From: an old friend on Nov 14, 11:37 am

general question on the topic. are the reply coments at 1201 am 15Nove
or or 1201 16 Nov

The official dates for Comments on WT Docket 05-235 were
31 August 2005 to 31 October 2005.

The official dates for Replies to Comments on WT Docket
05-235 were 31 August 2005 to 14 November 2005.

All time periods refer to Eastern Time Zone. Apparently, and I
don't know for certain, the FCC will accept the time of day of
the time zone of the sender. ECFS lists only the DATE filed,
not the time it was filed. They do enter in copies of
letters-on-paper which were sent from within the official
dates but arrived at the Commission later, evident from the
FCC time-stamp on documents compared to the ECFS filing date.

Regardless, the official time period on WT Docket 05-235 is
now OVER. As of 3 PM EST on 15 November 2005 there were a
total of 3,783 filings made on WT Docket 05-235 between
15 July 2005 and 14 November 2005.

The ECFS will still accept electronic comments entered long
after the end of an official date period. WT Docket 98-143
on the NPRM proposing Restructuring was still getting input
from about 400 people up to nearly FOUR YEARS AFTER the end
of all Comments, and up to nearly THREE YEARS after Report &
Order 99-412 was released (end of December 1999) making the
Restructuring legal.