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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 52 / Friday, March 19, 2021 / Rules and Regulations
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that 1,341 firms provided resale services during that year.305 Of that number, all operated with fewer than 1,000
employees.306 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, 213
carriers have reported that they are engaged in the provision of local resale services.307 Of these, an estimated 211
have 1,500 or fewer employees and two have more than 1,500 employees.308
Consequently, the Commission estimates that the majority of local resellers are small entities.
18. Toll Resellers. The Commission has not developed a definition for Toll Resellers. The closest NAICS Code 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.309 The SBA has developed a small business size standard for the category of Telecommunications Resellers.310
Under that size standard, such a business is small if it has 1,500 or fewer employees.311 2012 Census Bureau data show that 1,341 firms provided resale services during that year.312 Of that 305 See U.S. Census Bureau, 2012 Economic Census of the United States, Table No.
EC1251SSSZ5, Information: Subject SeriesEstab & Firm Size: Employment Size of Firms: 2012
NAICS Code 517911, https factfinder.census.gov/
bkmk/table/1.0/en/ECN/2012_US/51SSSZ5//
naics517911.
306 Id. Available census data does not provide a more precise estimate of the number of firms that have employment of 1,500 or fewer employees; the largest category provided is for firms with 1000
employees or more.
307 See Trends in Telephone Service, Federal Communications Commission, Wireline Competition Bureau, Industry Analysis and Technology Division at Table 5.3 Sept. 2010
Trends in Telephone Service.
308 See id.
309 U.S. Census Bureau, 2017 NAICS Definition, 517911 Telecommunications Resellers, https
www.census.gov/cgi-bin/sssd/naics/naicsrch?
code=517911&search=2017%20NAICS%20Search.
310 13 CFR 121.201, NAICS code 517911.
311 Id.
312 See U.S. Census Bureau, 2012 Economic Census of the United States, Table No.
EC1251SSSZ5, Information: Subject SeriesEstab & Firm Size: Employment Size of Firms: 2012
NAICS Code 517911, https factfinder.census.gov/
bkmk/table/1.0/en/ECN/2012_US/51SSSZ5//
naics517911.

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number, 1,341 operated with fewer than 1,000 employees.313 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.314 Of this total, an estimated 857 have 1,500 or fewer employees.315
Consequently, the Commission estimates that the majority of toll resellers are small entities. The closest NAICS Code 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.316 The SBA has developed a small business size standard for the category of Telecommunications Resellers.317
Under that size standard, such a business is small if it has 1,500 or fewer employees.318 2012 Census Bureau data show that 1,341 firms provided resale services during that year.319 Of that number, 1,341 operated with fewer than 1,000 employees.320 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 313 Id. Available census data does not provide a more precise estimate of the number of firms that have employment of 1,500 or fewer employees; the largest category provided is for firms with 1000
employees or more.
314 See Trends in Telephone Service, Federal Communications Commission, Wireline Competition Bureau, Industry Analysis and Technology Division at Table 5.3 Sept. 2010
Trends in Telephone Service.
315 See id.
316 U.S. Census Bureau, 2017 NAICS Definition, 517911 Telecommunications Resellers, https
www.census.gov/cgi-bin/sssd/naics/naicsrch?
code=517911&search=2017%20NAICS%20Search.
317 13 CFR 121.201, NAICS code 517911.
318 Id.
319 See U.S. Census Bureau, 2012 Economic Census of the United States, Table No.
EC1251SSSZ5, Information: Subject SeriesEstab & Firm Size: Employment Size of Firms: 2012
NAICS Code 517911, https factfinder.census.gov/
bkmk/table/1.0/en/ECN/2012_US/51SSSZ5//
naics517911.
320 Id. Available census data does not provide a more precise estimate of the number of firms that have employment of 1,500 or fewer employees; the largest category provided is for firms with 1000
employees or more.

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services.321 Of this total, an estimated 857 have 1,500 or fewer employees.322
Consequently, the Commission estimates that the majority of toll resellers are small entities.
19. Other Toll Carriers. Neither the Commission nor the SBA has developed a size standard for small businesses specifically applicable to Other Toll Carriers. This category includes toll carriers that do not fall within the categories of interexchange carriers, operator service providers, prepaid calling card providers, satellite service carriers, or toll resellers. The closest applicable NAICS code category is for Wired Telecommunications Carriers, as defined in paragraph 6 of this IRFA.
Under that size standard, such a business is small if it has 1,500 or fewer employees.323 U.S. Census Bureau data for 2012 show that there were 3,117
firms that operated that year.324 Of this total, 3,083 operated with fewer than 1,000 employees.325 Thus, under this size standard, the majority of firms in this industry can be considered small.
According to Commission data, 284
companies reported that their primary telecommunications service activity was the provision of other toll carriage.326 Of these, an estimated 279 have 1,500 or fewer employees.327 Consequently, the Commission estimates that most Other Toll Carriers are small entities.
20. Wireless Telecommunications Carriers except Satellite. This industry comprises establishments engaged in operating and maintaining switching and transmission facilities to provide communications via the airwaves.
Establishments in this industry have spectrum licenses and provide services using that spectrum, such as cellular services, paging services, wireless internet access, and wireless video services.328 The appropriate size 321 See Trends in Telephone Service, Federal Communications Commission, Wireline Competition Bureau, Industry Analysis and Technology Division at Table 5.3 Sept. 2010
Trends in Telephone Service.
322 See id.
323 See 13 CFR 120.201, NAICS Code 517311
previously 517110.
324 See U.S. Census Bureau, 2012 Economic Census of the United States, Table No.
EC1251SSSZ5, Information: Subject SeriesEstab & Firm Size: Employment Size of Firms: 2012
517110 Wired Telecommunications Carriers.
https factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/
ECN/2012_US/51SSSZ5//naics517110.
325 Id.
326 Trends in Telephone Service, at Table 5.3.
327 Id.
328 U.S. Census Bureau, 2012 NAICS Definitions, 517210 Wireless Telecommunications Carriers Except Satellite. See https factfinder.
census.gov/faces/affhelp/jsf/pages/metadata.xhtml?
lang=en&type=ib&id=ib.en./
ECN.NAICS2012.517210.

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