AT&T and other price-cap carriers will escape Automated Reporting Management Information System requirements if commissioners vote to approve a draft order now circulating on the eighth floor, an FCC official said. The draft grants AT&T's forbearance petition, due for a vote Sept. 6, and extends that relief to Verizon, Qwest, Embarq, Frontier, Citizens and Windstream, we're told. The draft would give AT&T much but not all of what it sought, the official said without elaborating. nnThe other price-cap carriers, which asked for varying levels of ARMIS relief, explicitly would get the ARMIS relief AT&T asked for, the official said. The draft wouldn't give the other carriers forbearance relief from cost-assignment rules, sought by several since the FCC gave it to AT&T in April. In recent weeks, the AT&T ARMIS petition drew little opposition from competitive local exchange carriers and others historically favoring stronger ARMIS requirements. CompTel, which condemned the forbearance petition in a meeting at the FCC late last month, declined to comment.
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