen letter; Cox's statement at the hearing in the docket on November 29, 1982; MCI brief for petitioner in the case of U.S. Court of Appeals, where MCI sought review of FCC third report and order and decision on reconsideration of third report and order in Docket 78-72 Phase I.

Supplemental comments by MCI on exchange access charges requesting urgent evidentiary hearing.

Comments on petitions for further reconsideration by Department of Justice and by NTIA accompanied by the letter of Secretary of Commerce Nicholas Baldridge to FCC Chairman Mark Fowler; NTIA reply to oppositions to petitions for further reconsideration; Antitrust Division of U.S. Department of Justice letter to Administrative Law Judge of California Public Utilities Commission Patrick J. Power regarding equal access arrangements for all intra-LATA carriers, with supporting material.

MCI petition for reconsideration of FCC third report and order released on February 28, 1983, with preparatory material, April 11, 1983; abstracts of other parties' petitions for reconsideration prepared for MCI.

MCI opposition to several of petitions for reconsideration and/or clarification of third report and order; GTE letter to FCC Chairman Mark Fowler on proposed modification of third report and order access charge plan.

Second draft of MCI reply to certain of the oppositions to petitions for reconsideration of third report and order; summaries of major replies and oppositions to petitions for reconsideration.

Letters to be filed in Docket 78-72 arguing on fairness of rates for interstate connections OCCs were supposed to pay under third report and order arrangement: MCI to Common Carrier Bureau Chiefs Gary M. Epstein and Jack D. Smith, United States Transmission Systems to FCC Chairman Mark Fowler, AT&T to Jack D. Smith, Smith to FCC; FCC newsletter on modification of access charge plan.

MCI brief for petitioner in the consolidated U.S. Court of Appeals proceeding NARUC v. FCC - litigation connected to outcome of Docket no.78-72.

FCC memorandum opinion and order [MO&O] of August 22, 1983, in Phase I of docket 78-72 modifying the third report and order issued in response for petitions for reconsideration of its rules for computing access charges and distributing access charges revenue, annotated by Cox; erratum to MO&O; concurrent statement of Commissioner Mimi Weyforth Dawson.

MO&O of August 22, 1983; internal MCI memo with comments and drafts of MCI petition for reconsideration of MO&O of August 22.

Reports and paper clips on MCI stock drop down after FCC order of August 22, 1983 to reduce OCCs discounts for long-distance services; memo to Cox on conflict of interest rules violation in docket proceeding, with supporting material.

Federal Register Vol. 48 with FCC MO&O of August 22, 1983; excerpt from Commission's rules and regulations on access charges.

Letter to FCC Chairman Mark S. Fowler from eight other common carriers [OCCs] urging the Commission that implementation of its modified access charge plan would preclude OCCs from becoming meaningful competitors in the long distance telephone market; AT&T response to the letter filed with FCC; OCCs letter to Fowler in regards to AT&T letter; analysis of the impact of proposed access charge alternatives on MCI.

MCI petition for further reconsideration and modification of FCC MO&O of August 22, 1983; NTIA comments on petitions on further reconsideration.

Information on Bell System schedule for converting to equal access submitted by AT&T on request of Commissioner Dawson; K. Cox's letter to FCC regarding the misleading character of submitted information; Robert Jackson's letter to Commissioner Dawson on the same subject.

Senator Dole and other senators letter to FCC Chairman Mark Fowler in support of OCCs; FCC newsletter on delaying end user access charges for residential and single line business customers for further study; Cox's notes from FCC meeting on access charges; MCI letter to Fowler with comments on Senators letter; NTIA comments on Senators letter; FCC newsletters on decided issues of further reconsideration.

MCI report in response to the Court's January 27, 1984 order in consolidated review proceeding of NARUC et al. v. FCC et al., where MCI as a petitioner sought reconsideration of FCC ordered changes in rates scheduled for April 3, 1984.

MO&O released February 15, 1984, modifying reconsideration order of September 21, 1983.

AT&T emergency petition for reconsideration of the MO&Os of February 15, 1984 and of February 17, 1984, in Docket 83-1145 requesting to narrow OCCs discount; appendixes with financial and operating data submitted by AT&T by request of Common Carrier Bureau; MCI opposition to AT&T petition.

