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Local Reseller -- provides local exchange or fixed telecommunications services by reselling services of

other carriers.

Operator Service Provider (OSP) -- serves customers needing the assistance of an operator to

complete calls, or needing alternate billing arrangements such as collect calling.

Payphone Service Provider -- provides customers access to telephone networks through payphone

equipment, special teleconference rooms, etc. Payphone service providers also are referred to as

payphone aggregators.

Prepaid Card -- provides prepaid calling card services by selling prepaid calling cards to the public or

to retailers. Prepaid card providers typically resell the toll service of other carriers and determine the

price of the service by setting the price of the card and controlling the number of minutes that can be

used by the card.

Private Service Provider -- offers telecommunications to others for a fee on a non-common carrier

basis. This would include a company that offers excess capacity on a private system that it uses

primarily for internal purposes. This category does not include Specialized Mobile Radio operators.

Shared-Tenant Service Provider /Building LEC -- manages or owns a multi-tenant location that

provides telecommunications services or facilities to the tenants for a fee.

Toll Reseller -- provides long distance telecommunications services primarily by reselling the long

distance telecommunications services of other carriers.

Other Local and Other Toll Service Providers -- other providers of local exchange or toll services,

including private service providers (which offer telecommunications services to others and includes

companies that offer excess capacity on a private system that is used primarily for internal purposes) and

VoIP Toll providers, which use IP technology to facilitate calls that originate and terminate on the public

switched network and which undergo no net protocol conversion.

In its FY 1996 Regulatory Fee Report and Order, the Commission amended its rule regarding the

Telecommunications Relay Service Fund administrator to permit the National Exchange Carrier

Association (NECA) to process regulatory fees on behalf of its pooling exchange carriers and to submit

their consolidated fees to our lockbox bank in a single payment instrument. However, we remind

entities subject to regulatory fee payment that the regulatee, not an agent such as NECA, is responsible

for ensuring that payment is made, and that there is a penalty for not submitting the entire fee in a timely

manner.

Fee Payment Amount and Payment Type Code for ITSPs

Fee Payment Amount: $0.00375 per dollar of subject revenue

Payment Type Code: 1172

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