[2 ]See Vanguard Cellular Systems, Inc. Comments at 5.

[3 ]Id.

[4 ]See PCIA Comments at 12-13; AirTouch Communications, Inc. Comments at 11.

[5 ]NPRM, para. 126.

[6 ]See Western Wireless Comments at 16; 360° Communications Company Comments at 9.

[7 ]Report and Order (Assessment and Collection of Regulatory Fees for Fiscal Year 1995), 10 FCC Rcd. 13,512, 13,558 (1995) (basing regulatory fees on gross interstate revenues, rather than usage or the number of subscribers, equitably distributed regulatory fees) [hereinafter Regulatory Fees Order].

[8 ]Id. at 13,559 (subtracting payments to other carriers in determining regulatory fee payments for resellers).

[9 ]Id. at 13,558-59.

[10 ]Contra Western Wireless Comments at 15 (suggesting that all interstate carriers should contribute).

[11 ]See PCIA Comments at 6-9.

[12 ]47 U.S.C. [[section]] 254(b)(4); see NPRM, para. 10.

[13 ]Regulatory Fees Order, 10 FCC Rcd. at 13,544.

[14 ]Id.

[15 ]CTIA Comments at 3-4; Vanguard Cellular Comments at 8-9.

[16 ]PCIA Comments at 15-16; Western Wireless Comments at 12-13; FCC Fields Panelist Comments on Universal Service Options, RCR, at 8, April 22, 1996 (statement of Charles Townsend, CEO of Atlantic Cellular); see AirTouch Communications, Inc. Comments at 7-8, 12; NPRM, paras. 35-36.

[17 ]NPRM, para. 35.

[18 ]See Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and Notice of Inquiry (Amendment of Part 36 of the Commission's Rules and Establishment of a Joint Board), 10 FCC Rcd. 12,309, 12,342 (1995).

[19 ]47 U.S.C. [[section]] 214(e); see NPRM, para. 35 (asking whether competitive bidding would be consistent with Section 214(e)).

[20 ]360° Communications Comments at 7-8; see NPRM, para. 33.

[21 ]360° Communications Comments at 2-3; NPRM, para. 16.

[22 ]See NPRM, para. 17.

[23 ]See id. para. 23.

[24 ]Additional Comment Sought: Commission Seeks Additional Comment in Wireless Enhanced 911 Rulemaking Proceeding, Public Notice, DA 96-198, released Feb. 16, 1996.

[25 ]NPRM, para. 17; but see National Emergency Number Association Comments at 3 (requesting E911 to be eligible for federal universal service support).

[26 ]Western Wireless Comments at 9.

[27 ]47 U.S.C. [[section]] 254(b)(3).

[28 ]PCIA Comments at 9-12; AirTouch Comments at 2-4; see CTIA Comments at 4-9.