On April 2, 2012, the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) announced that completed FCC Forms 499-A that are filed before Tuesday, April 10, 2012 would be considered to be filed on time, due to difficulties with USAC’s electronic filing system. They may be filed either electronically or in hard copy. The original filing deadline was April 2, 2012. (See March 29 Client Alert)

FCC Form 499-A reports annual revenue to the USAC and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), as well as other fund administrators. It must be filed by all interstate telecommunications carriers, interconnected VoIP providers, providers of interstate telecommunications that offer service for a fee on a non-common carrier basis (including stand-alone audio bridging companies), and payphone providers that are aggregators.

In addition, non-interconnected VoIP providers are now required to file this form for the assessment of fees to support the Telecommunications Relay System (TRS).

The revenues reported on Form 499-A provide the basis for true-up of a company’s Universal Service contributions and serve as the basis for assessing annual fees for the TRS, Local Number Portability (LNP) fund, the North American Numbering Plan Administration fund, and the FCC’s annual fee.

More information about this extension can be found here.

For further information, please contact Katherine Barker Marshall or any of our attorneys in the Telecom Group.