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Telecommunications Provider Locator November 2001 Katie Rangos Kenneth Lynch Industry Analysis Division Common Carrier Bureau This report is available for reference in the FCC’s Information Center at 445 12th Street, S.W., Courtyard Level. Copies may be purchased by calling Qualex International, Portals II, 445 12th Street SW, Room CY-B402, Washington, DC 20554, telephone 202-863-2893, facsimile 202-863-2898, or via e-mail [email protected]. The report can also be downloaded [file names: LOCAT01.ZIP, LOCAT01.PDF] from the FCC-State Link Internet site at www.fcc.gov/ccb/stats. Telecommunications Provider Locator This report lists the contact information and the types of services sold by 5,679 telecommunications providers operating as of December 31, 2000. All information in this report is drawn from providers’ April 1, 2001 filing of the Telecommunications Reporting Worksheet (FCC Form 499-A). This report can be used by customers to identify and locate telecommunications providers, by telecommunications providers to identify and locate others in the industry, and by equipment vendors to identify potential customers. Virtually all providers of telecommunications must file FCC Form 499-A each year.1 These forms are not filed directly with the FCC but rather with the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), which serves as the data collection agent. The worksheets were due April 1, 2001, but some providers filed late or updated their filing after that date. By October 1, 2001, the database contained contact information and revenue data from 5,679 filers. Information from filings received after October 1 and from filings that were incomplete has been excluded from the tables. Although many telecommunications providers offer an extensive menu of services, each filer is asked on Line 105 of FCC Form 499-A to select the single category that best describes its telecommunications business. Table 1 lists the categories from which the filer can choose and the number of filers that selected each. Note that in some cases, filer selections were changed based on supplemental information. Table 2 shows the number of filers that reported revenues in each of ten broad service categories. Generally, filers earn revenues by providing telecommunications and other services as a carrier’s carrier and/or directly to end users. In these two broad areas, filers can derive revenues from the following specific services: local, mobile, payphone, operator services and prepaid calling cards, and/or other toll. Since many filers report revenues from the provision of more than one service, the sum of the numbers in Table 2 is greater than the number of individual filers. Table 2 also shows the number of filers required to contribute a portion of their interstate end- user revenues to maintain universal service. Most telecommunications providers are required to contribute to the universal service fund, but there are exceptions. Section 54.706 of the Commission’s rules requires all telecommunications carriers providing interstate telecommunications services, providers of interstate telecommunications that offer interstate telecommunications for a fee on a non-common carrier basis, and payphone providers that are aggregators to contribute to universal service. The primary reason only 2,124 of the 5,679 filers actually contribute to the universal service fund is that no contribution is required if a filer’s total 1 There are certain exceptions. Providers that offer telecommunications for a fee exclusively on a non-common carrier basis are not required to file if their total annual contribution to universal service would be less than $10,000. Government entities that purchase telecommunications services in bulk on their own behalf, public safety and local government entities licensed under Subpart B of Part 90 of the Commission’s rules, entities providing interstate telecommunications exclusively to government or public safety entities, broadcasters and various non-profit entities are not required to file. Finally, systems integrators that derive less than 5% of their systems integration revenues from the resale of telecommunications and entities that provide services only to themselves or to commonly owned affiliates need not file. 1 annual contribution would be less than $10,000. While many telecommunications providers do not contribute to universal service for this reason, they are generally required to support numbering administration, local number portability, and telecommunications relay services.2 In addition, Table 2 indicates whether filers are active or inactive. The universe of filers contains all those that provided telecommunications during the year 2000. Those telecommunications providers still operating as of October 1, 2001 are listed as active. Filers are listed as inactive if they have merged, declared bankruptcy, or ceased to operate for some other reason. Table 3 lists each of the 5,679 FCC Form 499-A filers alphabetically by legal name. For each filer, Table 3 shows contact