§  43.01   Applicability.

   (a) The sections in this part include requirements which have been
   promulgated under authority of sections 211 and 219 of the
   Communications Act of 1934, as amended, with respect to the filing by
   communication common carriers and certain of their affiliates of
   periodic reports and certain other data, but do not include certain
   requirements relating to the filing of information with respect to
   specific services, accounting systems and other matters incorporated in
   other parts of this chapter.

   (b) Except as provided in paragraphs (c) and (d) of this section,
   carriers becoming subject to the provisions of the several sections of
   this part for the first time, shall, within thirty (30) days of
   becoming subject, file the required data as set forth in the various
   sections of this part.

   (c) Carriers becoming subject to the provisions of § § 43.21 and 43.43
   for the first time, because their annual operating revenues equal or
   exceed the indexed revenue threshold for a given year, shall begin
   collecting data pursuant to such provisions in the calendar year
   following the publication of that indexed revenue threshold in the
   Federal Register . With respect to such initial filing of reports by
   any carrier, pursuant to the provisions of § 43.21 (d), (e), (f), (g),
   (h), (i), (j), and (k), the carrier is to begin filing data for the
   calendar year following the publication of that indexed revenue
   threshold in the  Federal Register  by April 1 of the second calendar
   year following publication of that indexed revenue threshold in the
   Federal Register .

   (d) Common carriers subject to the provisions of § 43.11 shall file
   data semi-annually. Reports shall be filed each year on or before March
   1st (reporting data about their deployment of local exchange services
   as of December 31 of the prior year) and September 1st (reporting data
   about their deployment of local exchange services as of June 31 of the
   current year). Common carriers becoming subject to the provisions of
   § 43.11 for the first time within a calendar year shall file data for
   the reporting period in which they become eligible and semi-annually
   thereafter. Common carriers subject to the provisions of § 43.11 shall
   make an initial filing of the FCC Form 477 on May 15, 2000 (reporting
   data about their deployment of local exchange services as of December
   31, 1999).

   [ 28 FR 13214 , Dec. 5, 1963, as amended at  62 FR 39778 , July 24, 1997;
    65 FR 19685 , Apr. 12, 2000]