Fcc Form 499-A - Telecommunications Reporting Worksheet - 2003 Page 10
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34Instructions to the Telecommunications Reporting Worksheet, Form 499-A
Other revenues categories
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Notes for carriers that use the USOA
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G.
Block 5: Additional Revenue Breakout
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H.
Block 6: Certification
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IV.
Calculation of Contributions
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A.
Contribution Requirements
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B.
Contribution Bases
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V.
Reminders
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Figure 1:
Table to determine if a filer meets the de minimis standard for purposes
of universal service contribution
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Figure 2:
Filing schedule
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Figure 3:
Which telecommunications providers must contribute for which purposes
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Figure 4:
Contribution bases
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I.
Introduction
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As required under the Communications Act,
the Commission has established, in a series of separate proceedings,
procedures to finance interstate telecommunications relay services (TRS), universal service support mechanisms,
administration of the North American Numbering Plan (NANPA), and shared costs of local number portability
(LNPA).
To accomplish these Congressionally-directed objectives, contributions are collected from all
telecommunications carriers providing interstate telecommunications and certain other providers of
telecommunications. On July 14, 1999, the Commission amended its rules so that contributors to these mechanisms
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need only file one Telecommunications Reporting Worksheet for the purpose of determining their contribution(s).
This Worksheet sets forth the information that the filer must submit, so that the administrators of these mechanisms
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may calculate and assess contributions.
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47 U.S.C. §§ 151, 225, 251, 254.
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On March 9, 2001, the Commission modified its rules to base universal service contributions on information reported
on quarterly Telecommunications Reporting Worksheet filings, with an annual true-up based on information reported
on annual Telecommunications Reporting Worksheets. Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service, Petition for
Reconsideration filed by AT&T, CC Docket No. 96-45, Report and Order and Order on Reconsideration, 16 FCC Rcd
5748 (2001) (Quarterly Reporting Order). See also 1998 Biennial Regulatory Review -- Streamlined Contributor
Reporting Requirements Associated with Administration of Telecommunications Relay Services, North American
Numbering Plan, Local Number Portability, and Universal Service Support Mechanisms, CC Docket 98-171, Report
and Order, 14 FCC Rcd 16602 (1999) (Consolidated Reporting Order).
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In addition, common carriers use data filed on the Form 499-A to calculate their Common Carrier regulatory fees.
See Assessment and Collection of Regulatory Fees for Fiscal Year 2000, MD Docket No. 00-58, Report and Order,
15 FCC Rcd 14478, 14490 ¶ 28 (2000). Section 6003(a) of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993 (Public
Law 103-66) added Section 9(a) to the Communications Act, which authorizes the Commission to collect annual
regulatory fees to recover the annual costs of its enforcement, policy and rulemaking, user information, and
international activities. 47 U.S.C. § 159(a), (b)(1)(A), and (g).
Instructions -- Page 3
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