The Universal Service Fund “is not materially increased by requiring...
The Universal Service Fund “is not materially increased by requiring very small companies to contribute,” the American Association of Paging Carriers said in a telephone conference with Wireline Bureau staff. The association “pointed out that the exemption level of $10,000…
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has remained unchanged since the USF was implemented as a result of the Telecommunications Act of 1996,” according to an ex parte released Thursday in docket 09-229. “AAPC further noted that some of its members include small companies with paging service revenues of less than $1 million,” the group said. “Using the 12% ’safe harbor’ interstate allocation allowed by the Commission, the contribution factor of 5.9% for the first quarter of 2000 exempted carriers from contributing to USF until they generated approximately $1.425 million in total service revenues. However, using the ’safe harbor’ allocation during the current quarter, the contribution factor of 14.4% requires contributions from carriers with as little as $590,000 in total service revenues. Similarly, the highest contribution factor to date (15.5%, during the first quarter of 2011) required carriers using the ’safe harbor’ allocation to contribute to USF with as little as $538,000 in total service revenues."