Fcc Form 499-A - Telecommunications Reporting Worksheet

Instructions to the Telecommunications Reporting Worksheet, Form 499-A

cases, the filer should enter the good-faith estimates of the percentage of interstate and the percentage of

international revenues in columns (b) and (c), respectively. A reporting entity may not submit a good-faith estimate

lower than one percent unless the correct figure should be $0. Information supporting good-faith estimates must be

made available to either the FCC or to the administrators upon request. Using the good-faith estimate, calculate the

amount of interstate revenues as the amount in column (a) times the percentage in column (b), and calculate the

amount of international revenues as the amount in column (a) times the percentage in column (c). For convenience,

calculated interstate and international revenue amounts that are greater than one thousand dollars may be rounded to

the nearest thousand dollars. Please enter zero dollars in columns (d) and (e) if, and only if, there were no interstate

revenues for the line for the reporting period.

Note for common carriers providing international telecommunications services:

except in very limited

circumstances, such as receipts from foreign carriers for calls that are reoriginated and reported as U.S. billed traffic,

the total revenues identified as international on Line 419(e) should match the total U.S. billed revenues that will be

reported on July 31 of each year pursuant to 47 C.F.R. § 43.61. International private line circuits connect a U.S.

point to a foreign point. Circuits within the United States that connect a customer to an international circuit should

be reported as interstate. Circuits that connect foreign points should be reported on Line (418).

Note that under interim guidelines,

the FCC provides the following safe harbor percentages of interstate revenues

associated with Line (309), Line (409) and Line (410):

15% of cellular and broadband PCS telecommunications revenues billed between January 1,

2002 and September 30, 2002

28.5% of cellular and broadband PCS telecommunications revenues billed between October

1, 2002 and December 31, 2002

12% of paging revenues

1% of analog SMR dispatch revenues

These safe harbor percentages may not be applied to universal service pass-through charges, fixed local service

revenues, or toll service charges. All filers must report the actual amount of interstate and international revenues

for these services. For example, toll charges for itemized calls appearing on mobile telephone customer bills

should be reported as intrastate, interstate or international based on the origination and termination points of the

calls.

Wireless telecommunications providers that choose to avail themselves of these safe harbor percentages for

interstate revenues may assume that the FCC will not find it necessary to review or question the data underlying

their reported percentages. Beginning with revenues reported for October 1, 2002 through December 31, 2002, all

affiliated wireless telecommunications providers must make a single election, each quarter, whether to report

actual revenues or to use the revised safe harbor within the same safe harbor category.

So, for example, if in a

Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service, Memorandum Opinion and Order and Further Notice of Proposed

Rulemaking, CC Docket No. 96-45, 13 FCC Rcd 21252, 21258-60 (1998); Federal-State Joint Board on Universal

Service, 1998 Biennial Regulatory Review - Streamlined Contributor Reporting Requirements Associated with

Administration of Telecommunications Relay Service, North American Numbering Plan, Local Number Portability,

and Universal Service Support Mechanisms, Telecommunications Services for Individuals with Hearing and Speech

Disabilities, and the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990, Administration of the North American Numbering

Plan and North American Numbering Plan Cost Recovery Contribution Factor and Fund Size, Number Resource

Optimization, Telephone Number Portability, Truth-in-Billing and Billing Format, Report and Order and Second

Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, CC Docket Nos. 96-45, 98-171, 90-571, 92-237, 99-200, 95-116, 98-170,

FCC 02-329 (rel. Dec. 13, 2002) (Contribution Methodology Order).

See Federal-State Joint Board on Universal Service, Order and Order on Reconsideration, CC Docket No. 96-45,

FCC 03-20 (rel. Jan. 30, 2003). Note: Wireless telecommunications providers are “affiliated” for purposes of

making the single election whether to report actual interstate telecommunications revenues or use the applicable

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