Schedule

The following schedule is adopted for this phase.

October 22, 2004

SBC-CA provides its calculation of true-up amounts to each carrier and files the same with the Commission, along with a motion for confidential treatment of these true-up amounts since carriers may be concerned that this billing information could reveal competitively sensitive information.

November 1, 2004

SBC-CA files its proposal for:

· Payment of true-up amounts, including any payment options it is offering,

· Criteria the Commission should use to determine if carriers will be competitively harmed or undergo a financial hardship,

· How to resolve disputes over true-up calculations,

· Whether the true-up calculations should incorporate any adjustment to the shared and common cost markup and how that would be calculated. Given that the Ninth Circuit's order is the subject of a pending rehearing request, SBC-CA should brief whether the Commission should order payment of the true-up less the contested 21% markup, pending finality of the Ninth Circuit's order.

November 19, 2004

Carriers and other interested parties may respond to SBC-CA's proposal, and offer their own proposals for:

· Payment options

· Criteria the Commission should use to determine if carriers will be competitively harmed or undergo a financial hardship

· Mitigation to reduce competitive harm or financial hardship

· How disputes over calculations should be resolved

· Whether the true-up should incorporate any adjustment to the shared and common cost markup and how that would be calculated. Given that the Ninth Circuit's order is the subject of a pending rehearing request, parties should brief whether the Commission should order payment of the true-up less the contested 21% markup, pending finality of the Ninth Circuit's order.

December 8, 2004

Parties may file rebuttal comments.

Submittal of this phase.

February 1, 2005

Commission issues draft decision on issues on this phase.

Therefore, IT IS RULED that the scope and schedule described herein is established for the "True-up" phase of this proceeding.

Dated October 18, 2004, at San Francisco, California.

		/s/ Dorothy J. Duda
		Dorothy J. Duda Administrative Law Judge

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I certify that I have by mail, and by electronic mail to the parties to which an electronic mail address has been provided, this day served a true copy of the original attached Administrative Law Judge's Ruling Setting Scope and Schedule for True-Up Phase on all parties of record in this proceeding or their attorneys of record.

Dated October 18, 2004, at San Francisco, California.

/s/ Antonina V. Swansen

Antonina V. Swansen

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