§ 52.32   Allocation of the shared costs of long-term number portability.

   (a) The local number portability administrator, as defined in § 52.21(h), of
   each regional database, as defined in § 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 § 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 § 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.

   (e)  For  the  purposes  of this section, the term “telecommunications
   carrier” shall include interconnected VoIP providers as that term is defined
   in § 52.21(h); and “telecommunications service” shall include “interconnected
   VoIP service” as that term is defined in 47 CFR 9.3.

   [ 63 FR 35160 , June 29, 1998, as amended at  64 FR 41331 , July 30, 1999;  67 FR 13226 , Mar. 21, 2002;  73 FR 9481 , Feb. 21, 2008]

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