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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 181 / Wednesday, September 22, 2021 / Rules and Regulations schedules with their bankers several days before they plan to make the wire transfer to allow sufficient time for the transfer to be initiated and completed before the deadline. Complete instructions for making wire payments are posted at https www.fcc.gov/
licensing-databases/fees/wire-transfer.
33. De Minimis Regulatory Fees, Section 9e2 Exemption. Under the de minimis rule, and pursuant to our analysis under section 9e2 of the Act, a regulatee is exempt from paying regulatory fees if the sum total of all of its annual regulatory fee liabilities is $1,000 or less for the fiscal year. The de minimis threshold applies only to filers of annual regulatory fees, not regulatory fees paid through multi-year filings, and it is not a permanent exemption. Each regulatee will need to reevaluate the total annual fee liability each fiscal year to determine whether it meets the de minimis exemption.
34. Standard Fee Calculations and Payment Dates. The Commission will accept fee payments made in advance of the window for the payment of regulatory fees. The responsibility for payment of fees by service category is as follows:
Media Services: Regulatory fees must be paid for initial construction permits that were granted on or before October 1, 2020 for AM/FM radio stations, VHF/UHF broadcast television stations, and satellite television stations.
Regulatory fees must be paid for all broadcast facility licenses granted on or before October 1, 2020.
Wireline Common Carrier Services: Regulatory fees must be paid for authorizations that were granted on or before October 1, 2020. In instances where a permit or license is transferred or assigned after October 1, 2020, responsibility for payment rests with the holder of the permit or license as of the fee due date. Audio bridging service providers are included in this category.
For Responsible Organizations RespOrgs that manage Toll Free Numbers TFN, regulatory fees should be paid on all working, assigned, and reserved toll free numbers as well as toll free numbers in any other status as defined in section 52.103 of the Commissions rules. The unit count should be based on toll free numbers managed by RespOrgs on or about December 31, 2020.
Wireless Services: CMRS cellular, mobile, and messaging services fees based on number of subscribers or telephone number count: Regulatory fees must be paid for authorizations that were granted on or before October 1, 2020. The number of subscribers, units, or telephone numbers on December 31,
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2020 will be used as the basis from which to calculate the fee payment. In instances where a permit or license is transferred or assigned after October 1, 2020, responsibility for payment rests with the holder of the permit or license as of the fee due date.
Wireless Services, Multi-year fees:
The first eight regulatory fee categories in our Schedule of Regulatory Fees pay small multi-year wireless regulatory fees. Entities pay these regulatory fees in advance for the entire amount period covered by the ten-year terms of their initial licenses, and pay regulatory fees again only when the license is renewed, or a new license is obtained. We include these fee categories in our rulemaking to publicize our estimates of the number of small multi-year wireless licenses that will be renewed or newly obtained in FY 2021.
Multichannel Video Programming Distributor Services cable television operators, CARS licensees, DBS, and IPTV: Regulatory fees must be paid for the number of basic cable television subscribers as of December 31, 2020.
Regulatory fees also must be paid for CARS licenses that were granted on or before October 1, 2020. In instances where a permit or license is transferred or assigned after October 1, 2020, responsibility for payment rests with the holder of the permit or license as of the fee due date. For providers of DBS
service and IPTV-based MVPDs, regulatory fees should be paid based on a subscriber count on or about December 31, 2020. In instances where a permit or license is transferred or assigned after October 1, 2020, responsibility for payment rests with the holder of the permit or license as of the fee due date.
International Services Earth Stations and Space Stations:
Regulatory fees must be paid for 1
earth stations and 2 geostationary orbit space stations and non-geostationary orbit satellite systems that were licensed and operational on or before October 1, 2020. In instances where a permit or license is transferred or assigned after October 1, 2020, responsibility for payment rests with the holder of the permit or license as of the fee due date.
International Services Submarine Cable Systems, Terrestrial and Satellite Services: Regulatory fees for submarine cable systems are to be paid on a per cable landing license basis based on lit circuit capacity as of December 31, 2020. Regulatory fees for terrestrial and satellite IBCs are to be paid based on active used or leased international bearer circuits as of December 31, 2020
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service to an end user or resale carrier.
When calculating the number of such active circuits, entities must include circuits used by themselves or their affiliates. For these purposes, active circuits include backup and redundant circuits as of December 31, 2020.
Whether circuits are used specifically for voice or data is not relevant for purposes of determining that they are active circuits. In instances where a permit or license is transferred or assigned after October 1, 2020, responsibility for payment rests with the holder of the permit or license as of the fee due date.
35. Commercial Mobile Radio Service CMRS and Mobile Services Assessments. The Commission compiled data from the Numbering Resource Utilization Forecast NRUF
report that is based on assigned telephone number subscriber counts that have been adjusted for porting to net Type 0 ports in and out. We have included non-geographic numbers in the calculation of the number of subscribers for each CMRS provider in Tables 2 and the CMRS regulatory fee rate in Table 3. CMRS provider regulatory fees are calculated and should be paid based on the inclusion of non-geographic numbers. CMRS
providers can adjust the total number of subscribers, if needed. This information of telephone numbers subscriber count will be posted on the Commissions electronic filing and payment system Fee Filer.
36. A carrier wishing to revise its telephone number subscriber count can do so by accessing Fee Filer and follow the prompts to revise their telephone number counts. Any revisions to the telephone number counts should be accompanied by an explanation or supporting documentation. The Commission will then review the revised count and supporting documentation and either approve or disapprove the submission in Fee Filer.
If the submission is disapproved, the Commission will contact the provider to afford the provider an opportunity to discuss its revised subscriber count and/
or provide additional supporting documentation. If we receive no response from the provider, or we do not reverse our initial disapproval of the providers revised count submission, the fee payment must be based on the number of subscribers listed initially in Fee Filer. Once the timeframe for revision has passed, the telephone number counts are final and are the basis upon which CMRS regulatory fees are to be paid. Providers can view their final telephone counts online in Fee
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