[1] Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service, CC Docket No. 96-45 (March 8, 1996) (Notice of Proposed Rulemaking) (NPRM). 360° submitted opening comments in this proceeding on April 12, 1996.

[2] See NPRM, [[paragraph]] 16.

[3] See id., [[paragraph]] 17.

[4] Id., [[paragraph]] 17; see new Section 214(e)(1) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended.

[5] NPRM, [[paragraph]] 17.

[6] New Section 332(c)(8) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended.