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Telecommunications Provider Locator This report lists the contact information and the types of services sold by 5,679 telecommunications providers operating as of December 31, 2000. All information in this report is drawn from providers’ April 1, 2001 filing of the Telecommunications Reporting Worksheet (FCC Form 499-A). This report can be used by customers to identify and locate telecommunications providers, by telecommunications providers to identify and locate others in the industry, and by equipment vendors to identify potential customers. Virtually all providers of telecommunications must file FCC Form 499-A each year. 1 These forms are not filed directly with the FCC but rather with the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), which serves as the data collection agent. The worksheets were due April 1, 2001, but some providers filed late or updated their filing after that date. By October 1, 2001, the database contained contact information and revenue data from 5,679 filers. Information from filings received after October 1 and from filings that were incomplete has been excluded from the tables. Although many telecommunications providers offer an extensive menu of services, each filer is asked on Line 105 of FCC Form 499-A to select the single category that best describes its telecommunications business. Table 1 lists the categories from which the filer can choose and the number of filers that selected each. Note that in some cases, filer selections were changed based on supplemental information. Table 2 shows the number of filers that reported revenues in each of ten broad service categories. Generally, filers earn revenues by providing telecommunications and other services as a carrier’s carrier and/or directly to end users. In these two broad areas, filers can derive revenues from the following specific services: local, mobile, payphone, operator services and prepaid calling cards, and/or other toll. Since many filers report revenues from the provision of more than one service, the sum of the numbers in Table 2 is greater than the number of individual filers. Table 2 also shows the number of filers required to contribute a portion of their interstate enduser revenues to maintain universal service. Most telecommunications providers are required to contribute to the universal service fund, but there are exceptions. Section 54.706 of the Commission’s rules requires 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. The primary reason only 2,124 of the 5,679 filers actually contribute to the universal service fund is that no contribution is required if a filer’s total 1 There are certain exceptions. Providers that offer telecommunications for a fee exclusively on a non-common carrier basis are not required to file if their total annual contribution to universal service would be less than $10,000. Government entities that purchase telecommunications services in bulk on their own behalf, public safety and local government entities licensed under Subpart B of Part 90 of the Commission’s rules, entities providing interstate telecommunications exclusively to government or public safety entities, broadcasters and various non-profit entities are not required to file. Finally, systems integrators that derive less than 5% of their systems integration revenues from the resale of telecommunications and entities that provide services only to themselves or to commonly owned affiliates need not file. 1
annual contribution would be less than $10,000. While many telecommunications providers do not contribute to universal service for this reason, they are generally required to support numbering administration, local number portability, and telecommunications relay services. 2 In addition, Table 2 indicates whether filers are active or inactive. The universe of filers contains all those that provided telecommunications during the year 2000. Those telecommunications providers still operating as of October 1, 2001 are listed as active. Filers are listed as inactive if they have merged, declared bankruptcy, or ceased to operate for some other reason. Table 3 lists each of the 5,679 FCC Form 499-A filers alphabetically by legal name. For each filer, Table 3 shows contact information including legal name, address of corporate headquarters, telephone number for customer inquiries, principal communications business, and holding company. This table also shows for each filer the specific services from which they derive revenues: local, mobile, payphone, operator services and prepaid calling cards, and/or other toll. It is important to note that some revenue flags in Table 3 have been suppressed to maintain confidentiality. For this reason, the sum of the flags in Table 3 may not equal the totals presented in Table 2. Finally, the table shows whether a filer currently contributes to the universal service support mechanism and whether the filer was active as of October 1, 2001. Table 3 is available in Microsoft Excel 97 format from the FCC-State Link Internet website at www.fcc.gov/ccb/stats. Further, the data from FCC Form 499-A filings can be interactively searched online at gullfoss2.fcc.gov/cib/form499/499a.cfm. Note that the information in Table 3 reflects the information reported by filers, with some corrections made by the FCC Form 499-A data collection agent and by FCC staff. Please contact the data collection agent at (973) 560-4400 or Form499@neca.org to suggest corrections or to identify telecommunications providers that neglected to file. 2 Contributions to North American Numbering Plan Administration (NANPA), Local Number Portability (LNP), and Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS) are required regardless of the expected annual amount. There is no de minimis exemption. Note also that NANPA, LNP, and TRS each draw contributions from a larger pool of providers than does universal service. Specifically, all telecommunications carriers in the United States must contribute to meet the costs of NANPA (47 CFR §52.17), and all telecommunications carriers that provide service in areas covered by the regional LNP database must contribute to meet the costs of LNP (47 CFR §52.32). Thus, only those providers that are not carriers are not required to contribute. Cost recovery for TRS is slightly different. Every carrier providing interstate services must contribute to the TRS Fund (47 CFR §64.604(c)(5)(iii)(A)). In this case, providers that are not carriers, and carriers that do not provide interstate services are not required to contribute. See Figure 3 of the Instructions to the Telecommunications Reporting Worksheet, FCC Form 499-A for more details. 2
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