information including legal name, address of corporate headquarters, telephone number for customer inquiries, principal communications business, and holding company. This table also shows for each filer the specific services from which they derive revenues: local, mobile, payphone, operator services and prepaid calling cards, and/or other toll. It is important to note that some revenue flags in Table 3 have been suppressed to maintain confidentiality. For this reason, the sum of the flags in Table 3 may not equal the totals presented in Table 2. Finally, the table shows whether a filer currently contributes to the universal service support mechanism and whether the filer was active as of October 1, 2001. Table 3 is available in Microsoft Excel 97 format from the FCC-State Link Internet website at www.fcc.gov/ccb/stats. Further, the data from FCC Form 499-A filings can be interactively searched online at gullfoss2.fcc.gov/cib/form499/499a.cfm. Note that the information in Table 3 reflects the information reported by filers, with some corrections made by the FCC Form 499-A data collection agent and by FCC staff. Please contact the data collection agent at (973) 560-4400 or [email protected] to suggest corrections or to identify telecommunications providers that neglected to file. 2 Contributions to North American Numbering Plan Administration (NANPA), Local Number Portability (LNP), and Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS) are required regardless of the expected annual amount. There is no de minimis exemption. Note also that NANPA, LNP, and TRS each draw contributions from a larger pool of providers than does universal service. Specifically, all telecommunications carriers in the United States must contribute to meet the costs of NANPA (47 CFR §52.17), and all telecommunications carriers that provide service in areas covered by the regional LNP database must contribute to meet the costs of LNP (47 CFR §52.32). Thus, only those providers that are not carriers are not required to contribute. Cost recovery for TRS is slightly different. Every carrier providing interstate services must contribute to the TRS Fund (47 CFR §64.604(c)(5)(iii)(A)). In this case, providers that are not carriers, and carriers that do not provide interstate services are not required to contribute. See Figure 3 of the Instructions to the Telecommunications Reporting Worksheet, FCC Form 499-A for more details. 2 Table 1 Telecommunications Providers Filing FCC Form 499-A by Type of Filer 1 Number Type of Filer of Filers Incumbent Local Exchange Carriers (ILECs) 1,329 Competitive Access Providers (CAPs) and Competitive Local Exchange Carriers 532 (CLECs) Local Resellers 134 Shared Tenant Service Providers 17 Other Local Exchange Carriers 28 Total: All Competitors of ILECs 711 Total: Fixed Local Service Providers 2,040 Payphone Providers 936 Private Service Providers 14 Wireless Telephony Including Cellular, Personal Communications Service (PCS) 858 and Specialized Mobile Radio (SMR) Telephony Carriers Paging & Messaging Service 576 Specialized Mobile Radio (SMR) Dispatch 289 Wireless Data Service Providers 6 Other Mobile Service Providers 32 Total: Wireless Service Providers 1,761 Interexchange Carriers (IXCs) 229 Operator Service Providers (OSPs) 22 Prepaid Calling Card Providers 32 Satellite Service Carriers 31 Toll Resellers 576 Other Toll Carriers 38 Total: Toll Service Providers 928 Total: All Filers 5,679 1 This table represents a summary of the principal communications business types selected by filers on Line 105 of FCC Form 499-A. Each filer is instructed to choose the single type that best describes the reporting entity. 3 Table 2 Telecommunications Providers Filing FCC Form 499-A by Type of Service Reported Number Type of Service Reported of Filers Services Provided as Carrier’s Carrier Local 1,851 Mobile 663 Payphone 926 Operator Service and Prepaid Calling Card 110 Other Toll 748 Total 4,298 Services Provided to End Users Local 1,985 Mobile 1,602 Payphone 1,217 Operator Service and Prepaid Calling Card 776 Other Toll 2,152 Total 7,732 Universal Service Contributor 2,124 Active 5,595 4 Types of Service Carrier's Table 3: Telecommunications Providers Reporting Revenue on FCC Form 499-A Filed April 1, 2001 Carrier End User Principal Communications Filer ID Legal Name of Filer Mailing Address Contact Number Business Affiliation or Joint Management Local Mobile Payphone OSP & Card Other Toll Local Mobile Payphone OSP & Card Other Toll USF Contributor Active 820256 @Communications, Inc. 3000 Arendell St., Suite 111, Morehead City, NC 28557-3277 (252) 240-2335 CAP/CLEC 1 819122 @Link Networks, Inc. 361 Centennial Pkwy., Suite 250, Louisville, CO 80027 (888) 375-9750 CAP/CLEC @Link Holdings, Inc. 1 1 1 1 813111 @Track Communications, Inc. 1155 Kas Dr., Richardson, TX 75081 (972) 301-2000 Other Mobile 1 1 819698 01 Communications, Inc. 770 L St., Suite 960, Sacarmento, CA 95814 (888) 444-1111 Other Local 1 1 820218 1-800-Reconex, Inc. P.O. Box 40, Hubbard, OR 97032 (800) 275-8223 Local Reseller 1 1 805626 2 M Communications, Inc.