Form 477 Compliance

Form 477 Compliance

Federal Communications Commission
Friday, July 15, 2011
12:00 p.m.-12:30 p.m.
http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2011/db0707/DA-11-1175A1.pdf

The Federal Communications Commission’s Wireline Competition Bureau will hold a webinar to discuss broadband providers’ compliance with the
FCC's Form 477.

Form 477 is the FCC’s primary means of collecting data on broadband and voice subscriptions, making it an important input to FCC policies, including the Commission’s efforts to promote broadband availability to every American.

Given the importance of Form 477, the Wireline Competition Bureau is taking several measures to improve compliance with filing rules, including this seminar to ensure providers understand their mandatory reporting responsibilities. The webinar will reinforce the importance of Form 477 to Commission activities, provide an overview of basic filing requirements and discuss some of the common problems the Bureau encounters in filings currently. This webinar coincides with increased Commission efforts to ensure full compliance and to take enforcement actions to address non-compliance.

The webinar will be open to the public exclusively through the Internet, and the Events Page at http://www.fcc.gov/events will provide updated information about the webinar. Audio/video coverage of the meeting will be broadcast live with open captioning over the Internet from the FCC's web page at www.fcc.gov/live. The FCC’s webcast is free to the public. Those who watch the live video stream of the event may email event-related questions to livequestions@fcc.gov. Depending on the volume of questions and time constraints, the panel moderators will work to respond to as many questions as possible during the workshop.