FCC 52.32 Revised as of October 1, 2005
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Sec. 52.32 Allocation of the shared costs of long-term number portability.
(a) The local number portability administrator, as defined in Sec. 52.21(h), of
each regional database, as defined in Sec. 52.21(1), shall recover the shared
costs of long-term number portability attributable to that regional database
from all telecommunications carriers providing telecommunications service in
areas that regional database serves. Pursuant to its duties under Sec. 52.26,
the local number portability administrator shall collect sufficient revenues
to fund the operation of the regional database by:
(1) Assessing a $100 yearly contribution on each telecommunications carrier
identified in paragraph (a) introductory text that has no intrastate,
interstate, or international end-user telecommunications revenue derived
from providing telecommunications service in the areas that regional
database serves, and
(2) Assessing on each of the other telecommunications carriers providing
telecommunications service in areas that regional database serves, a charge
that recovers the remaining shared costs of long-term number portability
attributable to that regional database in proportion to the ratio of:
(i) The sum of the intrastate, interstate, and international end-user
telecommunications revenues that such telecommunications carrier derives
from providing telecommunications service in the areas that regional
database serves, ii) to the sum of the intrastate, interstate, and
international end-user telecommunications revenues that all
telecommunications carriers derive from providing telecommunications service
in the areas that regional database serves.
(b) All telecommunications carriers providing service in the United States
shall complete and submit a “Telecommunications Reporting Worksheet” (as
published by the Commission in the Federal Register), which sets forth the
information needed to calculate contributions referred to in paragraph (a)
of this section. The worksheet shall be certified to by an officer of the
contributor, and subject to verification by the Commission or the
administrator at the discretion of the Commission. The Chief of the Wireline
Competition Bureau may waive, reduce, modify, or eliminate contributor
reporting requirements that prove unnecessary and require additional
reporting requirements that the Bureau deems necessary to the sound and
efficient administration of long-term number portability.
(c) Local number portability administrators shall keep all data obtained
from contributors confidential and shall not disclose such data in
company-specific form unless directed to do so by the Commission. Subject to
any restrictions imposed by the Chief of the Wireline Competition Bureau,
the local number portability administrators may share data obtained from
carriers with the administrators of the universal service support mechanism
(See 47 CFR 54.701 of this chapter), the TRS Fund (See 47 CFR
64.604(c)(4)(iii)(H) of this chapter), and the North American Numbering Plan
cost recovery (See 47 CFR 52.16). The local number portability
administrators shall keep confidential all data obtained from other
administrators. The administrators shall use such data, from carriers or
administrators, only for purposes of administering local number portability.
The Commission shall have access to all data reported to the Administrator.
Contributors may make requests for Commission nondisclosure of
company-specific revenue information under Sec. 0.459 of this chapter by so
indicating on the Telecommunications Reporting Worksheet at the time that
the subject data are submitted. The Commission shall make all decisions
regarding nondisclosure of company-specific information.
(d) Once a telecommunications carrier has been allocated, pursuant to
paragraph (a)(1) or (a)(2) of this section, its portion of the shared costs
of long-term number portability attributable to a regional database, the
carrier shall treat that portion as a carrier-specific cost directly related
to providing number portability.
[ 63 FR 35160 , June 29, 1998, as amended at 64 FR 41331 , July 30, 1999; 67 FR 13226 , Mar. 21, 2002]
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