Next, a review was made of all tariffs on file and all cost support material for the specialized common carriers. Figure D-7 shows the number and types of common carriers regulated by the Agency. The established carriers, such as Western Union, usually have a separate tariff for each type of service category. The tariffs are numbered sequentially for each carrier. So, in locating a tariff, one must know the carrier, the tariff number, and title of the tariff. We have compiled indexes of the tariffs by carrier type. We divided the specific information that we wanted into two categories: service and financial. Carriers selected for further investigation were:

Western Union and the specialized common carriers (SCCs). The reason for this was that initially the Tariff staff had made the statement that the specialized carriers were the most likely entrants into the PMS markets. And, the review of all tariffs supported their theory. The specialized carriers were the only types--besides Western Union and AT&T--which offered a range of services which could be generally described as intercity communications channels of various bandwidths, types and data speeds designed to provide transmission of voice, data, and/or facsimile and other special/type,

dedicated services.

carriers' names;

Types of information found in the tariffs include: other carriers participating in the tariff; types of services--classes and subclasses of service when appropriate; rates; and points of service. The detail and comprehensibility of this information varies from tariff to tariff. In short, service and operation and rate information can be found in the tariffs, but it is difficult to work with. As long as a carrier conforms to certain basic requirements in format, it can use its own methods and terminology in writing the tariff. They don't all provide the same services-and the range of services is almost unlimited since the specialized carriers

*NOTE:

Although there are 383 tariffs on file, most of these radio carriers are NOT interstate and according to current law do not have to have a tariff on file. I assume that only approximately 20 or 30 of these tariffs are required and have had actual tariff activity during the last couple of years. So, this would drastically change the count to something like: (353) 372 Common Carriers who are required to file Tariffs with the FCC. Review of ALL CCB Tariff Filings as of August 1978 Conducted by UI Staff

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FIGURE D-7:

COUNT OF COMMON CARRIERS--AS OF AUGUST 1978