§  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 paragraph (c) 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.

   [ 28 FR 13214 , Dec. 5, 1963, as amended at  62 FR 39778 , July 24, 1997;
    65 FR 19685 , Apr. 12, 2000;  78 FR 49149 , Aug. 13, 2013;  85 FR 838 , Jan.
   8, 2020]