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FCC 52.33
Revised as of October 1, 2011
Goto Year:2010 |
2012
§ 52.33 Recovery of carrier-specific costs directly related to providing
long-term number portability.
(a) Incumbent local exchange carriers may recover their
carrier-specific costs directly related to providing long-term number
portability by establishing in tariffs filed with the Federal
Communications Commission a monthly number-portability charge, as
specified in paragraph (a)(1) of this section, a number portability
query-service charge, as specified in paragraph (a)(2) of this section,
and a monthly number-portability query/administration charge, as
specified in paragraph (a)(3) of this section.
(1) The monthly number-portability charge may take effect no earlier
than February 1, 1999, on a date the incumbent local exchange carrier
selects, and may end no later than 5 five years after the incumbent
local exchange carrier's monthly number-portability charge takes
effect.
(i) An incumbent local exchange carrier may assess each end user it
serves in the 100 largest metropolitan statistical areas, and each end
user it serves from a number-portability-capable switch outside the 100
largest metropolitan statistical areas, one monthly number-portability
charge per line except that:
(A) One PBX trunk shall receive nine monthly number-portability
charges.
(B) One PRI ISDN line shall receive five monthly number-portability
charges.
(C) Lifeline Assistance Program customers shall not receive the monthly
number-portability charge.
(ii) An incumbent local exchange carrier may assess on carriers that
purchase the incumbent local exchange carrier's switching ports as
unbundled network elements under section 251 of the Communications Act,
and/or Feature Group A access lines, and resellers of the incumbent
local exchange carrier's local service, the same charges as described
in paragraph (a)(1)(i) of this section, as if the incumbent local
exchange carrier were serving those carriers' end users.
(iii) An incumbent local exchange carrier may not assess a monthly
number-portability charge for local loops carriers purchase as
unbundled network elements under section 251.
(iv) The incumbent local exchange carrier shall levelize the monthly
number-portability charge over five years by setting a rate for the
charge at which the present value of the revenue recovered by the
charge does not exceed the present value of the cost being recovered,
using a discount rate equal to the rate of return on investment which
the Commission has prescribed for interstate access services pursuant
to Part 65 of the Commission's Rules.
(2) The number portability query-service charge may recover only
carrier-specific costs directly related to providing long-term number
portability that the incumbent local exchange carrier incurs to provide
long-term number portability query service to carriers on a prearranged
and default basis.
(3) An incumbent local exchange carrier serving an area outside the 100
largest metropolitan statistical areas that is not number-portability
capable but that participates in an extended area service calling plan
with any one of the 100 largest metropolitan statistical areas or with
an adjacent number portability-capable local exchange carrier may
assess each end user it serves one monthly number-portability
query/administration charge per line to recover the costs of queries,
as specified in paragraph (a)(2) of this section, and carrier-specific
costs directly related to the carrier's allocated share of the regional
local number portability administrator's costs, except that per-line
monthly number-portability query/administration charges shall be
assigned as specified in paragraph (a)(1) of this section with respect
to monthly number-portability charges.
(i) Such incumbent local exchange carriers may assess a separate
monthly number-portability charge as specified in paragraph (a)(1) of
this section but such charge may recover only the costs incurred to
implement number portability functionality and shall not include costs
recovered through the monthly number-portability query/administration
charge.
(ii) The monthly number-portability query/administration charge may end
no later than five years after the incumbent local exchange carrier's
monthly number-portability query/administration charge takes effect.
The monthly number-portability query/administration charge may be
collected over a different five-year period than the monthly
number-portability charge. These five-year periods may run either
consecutively or concurrently, in whole or in part.
(b) All interconnected VoIP providers and telecommunications carriers
other than incumbent local exchange carriers may recover their number
portability costs in any manner consistent with applicable state and
federal laws and regulations.
[ 63 FR 35161 , June 29, 1998, as amended at 67 FR 40620 , June 13, 2002;
73 FR 9481 , Feb. 21, 2008]
Effective Date Notes: 1. At 63 FR 35161 , June 29, 1998, § 52.33 was
added. Paragraph (a)(1) contains information collection requirements
and will not become effective until approval has been given by the
Office of Management and Budget.
2. At 67 FR 40620 , June 13, 2002, § 52.33 was amended by adding
paragraph (a)(3), which contains information collection requirements
and will not become effective until approval has been given by the
Office of Management and Budget.
Goto Section: 52.32 | 52.34
Goto Year: 2010 |
2012
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