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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 30 / Wednesday, February 17, 2021 / Proposed Rules
Category is Telecommunications Resellers. The Telecommunications Resellers industry comprises establishments engaged in purchasing access and network capacity from owners and operators of telecommunications networks and reselling wired and wireless telecommunications services except satellite to businesses and households.
Establishments in this industry resell telecommunications; they do not operate transmission facilities and infrastructure. MVNOs are included in this industry. The SBA has developed a small business size standard for the category of Telecommunications Resellers. Under that size standard, such a business is small if it has 1,500 or fewer employees. 2012 Census Bureau data show that 1,341 firms provided resale services during that year. Of that number, 1,341 operated with fewer than 1,000 employees. Thus, under this category and the associated small business size standard, the majority of these resellers can be considered small entities. According to Commission data, 881 carriers have reported that they are engaged in the provision of toll resale services. Of this total, an estimated 857
have 1,500 or fewer employees.
Consequently, the Commission estimates that the majority of toll resellers are small entities.
34. Prepaid Calling Card Providers.
Neither the Commission nor the SBA
has developed a small business definition specifically for prepaid calling card providers. The most appropriate NAICS code-based category for defining prepaid calling card providers is Telecommunications Resellers. This industry comprises establishments engaged in purchasing access and network capacity from owners and operators of telecommunications networks and reselling wired and wireless telecommunications services except satellite to businesses and households.
Establishments in this industry resell telecommunications; they do not operate transmission facilities and infrastructure. Mobile virtual networks operators MVNOs are included in this industry. Under the applicable SBA size standard, such a business is small if it has 1,500 or fewer employees. U.S.
Census Bureau data for 2012 show that 1,341 firms provided resale services during that year. Of that number, 1,341
operated with fewer than 1,000
employees. Thus, under this category and the associated small business size standard, the majority of these prepaid calling card providers can be considered small entities. According to Commission
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data, 193 carriers have reported that they are engaged in the provision of prepaid calling cards. All 193 carriers have 1,500 or fewer employees.
Consequently, the Commission estimates that the majority of prepaid calling card providers are small entities that may be affected by these rules.
4. Other Entities 35. All Other Telecommunications.
The All Other Telecommunications category is comprised of establishments primarily engaged in providing specialized telecommunications services, such as satellite tracking, communications telemetry, and radar station operation. This industry also includes establishments primarily engaged in providing satellite terminal stations and associated facilities connected with one or more terrestrial systems and capable of transmitting telecommunications to, and receiving telecommunications from, satellite systems. Establishments providing internet services or voice over internet protocol VoIP services via clientsupplied telecommunications connections are also included in this industry. The SBA has developed a small business size standard for All Other Telecommunications, which consists of all such firms with annual receipts of $35 million or less. For this category, U.S. Census Bureau data for 2012 show that there were 1,442 firms that operated for the entire year. Of those firms, a total of 1,400 had annual receipts less than $25 million and 15
firms had annual receipts of $25 million to $49,999,999. Thus, the Commission estimates that the majority of All Other Telecommunications firms potentially affected by our action can be considered small.
D. Description of Projected Reporting, Recordkeeping, and Other Compliance Requirements for Small Entities 36. None.
E. Steps Taken To Minimize the Significant Economic Impact on Small Entities, and Significant Alternatives Considered 37. The RFA requires an agency to describe any significant alternatives that it has considered in reaching its proposed approach, which may include the following four alternatives among others: 1 The establishment of differing compliance or reporting requirements or timetables that take into account the resources available to small entities; 2 the clarification, consolidation, or simplification of compliance and reporting requirements under the rules for such small entities;

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3 the use of performance rather than design standards; and 4 an exemption from coverage of the rule, or any part thereof, for such small entities.
38. The Second Further Notice invites comment on the proposal to establish an oversight role for the Commission within the STIR/SHAKEN governance systems token revocation process. The Second Further Notice proposes specific processes for the appeals process and seeks comment on alternatives to these proposed processes.
F. Federal Rules That May Duplicate, Overlap, or Conflict With the Proposed Rules 39. None.
40. Paperwork Reduction Act. This document contains proposed new information collection requirements.
The Commission, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork burdens, invites the general public and the Office of Management and Budget OMB to comment on the information collection requirements contained in this document, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 10413. In addition, pursuant to the Small Business Paperwork Relief Act of 2002, Public Law 107198, see 44 U.S.C. 3506c4, we seek specific comment on how we might further reduce the information collection burden for small business concerns with fewer than 25 employees.
41. Contact person. For further information about this proceeding, please contact Connor Ferraro, FCC
Wireline Competition Bureau, Competition Policy Division at 202
4181322 or connor.ferraro@fcc.gov.
V. Ordering Clauses 42. It is ordered, pursuant to sections 4i, 4j, 201, 227e, 227b, 251e, and 303r, of the Act, 47 U.S.C. 154i, 154j, 201, 227e, 227b, 251e, and 303r, that that this Second Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking is adopted.
43. It is further ordered that the Commissions Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau, Reference Information Center, shall send a copy of this Second Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, including the Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analysis, to the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business Administration.
List of Subjects in 47 CFR Part 64
Carrier equipment, Communications common carriers, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, Telecommunications, Telephone.

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