[1]Public Notice, "Common
Carrier Bureau Seeks Further Comment on Specific Questions on Universal Service
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking," DA 96-1078, released July 3, 1996.
[2] The responses to questions 34-48 ("Proxy Models")
and 56-68 ("Benchmark Cost Model," "Cost Proxy Model Proposed by Pacific
Telesis") were prepared in conjunction with NCTA's consultants at Economics and
Technology, Inc. ("ETI").