Addendum outlining what has been changed on FCC Forms 499-A and 499-Q and Instructions

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Federal Communications Commission

Wireline Competition Bureau

OMB Control Number 3060-0855

Addendum: Explanation of “Non-Substantive” Changes to FCC Form 499-A and FCC Form 499-Q

**Other Changes (Continued)

499-A:

(Page 1) add “interconnected VoIP providers” to Notice.
(Page 10) Add Commission filing address and note traffic study filing dates in Figure 2.
(Page 12) Update record keeping policy to reflect five year retention period adopted in Comprehensive Review of the Universal Service Fund Management, Administration, and Oversight, WC Docket No. 05-195, Report and Order, 22 FCC Rcd 16372 (2007).
(Page 23) Add language defining “toll service” as adopted in Universal Service Contribution Methodology, Petition for Declaratory Ruling of CTIA – The Wireless Association on Universal Service Contribution Obligations, Petition for Declaratory Ruling of Cingular Wireless, LLC, WC Docket No. 06-122, Declaratory Order, FCC 07-231, para. 5 (rel. Jan 24, 2008).
(Page 24) Add Commission filing address for traffic study and delete language requiring preapproval of traffic studies for interconnected VoIP providers (as determined in Vonage Holdings Corp. v. FCC, 589 F.3d 1232, 1243-44 (2007)).
(Page 26-27) Delete language that is no longer applicable concerning revenue data for wireline broadband internet access service.
(Page 33) add note describing proxy estimates for interconnected VoIP providers.
(Page 35 and 36) add interconnected VoIP providers to contribution definitions in 499-A Instructions.

In addition, footnotes were updated to provide cites to recent Commission’s decisions affecting filer’s obligations: Footnote 3 (regulatory fees); Footnotes 13 and 19 (record retention policy); Footnote 37 and 46 (definition of toll service); Footnote 39 (traffic studies methodology).

499-Q

(Page 4, 10) Update record keeping policy to reflect five year retention period adopted in Comprehensive Review of the Universal Service Fund Management, Administration, and Oversight, WC Docket No. 05-195, Report and Order, 22 FCC Rcd 16372 (2007).
(Pages 8-9) Add Commission filing address and note traffic study filing dates in Figure 2.
(Page 17) Add language defining “toll service” as adopted in Universal Service Contribution Methodology, Petition for Declaratory Ruling of CTIA – The Wireless Association on Universal Service Contribution Obligations, Petition for Declaratory Ruling of Cingular Wireless, LLC, WC Docket No. 06-122, Declaratory Order, FCC 07-231, para. 5 (rel. Jan 24, 2008).
(Page 18) Add language concerning treatment of toll revenue for purposes of developing a traffic study as adopted in Universal Service Contribution Methodology, Petition for Declaratory Ruling of CTIA – The Wireless Association on Universal Service Contribution Obligations, Petition for Declaratory Ruling of Cingular Wireless, LLC, WC Docket No. 06-122, Declaratory Order, FCC 07-231, para. 5 (rel. Jan 24, 2008).
(Page 18) Add Commission filing address for traffic study.