FCC 52.33 Revised as of October 1, 2007
Goto Year:2006 |
2008
Sec. 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 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]
Effective Date Notes: 1. At 63 FR 35161 , June 29, 1998, Sec. 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, Sec. 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.
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