{"abstract":"This document affirms the Commission's commitment to ensuring that high quality telephone service must be available to all Americans. In the underlying Order, the Commission established rules to combat extensive problems with successfully completing calls to rural areas, and created a framework to improve the ability to monitor call problems and take appropriate enforcement action. In the Order on Reconsideration, the Commission denies several petitions for reconsideration that, if granted, would impair the Commission's ability to monitor, and take enforcement action against, call completion problems. The Commission does, however, grant one petition for reconsideration because the Commission finds that modifying its original determination will significantly lower providers' compliance costs and burdens without impairing the Commission's ability to obtain reliable and extensive information about rural call completion problems.","action":"Final rule.","agencies":[{"raw_name":"FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION","name":"Federal Communications Commission","id":161,"url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/federal-communications-commission","json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/agencies/161","parent_id":null,"slug":"federal-communications-commission"}],"body_html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/html/2014/12/10/2014-28898.html","cfr_references":[{"chapter":null,"citation_url":null,"part":64,"title":47}],"citation":"79 FR 73227","comment_url":null,"comments_close_on":null,"correction_of":null,"corrections":[],"dates":"Effective January 9, 2015, except for amendments to Sec. Sec. 64.2101, 64.2103, and 64.2105, which contain new or modified information collection requirements that will not be effective until approved by the Office of Management and Budget. The Federal Communications Commission will publish a document in the Federal Register announcing the effective date.","disposition_notes":null,"docket_ids":["WC Docket No. 13-39","FCC 14-175"],"dockets":[],"document_number":"2014-28898","effective_on":"2015-01-09","end_page":73237,"executive_order_notes":null,"executive_order_number":null,"full_text_xml_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/xml/2014/12/10/2014-28898.xml","html_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2014/12/10/2014-28898/rural-call-completion","images":{},"images_metadata":{},"json_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/api/v1/documents/2014-28898?publication_date=2014-12-10","mods_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/metadata/granule/FR-2014-12-10/2014-28898/mods.xml","not_received_for_publication":null,"page_length":11,"page_views":{"count":239,"last_updated":"2026-08-24 18:15:04 -0400"},"pdf_url":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2014-12-10/pdf/2014-28898.pdf","presidential_document_number":null,"proclamation_number":null,"public_inspection_pdf_url":"https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2014-28898.pdf?1418132928","publication_date":"2014-12-10","raw_text_url":"https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/full_text/text/2014/12/10/2014-28898.txt","regulation_id_number_info":{},"regulation_id_numbers":[],"regulations_dot_gov_info":{"checked_regulationsdotgov_at":"2015-01-12T19:20:58Z"},"regulations_dot_gov_url":null,"significant":null,"signing_date":null,"start_page":73227,"subtype":null,"title":"Rural Call Completion","toc_doc":"Rural Call Completion","toc_subject":null,"topics":[],"type":"Rule","volume":79}