Ariz. Admin. Code § R14-2-A1204 - Funding of the AUSF
A. The
AUSF shall be funded in accordance with this Article by all telecommunications
service providers that interconnect to the public switched network. Within 30
days of the effective date of this Article, and thereafter on or before October
1 of each year, each telecommunications provider shall provide to the
Administrator a list of all other telecommunications providers that
interconnect to its facilities or network.
B. The AUSF shall be funded equally by toll
and local customers of the providers of telecommunications services, and shall
be assessed in the following manner:
1.
Category 1 - Providers of basic local exchange service, as discussed in
R14-2-1204(B)(1)(a), and other service providers as required under
R14-2-1204(B)(1)(a)(i)
or permitted under
R14-2-1204(B)(3)(b), shall be considered providers of Category 1 service.
a. One-half of the AUSF funding requirement
will be collected through Category 1 service providers. Category 1 AUSF
assessment will be based upon access lines and interconnecting trunks, and
assessed by providers of local switched access as either an access line or
interconnecting trunk surcharge. The "per access line" surcharge to be in place
during a given year will be calculated by the Administrator using the total
number of access lines and equivalent access lines deriving from
interconnecting trunks that were in service for all Category 1 service
providers on October 1 of the previous year. Access lines shall include
business and residence lines, public access lines, and other identifiable
access lines. All wireless providers including but not limited to paging and
other Commercial Mobile Radio Service providers, that interconnect to the
public switched network will contribute to the AUSF under the requirements of
Category 1. The number of interconnecting trunks obtained from the local access
provider by the wireless provider shall be utilized in conjunction with a
Conversion Factor to determine AUSF support from such wireless provider by
means of a surcharge on such interconnecting trunks. A wireless provider that
fails to contribute to the AUSF as required by this Article shall be subject to
termination of its interconnection arrangements pursuant to
R14-2-1214(C).
b. On or before
November 1 of each year, each Category 1 local switched access service provider
shall provide to the Administrator the number of access lines and number of
interconnecting trunks that were in service on October 1 of that year. The
Administrator will use these numbers together with the Conversion Factor in
calculating the per access line surcharge and per interconnecting trunk
surcharge for the following year. The Administrator will multiply the total
number of interconnecting trunks by the Conversion Factor to obtain an
equivalent number of access lines for the purpose of calculating the
surcharges.
2. Category
2 - Providers of intrastate toll service, or other service providers as
permitted under
R14-2-1204(B)(3), shall be considered providers of Category 2 service and shall be assessed AUSF
charges as follows:
a. One-half of the AUSF
funding requirement will be collected through Category 2 service providers. The
Category 2 AUSF assessment will be based on total Arizona intrastate toll
revenue, and assessed as a percent of revenue. The percent of revenue
assessment to be in place during a given year will be calculated by the
Administrator using the annual Arizona intrastate revenue for all Category 2
service providers for the previous year.
b. On or before November 1 of each year, each
Category 2 service provider shall report to the Administrator the total Arizona
intrastate revenue collected between August 1 of the current year and August 1
of the previous year. The Administrator will use this revenue so reported to
calculate the AUSF assessment rate for the following year.
3. New telecommunications service providers.
a. Telecommunications providers that begin
providing basic local exchange service after the effective date of this Article
shall be assessed AUSF charges pursuant to
R14-2-1204(B)(1) .
Telecommunications providers that begin providing toll service after the
effective date of this Article shall be assessed AUSF charges pursuant to
R14-2-1204(B)(2).
b. All other telecommunications service
providers that interconnect to the public switched network and begin providing
telecommunications service after the effective date of this Article, shall
choose to be considered either a Category 1, Category 2, or both Category 1 and
Category 2 service provider. Such election shall be made in writing to the
Administrator within 30 days of beginning to provide telecommunications service
in Arizona, with a copy to the Director of Utilities. Written concurrence of
the Director of Utilities must be received by the Administrator for such
selection to be effective. Such selection will be irrevocable for a period of
at least three years.
4.
A telecommunications provider that provides both Category 1 and Category 2
services shall be assessed AUSF charges pursuant to both
R14-2-1204(B)(1)
and R14-2-1204(B)(2).
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