Sprint asked the FCC to reconsider a Dec. 9 bureau order revising...
Sprint asked the FCC to reconsider a Dec. 9 bureau order revising instructions for Form 499-A, which carriers use to report revenue subject to universal service contributions. The new instructions don’t permit carriers to make any revisions to forms…
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more than 12 months after the forms originally were submitted if the revision would result in a decrease in regulatory fees or universal service contributions. Sprint asked the bureau to instead impose a 3-year limit on revising forms, which it said would “mirror the framework” used by the IRS. Sprint said it “wholeheartedly agrees with the objective of ensuring the stability and sufficiency” of the Universal Service Fund, but doesn’t think 12 months is sufficient for correcting errors that might be discovered in prior reports: “Moreover, it is unfair to adopt a twelve-month cut-off period for correcting errors that work in the contributor’s favor while continuing to place contributors under an obligation of indefinite duration to file revisions that would have the effect of increasing the filing party’s contributions.” Qwest raised that issue in its reconsideration request (CD Jan 11 p9).