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Instructions to the Telecommunications Reporting Worksheet, Form 499-A

Shared Costs of Local Number Portability. The shared costs of long-term number portability attributable to a

regional database shall be recovered from all telecommunications carriers providing telecommunications service in

that region. See 47 C.F.R. § 52.32.

Figure 3 summarizes which telecommunications carriers and service providers must file for particular purposes.

Figure 3: Which telecommunications providers must contribute for which purposes

Type of filer

TRS

NANPA

Universal

LNPA

Service

De minimis payphone aggregators that do not

also have telecommunications carrier revenues

Other payphone aggregators that do not also

have telecommunications carrier revenues

Telecommunications providers with no

telecommunications service revenues and that

are de minimis

Telecommunications providers with no

telecommunications service revenues and that

are not de minimis

Telecommunications carriers that provide

services only to other universal service

contributors

Telecommunications carriers that provide only

international servic es

Telecommunications carriers that provide only

intrastate services

Satellite carriers providing interstate

telecommunications services

De minimis telecommunications carriers

providing interstate telecommunications

All other telecommunications carriers

providing interstate telecommunications

This chart is provided for informational purposes only. It is not intended to be exhaustive, nor is it intended to serve as

legal guidance or precedent. Filers are instructed to consult the Commission’s rules and orders to determine whether

they must contribute to one or more of the mechanisms. See 47 C.F.R. §§ 52.17, 52.32, 54.706, 64.604.

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