Six major wireless carriers asked the Kan. Corporation Commission...
Six major wireless carriers asked the Kan. Corporation Commission to alter the method used to determine the intrastate revenue base on which wireless carriers are assessed contributions to the state universal service fund. They said Kan. is different from…
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other states in using customers’ billing addresses rather than place of primary use (PPU) as the basis for state universal service assessments. The carriers said PPU is the sourcing basis for taxes and fees throughout their service areas, and is used as the basis for state universal service assessments in most other states they operate in. The carriers said use of billing address in Kan. could put a Kan. wireless customer having multiple phones in a position of paying universal service fees in 2 or more states. The carriers said they incur significant expense in having to make Kan.-specific billing adjustments, and said basing future assessments on PPU rather than billing address would have a negligible effect on fund contributions.