Fcc Form 499-A - Telecommunications Reporting Worksheet

Instructions to the Telecommunications Reporting Worksheet, Form 499-A

FCC Form 499, February 2003

Approved by OMB 3060-0855

Estimated Average Burden Hours Per Response: 11.5 Hours

Telecommunications Reporting Worksheet, FCC Form 499-A

Instructions for Completing the

Worksheet for Filing Contributions

to Telecommunications Relay Service,

Universal Service, Number Administration,

and Local Number Portability Support Mechanisms

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NOTICE:

Section 52.17 of the Federal Communications Commission's rules provides that all

telecommunications carriers in the United States shall contribute on a competitively neutral basis to meet the

costs of establishing numbering administration, and directs that contributions shall be calculated and paid in

accordance with this Telecommunications Reporting Worksheet (FCC Form 499-A). 47 C.F.R. § 52.17.

Section 52.32 provides that the local number portability administrators shall recover the shared costs of

long-term number portability from all telecommunications carriers. 47 C.F.R. § 52.32. Sections 54.706,

54.711, and 54.713 require all telecommunications carriers providing interstate telecommunications

services, providers of interstate telecommunications that offer interstate telecommunications for a fee on a

non-common carrier basis, and payphone providers that are aggregators to contribute to universal service

and file this Worksheet once a year and the Telecommunications Reporting Worksheet (FCC Form 499-Q)

four times a year. 47 C.F.R. §§ 54.706, 54.711, 54.713. Section 64.604 requires that every common carrier

providing interstate telecommunications services contribute to the Telecommunications Relay Services

(TRS) Fund on the basis of its relative share of interstate end-user telecommunications revenues, with the

calculation based on information provided in this Worksheet. 47 C.F.R. § 64.604(c)(5)(iii)(B). Section

64.1195 requires all telecommunications carriers to register using the FCC Form 499-A. 47 C.F.R. §

64.1195(a).

This collection of information stems from the Commission's authority under Sections 225, 251, 254, and

258 of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended (Communications Act or Act), 47 U.S.C. §§ 225, 251,

254, and 258. The data in the Worksheet will be used to calculate contributions to the universal service

support mechanisms, the telecommunications relay services support mechanism, the cost recovery

mechanism for numbering administration, and the cost recovery mechanism for shared costs of long-term

number portability. Selected information provided in the Worksheet will be made available to the public in

a manner consistent with the Commission's rules.

We have estimated that each response to this collection of information will take, on average, 11.5 hours.

Our estimate includes the time to read the instructions, look through existing records, gather and maintain

the required data, and actually complete and review the form or response. If you have any comments on this

estimate, or how we can improve the collection and reduce the burden it causes you, please write the Federal

Communications Commission, AMD-PERM, Washington, D.C. 20554, Paperwork Reduction Project

(3060-0855). We also will accept your comments via the Internet if you send them to jbherman@fcc.gov.

Please DO NOT SEND COMPLETED WORKSHEETS TO THIS ADDRESS.

Remember -- You are not required to respond to a collection of information sponsored by the Federal

government, and the government may not conduct or sponsor this collection, unless it displays a currently

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