FCC Issues Proposed NANPA Fund Size, Contribution Factor
The FCC Wireline Bureau announced the North American Numbering Plan Administration fund size estimate and contribution factor for fiscal year July 1, 2015, through September 30, 2016, in a public notice Monday in docket 92-237. The fund covers costs of…
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the NANPA, which helps ensure consumers have access to numbering resources, the notice said. Welch LLC, the NANP billing and collection agent, on May 4 proposed a NANPA funding requirement of $8.176 million and a telecom industry contribution factor of 0.0000387 of revenue, with $6.65 million coming from U.S. providers, $162,000 from Canadian and Caribbean providers, and $1.36 million from a surplus in the prior fiscal year. If the FCC takes no further action within 14 days of the notice's release, the fund size and contribution factor are deemed approved.