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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 166 / Tuesday, August 31, 2021 / Rules and Regulations The SBA category of Telecommunications Resellers is the closest NAICs code category for local 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. Mobile virtual network operators MVNOs are included in this industry. Under the SBAs size standard, such a business is small if it has 1,500 or fewer employees. U.S.
Census Bureau data from 2012 show that 1,341 firms provided resale services during that year. Of that number, all 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, 213
carriers have reported that they are engaged in the provision of local resale services. Of these, an estimated 211
have 1,500 or fewer employees and two have more than 1,500 employees.
Consequently, the Commission estimates that the majority of local resellers are small entities.
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. 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,
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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.
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 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.
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
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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.
Description of Projected Reporting, Recordkeeping, and Other Compliance Requirements for Small Entities The Third Report and Order adopts new rules requiring voice service providers to update their filings to the robocall mitigation database if the Bureau upholds an adverse service token revocation decision made by the Governance Authority. Some voice service providers required to amend their filings in this way may be small voice service providers.
Steps Taken To Minimize the Significant Economic Impact on Small Entities, and Significant Alternatives Considered 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;
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.
The Third Report and Order adopts rules establishing an oversight role for the Commission within the STIR/
SHAKEN governance systems token revocation process. Under our newly adopted rules entities, including small entities, that have their SPC token revoked by the private STIR/SHAKEN
Governance Authority may appeal that decision to the Commission.
Federal Rules That May Duplicate, Overlap, or Conflict With the Proposed Rules None.

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