PUBLIC NOTICE Federal Communications Commission 445 12th St., S.W. Washington, D.C. 20554 News Media Information 202 / 418-0500 Internet: http://www.fcc.gov TTY: 1-888-835-5322 DA 10-924 Released: May 24, 2010 PROPOSED NORTH AMERICAN NUMBERING PLAN ADMINISTRATION FUND SIZE ESTIMATE AND CONTRIBUTION FACTOR FOR JULY 2010 THROUGH JUNE 2011 CC Docket No. 92-237 In this Public Notice, the Wireline Competition Bureau announces the proposed North American Numbering Plan (NANP) Administration fund size estimate and contribution factor for the fiscal year July 1, 2010 through June 30, 2011 (Fiscal Year 2010). Proper funding of the NANP Administration ensures that consumers will continue to have access to the numbering resources essential to the provision of new services and technologies. If the Commission takes no action regarding the Fiscal Year 2010 fund size estimate and contribution factor proposed herein within the 14-day period following release of this Public Notice, the fund size estimate and the contribution factor shall be deemed approved by the Commission. Calculating the NANP Administration Fund Size Estimate and Contribution Factor Under section 52.17 of the Commission’s rules, all telecommunications carriers in the United States are required to contribute on a competitively neutral basis to meet the costs of numbering administration.1 Pursuant to its contract with the Commission and section 52.16(a) of the Commission’s rules, the NANP billing and collection agent, Welch LLP (Welch), is responsible for calculating, assessing, billing, and collecting payments for numbering administration functions and for distributing funds to the entities that support these functions (e.g., the North American Numbering Plan Administrator (NANPA) and the Pooling Administrator (PA)).2 Consistent with this function, Welch develops the annual projected numbering administration costs and fund size estimate for the upcoming fiscal year annually. To develop these figures, Welch allocates a portion of the funding requirement to all NANP countries.3 Specifically, it calculates a Canadian contribution amount, a Caribbean contribution amount, and a U.S. contribution amount. Welch then develops a contribution factor for U.S. telecommunications carriers designed to collect the projected U.S. contribution. Our rules provide that contributions shall be 1 47 C.F.R. § 52.17. For purposes of this section, the term “telecommunications carrier” or “carrier” includes interconnected VoIP providers as that term is defined in section 52.12(h), 47 C.F.R. § 52.12(h). 2 47 C.F.R. § 52.16(a). 3 The NANP member countries are Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Canada, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the United States (including American Samoa, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands). 2 the product of the carrier’s end-user telecommunications revenues for the prior calendar year and the contribution factor, and such contribution shall be no less than twenty-five dollars ($25).4 Billing and Collection Agent Projection of the Fund Size Estimate and Contribution Factor On May 10, 2010, Welch filed a fund size estimate and contribution factor for recovering the cost of NANP Administration for Fiscal Year 2010, in accordance with section 52.16(a) of the Commission’s rules.5 Welch proposed a funding requirement of $5,497,882 for Fiscal Year 2010, and a contribution factor of 0.0000181.6 The funding requirement contemplates a Canadian contribution of $80,036 a Caribbean contribution of $16,403, a contribution by U.S. carriers of $4,034,718, and the application of $1,366,725 from the accumulated surplus from the prior fiscal year.7 Effective Date of the Fund Size Estimate and Contribution Factor If the Commission takes no action regarding the proposed fund size estimate and contribution factor within the 14-day period following release of this Public Notice, the fund size estimate and the contribution factor shall be deemed approved by the Commission, and become effective for Fiscal Year 2010. For further information, contact Marilyn Jones in the Competition Policy Division, Wireline Competition Bureau, at (202) 418-2357. -FCC- 4 47 C.F.R. § 52.17(a). 5 47 C.F.R. § 52.16(a); Letter from Faith Marcotte, Partner, Welch LLP, to Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary, Federal Communications Commission, CC Docket No. 92-237 (filed May 10, 2010) (Fiscal Year 2010 Contribution Factor Filing). 6 See Fiscal Year 2010 Contribution Factor Filing at 2. 7 See id. at 2-3.