[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 47, Volume 3]
[Revised as of October 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 47CFR52.32]

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                       TITLE 47--TELECOMMUNICATION
 
        CHAPTER I--FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION (CONTINUED)
 
PART 52_NUMBERING--Table of Contents
 
                      Subpart C_Number Portability
 
Sec. 52.32  Allocation of the shared costs of long-term number 
portability.

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

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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 Sec. 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.

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