Instructions For Fcc Form 499-Q - Telecommunications Reporting Worksheet

Introduction

As required under the Communications Act of 1934, as amended,

the Commission has established

procedures to finance universal service support mechanisms. To accomplish this Congressionally-directed

objective, contributions are collected from telecommunications carriers providing interstate

telecommunications and certain other providers of interstate telecommunications (including interconnected

VoIP providers). This Worksheet sets forth information that the contributor must submit, so that the

administrator of the universal service support mechanisms may calculate and assess contributions.

II.

Filing Requirements and General Instructions

Who Must File

All providers of interstate telecommunications within the United States,

with very limited exceptions, must

file an FCC Form 499-Q Telecommunications Reporting Worksheet.

For purposes of determining whether an entity provides telecommunications, the term "telecommunications"

means the transmission, between or among points specified by the user, of information of the user's

choosing, without change in the form or content of the information as sent and received. For the purpose of

filing, the term "interstate telecommunications" includes, but is not limited to, the following types of

services: wireless telephony, including cellular and personal communications services (PCS); paging and

messaging services; dispatch services; mobile radio services;

operator services; access to interexchange

service; business data services; wide area telecommunications services (WATS); subscriber toll-free

services; 900 services; message telephone services (MTS); private line; telex; telegraph; video services;

satellite services; resale services; frame relay, asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) and Multi-Protocol Label

Switching (MPLS); audio bridging services;

and interconnected VoIP services.

Note, for example, that all

47 U.S.C. §§ 151 et seq.

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 No. 98-171, Report and Order, 14 FCC Rcd 16602 (1999) (Consolidated Reporting

Order).

For this purpose, the United States is defined as the contiguous United States, Alaska, Hawaii, American Samoa,

Baker Island, Guam, Howland Island, Jarvis Island, Johnston Atoll, Kingman Reef, Midway Island, Navassa Island,

the Northern Mariana Islands, Palmyra, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Wake Island.

Section 254(d) applies not only to “every telecommunications carrier that provides interstate telecommunications

services” but also to certain “other provider[s] of interstate telecommunications.” 47 U.S.C. § 254(d) (emphasis

added). For more information on these terms, see 47 U.S.C. §§ 153(50), (51); Federal-State Joint Board on

Universal Service, CC Docket No. 96-45, Report and Order, 12 FCC Rcd 8776 (1997) (Universal Service Order);

Universal Service Contribution Methodology et al., WC Docket No. 06-122 et al., Report and Order and Notice of

Proposed Rulemaking, 21 FCC Rcd 7518 (2006) (2006 Contribution Methodology Reform Order).

See Request for Review by Waterway Communication System, LLC and Mobex Network Services, LLC of a

Decision of the Universal Service Administrator, WC Docket No. 06-122, Order, 23 FCC Rcd 12836 (Wireline

Comp. Bur. 2008).

See Request for Review by InterCall, Inc. of Decision of Universal Service Administrator, CC Docket No. 96-45,

Order, 23 FCC Rcd 10731, 10737-38, para. 22 (2008), petition for reconsideration denied, Petitions for

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