Material on petitions for emergency reconsideration of the orders of February 15, 1984 in Docket 78-72 and of February 17 in Docket 83-1145: FCC public notices, newsletters, supplemental comments to FCC of various local exchange carriers; summary of meetings in both dockets filed with FCC by Common Carrier Bureau; MCI comments in response to FCC public notice of March 30, 1984 on supplemental comments of local exchange carriers.

Notice of proposed revision of the uniform system of accounts and financial reporting requirements for telephone companies (USOA) issued by FCC in July 1978 recognized the necessity of changing the system adopted in 1935. The first supplemental notice, August 9, 1979, expanded the concept of a regulatory information system, and the second one, October 20, 1981, established Telecommunications Industry Advisory Group (TIAG) as a task force to develop a revised USOA. TIAG goal was to classify carriers in order to determine their accounting and record keeping requirements, focusing initially on designing the accounting system for the largest class of carriers and later scaling it for the smaller carriers.

FCC's second supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking and order; draft of a letter from OCCs Steering Committee representative Peter M. Andersen to the TIAG addressing the issue of the primary classification of plant asset accounts.

On April 16, 1979, FCC issued an order approving an agreement among several carriers regarding Exchange Network Facilities for Interstate Access (ENFIA). The ENFIA agreement established the temporary method to be used to compute charges of AT&T and GTE subsidiaries for certain interstate telecommunications services provided by carriers other than telephone companies (OCCs), including MCI, until a more comprehensive access compensation system be established. The BSOC (Bell System Operating Companies) 8 tariff specified the ENFIA agreement charges. On January 13, 1982, AT&T filed a new tariff BSOC 10 in case FCC doesn't extend the ENFIA agreement after three years of existence. Opposition to this motion from OCCs and arguments about the way how to calculate ENFIA charges constitute the case of docket 78-371.

AT&T's drafts of filings with FCC in the matter of ENFIA: joint motion and interim settlement agreement, with background material; FCC report on the agreement; MCI internal memoranda.

Joint motion and Interim settlement agreement [see F 1]; FCC order of April 16, 1979; FCC order regarding transmittal no. 37 of tariff 8.

Documents include letter to FCC Common Carrier Bureau Chief Gary M. Epstein from AT&T assistant vice president William R. Stump explaining new tariff amendments and conditional petition for certain emergency action in the event the Commission does not allow AT&T transmittal no. 53 to go into immediate effect.

FCC memorandum opinion and order extending ENFIA agreement and related correspondence; FCC meeting agenda of meeting on April 22, 1982 which included issue of amendments to the ENFIA tariff and Cox's handwritten notes taken at the meeting; MCI petition to reject the BSOC 10 Tariff and return to previous local exchange rates and other rates related documents, including concurring statements on FCC order for suspension for five months and investigation of BSOC 8 by Commissioners Anne P. Jones and Mimi Weyford Dawson.

FCC memorandum opinion and order in response to OCC's petitions to reject new tariff, implementing an investigation of the matter, April 30, 1982; preparatory material for Bert Roberts affidavit in support of the second motion to enforce the Execunet mandate; AT&T report on determination of charges under interim agreement; MCI and United States Transmission Systems, Inc. requests for confidential treatment of submitted data and AT&T opposition to these movements; initial comments of MCI to the FCC order of April 30, 1982, arguing the lawfulness of AT&T proposed way of calculating ENFIA 8 tariff.

Correspondence between United States Transmission Systems [USTS], Southern Pacific Communications Company [SPCC] and MCI on one side and Common Carrier Bureau and FCC on the other, regarding submission information on their billing process; OCC's and AT&T filing documents on the issue of calculation of proper billed minutes of use and separations amount in the ENFIA rate formula.

USTS and SPCC replies to AT&T comments on their reports on billed minutes in use stating that AT&T proposed an unjustified increase of ENFIA rates; MCI, USTS and SPCC correspondence with Common Carrier Bureau Chief Gary M. Epstein on filing adjustments for off-peak minutes discount rates; FCC memorandum opinion and order of September 29, 1982 ending investigation and finding the AT&T proposed rate increase unreasonable and recognizing the OCC proposed 40/60% adjustment for off-peak minutes. Also included is documentation on AT&T ex parte contacts in the docket.

AT&T and BSOC filing for revised ENFIA tariff under the FCC order of September 29, 1982 [transmittal no. 65]; AT&T and BSOC petition for expedited reconsideration of the FCC order of September 29, 1982 requiring to recalculate the off-peak discount; FCC action in docket case partially granting AT&T petition.